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Author : Richard W. Wise
Publisher : Brunswick House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0972822321
Finally the real truth about how master jewellers, gemmologists and major auction houses value diamonds and colored gemstones.
Author : Richard W. Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gems
ISBN : CHI:70324888
As the sub-title suggests, this is the consumer's guide to precious gemstones. Divided into two parts: In plain non-technical language, Part I redefines preciousness and gently guides the reader toward a real understanding of those criteria that make a gemstone. Part II contains a series of individual essays that apply the criteria of connoisseurship to 35 of today's most important gemstones. The book covers precious stones old and new including diamond, pearl, tourmaline, sapphire, chalcedony, spinel, ruby, and garnet.
Author : William Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Gems
ISBN : OXFORD:600026453
Author : Dominique Merz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1482503131
In 2001, Tom Sutter accepts a Swiss private investor's assignment to investigate the operations in a gemstone mine, the banker owns in the Wah Wah Mountains of southern Utah. Red Emerald is only found at this site and mined by young Mormons. The owner is proud of his monopoly, but has no sales of red emeralds. When gemologist Dr. Ming Cheng from a prestigious gemstone institute stumbles over a red emerald from a different source, Tom enters a maze full of deception, fraud, rituals, violence, and cancers. Eventually the hunter becomes the hunted. When he traces the peculiar stone to its origin, Tom unearths dark secrets kept. Violence culminates and cancers in Utah keep on rising. Red Emerald is the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the rarest gemstones on the planet. Pertaining to mining, mob and Mormons, the novel coaxes facts into fiction.
Author : William Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Gems
ISBN : OCLC:317834023
Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345466952
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Author : Ursula Klinger Raatz
Publisher : Lotus Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Crystals
ISBN : 0941524388
Author : Cerridwen Greenleaf
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633535343
Definitive guide to the enchanted world of crystals and gems Did you know that wearing an amulet of green jade on an interview will help get the job? Have you heard that an amethyst ring can help break bad habits and even encourage sobriety? Anyone looking for love can place two pink quartz crystals in the bedroom; you’ll not be alone for long! These are just a few of the hundreds of secrets shared in this definitive guide to the enchanted world of crystals. Semi-precious stones and gems have long been known for their magic as well as their beauty. In this book of charms, readers learn everything there is to know about the powers of crystals from birthstone magic to gem divination to jewelry spells. This is a fun, entertaining, and enlightening book that will appeal to everyone who's ever worn a birthstone, kissed the ring of a lover for luck, or bought a crystal for good energy. The Magic of Crystals and Gems is a treasure chest filled with the ancient wisdom of crystals. It is also a handy how-to filled with little-known lore along with the myth, meanings and specific magical qualities of hundreds of crystals, both common and very rare including many meteorites. Author Cerridwen Greenleaf shares secrets to how and why crystal balls work, scrying with obsidian, crystal astrology, divination, healing, psychism and connections between the stars in the sky and gems of the earth. This one-of-a-kind work on the power of crystals will help readers understand which ones are right for them and how to unlock the mystery of sacred stones. It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the magical gifts of Mother Nature.
Author : Helen Molesworth
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593500897
A renowned jewelry expert tells the story of her career working with nature's most extraordinary treasures—gemstones—and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions of today Helen Molesworth has been captivated by precious stones since early childhood, but when she tried to join the gemstone industry as a fresh-faced university graduate, she struggled, having no connections in a patriarchal field dominated for centuries by a few family-run companies. She persevered, finding a job at a jewelry market stall in London while studying gemology at night. Two-plus decades later, Molesworth is now an international authority, having been hired to appraise the extraordinary jewelry of such clients as the British royal family. Her book is packed with inside stories about fabulous jewels associated with generations of celebrities, from Cleopatra (emerald) to Catherine, Princess of Wales (sapphire); from Marilyn Monroe (pearl) to Beyoncé (garnet); from Jackie O (pearl) to Lady Gaga (diamond); from Marie Antoinette (pearl) to Elizabeth Taylor (pearl, ruby, and emerald)! As Molesworth tells it, the history of gemstones is the history of humanity. And so she journeys the world, trudging through African diamond mines, Colombian emerald mines, and the sapphire-rich rivers of Sri Lanka to study gems at their source. She has selected ten of nature's most dazzling gems, tracing their first discovery and first trades, from when some cut-and-polished masterpieces adorned empresses and kings, while others fell in and out of favor, only to be resurrected to raise eye-watering sums in a later era. From the priceless emerald watch hidden under floorboards for centuries to the common quartz fashioned into world-famous royal jewels, and diamonds selling for multi-millions, Precious is not just a story of archeology and geology, high society and high finance; it’s the story of our timeless ambition to make—and wear—something beautiful.
Author : Diane Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313344060
Every culture has developed its own lore of rocks. From the stones of Aaron's breastplate to the foundational rocks of the New Jerusalem, from the creation tales of South America to the blood stones of Burma, gems have taken their place in the mythology and magic of the human race. This book details the lore attached to particular gems. Each chapter covers a particular stone and discusses the gem's geological, historical, mythical, and legendary qualities. A valuable resource for anyone researching symbols, myth, history, or literature, this book also helps science students understand the humanistic context of gemstones and offers social studies students a fascinating view of gems in world cultures. Each chapter covers a particular gemstone, such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. It also covers organic gems, such as pearl, coral, and amber. The chapters discuss the natural history of the stone, including where the gem is found, its value, and its use; the role the gem has played in history, especially for certain famous stones such as the Hope Diamond; and the myths, powers, and legends that have attached to the stone over the centuries. Science students will appreciate the humanistic context the book offers for gemstones, while social studies students will appreciate its consideration of gems across times and places. Students of literature and the arts will welcome the book's attention to gems as symbols, and general readers will find it a fascinating guide to the lore and legend of precious stones.
Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher : New York : Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Beads
ISBN : UOM:39015049205779
Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Occultism and science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044023317761
Author : Michael R. Collings
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781434457028
This A-Z guide to precious and semi-precious stones includes historical and cultural information, names and meanings, birthstones, historical and contemporary traditions, folklore, purported healing and mind-enhancing powers, and bibliography.
Author : Julius Wodiska
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297663489
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