Category: Scottish Victorian Jewelry

Oh Chalcedony!

Posted in Agate, Bloodstone, Chalcedony, Collecting, Jasper, Jewelry, Memoir, Onyx, Scottish Victorian Jewelry, Uncategorized2 Comments

In a poem that confused me in high school—many poems confused me in high school, and many still do—Edna St. Vincent Millay describes the pain of an old love affair as something ‘clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo’: ‘O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard Time has estranged you into a jewel… Continue reading Oh Chalcedony!

Highland Bling

Posted in Collecting, Estate jewelry, Jewelry, Memoir, Scottish Victorian Jewelry, Uncategorized4 Comments

I am fairly sure I have not one drop of Scottish blood in my veins. It’s all Jewish, as far as I know. Had I been born in Aberdeen rather than Syracuse, New York, I would still consider myself a Jew and not a Scot, because we Jews have an inborn legitimate fear of getting kicked out… Continue reading Highland Bling