Your Roman-Style Garnet & Copper Earrings could easily have been worn by a Roman woman of the first century. This style was very popular, and much of the Greek artistic tradition was absorbed into the Roman economy and art tastes and values. Ancient Romans were avid collectors of ancient artifacts.
Your Genuine Ancient Egyptian 26th Dynasty Tube Bead Copper Earring Set is strictly limited. Your set is one of only 35 sets total, made from this hoard of totally authentic guaranteed genuine ancient Egyptian Faience Tube Beads and modern copper.
PLEASE NOTE: Ancient Faience Tube Beads are DELICATE. They cannot be subjected to pressure, and are subject to damage from water, mis-handling and other environmental accidents. In this Project, you learn to deal with the fact that these ancient ceramic beads are very, very delicate and must be handled and worn with care. Continue reading
It’s so incredibly easy to make your own solid sterling silver or gold-filled earwires, so why not? And they make your earrings look great! There’s nothing like hand-crafted earwires to really make people sit up and take notice, and I’m NOT kidding! Continue reading
Jewelers in ancient times had various tools available to them, depending upon the culture, the level of culture, the opportunities available to them or to their friends and families, but mostly it rested upon the traditions passed on through the generations.
Jewelers today have the same practices — many secrets are guarded and passed on only from father to son, mother to daughter, aunt or uncle to nieces & nephews. In short, they trust only family with these secrets.
I’ve never subscribed to that tradition. Continue reading
Linking is very basic for anything constructed of wire, and you’d be well-advised to master this skill by making many, many links in copper before trying your skill on silver and gold. How you link is, first cut a convenient and easy to handle length of .22 gauge wire, about ten to twelve inches long.
With your flush-cutter, clip off the very end of the wire with the flush side toward the larger piece. Cut off as LITTLE as possible — every bit of weight counts, both with precious gemstones and precious metals.
Using your needlenose pliers, place the tips about 2 inches from one end of the wire, and gently coax the wire into a bend back onto itself, and then deftly turn the wire and wind it around itself, as shown in the illustration below:
To begin with, an unorganized and messy studio will have a powerful impact on your ability to produce items for the marketplace. If you don’t care what you make or how it turns out or whether it ever gets actually worn, you have no problem working in a junkpile, but if you want to know what resources you have, and you want those resources to be findable, you’ll have to make some decisions about how your workbench will be arranged and what places on the workbench will do what jobs. Continue reading
If you’ve ever wanted to contact a past life, ancient beads are a great and inexpensive way to make solid and powerful quantum connections. Since I acquired my ancient beads, which was from 1960-1989, I’ve been salting them away for psychometric use.
Many of the more expensive beads went into Jewels of Ancient Lands productions, sold many years ago in Beverly Hills, San Francisco, New York & Atlanta jewelry boutiques for many thousands of dollars.
Those fabulous ancient and medieval glass and stone beads are long-gone, and cannot be repeated. The bead market that came out of Mali, Africa, has vanished forever — all you’ll find at that once-great international bead market are beads coming out of other places, notably Pakistan, China and Ethiopia. Continue reading
This was my mother’s sterling silver example of her modernist jewelry teacher, Art Smith’s “Calder” necklace, 1953; Smith was inspired by the Alexander Calder show at the Modern. I’m currently engaged in creating Modernist Pendants out of copper, brass, silver and 18 karat gold (it’s very yellow, as opposed to 14k). There are just too many of them to photograph and put up on eBay all at once, but I’m heading in that direction. You might want to market my Modernist Pendants, Ancient Style rings and earrings, and more. Inquire of me if you’re at all interested. Stock can cost anywhere from about $100 up to whatever you want to fling in the face of fortune.
In addition, I’ve waded into my library of 7,000 volumes, and pulled out more than half for sale; here are the details: Continue reading
I’m kinda busy right now, too busy to do anything but this one job — I’m right in the middle of sorting out the hundreds of 18k and 24k gold jewelry items I made back in the day when I could do that sort of thing. I’m planning on doing a meltdown of all the unsold gold items and then selling the melted gold at the gold melt price. This includes many amulets, solid 24k gold repousse works and all manner of solid 18k gold wire items, many Rumi hearts, etc.
Why am I doing this? Because gold is $1300 an ounce, which makes it totally unaffordable even to the very rich. My jeweler friends tell me that they haven’t sold anything but wedding sets for the past 10 years, and that at $35 an ounce, silver is hard to sell, too.
The fact is that high-grade 18k and 14k gold jewelry — the kind I used to sell through Isis Gallery on Rodeo Drive — just isn’t selling anymore, and won’t again in my lifetime, at least not as personal jewelry. So, it’s time for my jewelry collection to go into the melting pot. My silver rings will soon join the gold, and when the time is right, I’ll melt down the copper rings, necklaces & bracelets, too.
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