Category: Art Deco Jewelry

Singing the Blues

Posted in Art Deco Jewelry, Collecting, Jewelry, Lapis Lazuli, Memoir, Uncategorized, Zuni fetishes6 Comments

In the 1970s, when I was in my twenties, I belonged to a spiritual community that, on balance, did me a lot of good. My boss was convinced it was a cult, and when 900 members of the Peoples Temple drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Jonestown, Guyana, he begged me to leave my community before something… Continue reading Singing the Blues

In Praise of Glass

Posted in Art Deco Jewelry, Collecting, Estate jewelry, Hubbell Glass Jewelry, Jewelry, Mandarin Court Necklace, Memoir, Navajo Silver Jewelry, Peking Glass Jewelry, Simulated Alexandrite, Uncategorized4 Comments

I’m a sucker for the real thing, and sometimes the real thing is glass. Though it’s manmade, glass is as ‘natural’ as any other gem, being based on silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the main component of sand. Melting sand into glass, and adding traces of other minerals to produce various colors, is not only advanced technology, it’s high art. What… Continue reading In Praise of Glass