The Dong ethnic minority regards silver as the most precious of metals, and out of which the most dazzling jewelry is made. Families begin amassing silver jewelry, comprising corollas, hairpins, combs, chaplets, necklaces, bracelets, rings ...
Tags: Wedding Gowns, Precious Silver
The first ten years of the 20th century coincided with the last decade of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The Boxer Uprising in 1900 against the foreign allied forces prompted the Qing government to make changes in its politics but ...
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U.S. consumers who purchase gifts during the 2014 Christmas season anticipate spending an average of $596.53, according to the National Retail Federation's (NRF) annual holiday intentions survey. The anticipated figure represented an ...
Tags: Jewelry, Precious Metals
The 20th Yiwu Fair will be held from Oct. 21st to Oct. 25th in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. It sets up 5,000 international standard booths, including Hardware, Electronic & Electrical Appliances, Knitwear, Jewelry & Accessories, ...
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The Shullman Research Center found that 21 percent of U.S. adults who plan Christmas shopping expect to purchase jewelry this year; however, the percentage increases dramatically for the top 41 percent of households, or those earning ...
Tags: Christmas Jewelry, Crafts
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that U.S. Christmas-season retail sales will increase 4.1 percent year on year to approximately $619.9 million for the months of November and December 2014. The projected increase is higher ...
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Blue Nile is being challenged by rising diamond prices, forcing the online jeweler to seek out growth in other areas. As diamond prices rise, eroding Blue Nile’s competitive advantage that its lower online prices offer, consumers will ...
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The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for jewelry declined 4.5 percent year on year to 171.97 points in July. However, the reading has been slowly inching higher since the index reached the lowest point of the year so far at 169.36 points in ...
Tags: Jewelry Price, Watches
U.S. jewelry and watch sales rose 4.3 percent year on year in July, according to preliminary government calculations, representing the strongest monthly gain so far this year. Earlier this month, and beginning with June's provisional sales ...
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De Beers is talking about change, urging the trade to be proactive in dealing with a persistently uncertain and volatile market environment. While the company has directed its message to the diamond industry at large, and specifically to ...
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U.S. jewelry store sales jumped 8 percent year on year to $2.37 billion in July, according to the government's retail survey. The increase for jewelry stores was stronger than the overall jewelry and watch sector, which recorded a ...
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Ritani has partnered with a number of fine jewelry brands and designers, as well as up-and-coming talent from the Fashion Institute of Technology, to launch the Ritani Designer Collections program. The program works like this: Each ...
Agatha Christie’s brooch and ring are seen here. Christie wrote the plays The Mousetrap, Towards Zero and The Hollow along a number of best-selling novels, including And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. ...
Kent State University’s museum in Kent, Ohio, will house the AJDC’s “Variations on a Theme” exhibition from Oct. 24 to May 3, 2015. Click through the slideshow to see five pieces that will be displayed in the ...
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This diamond necklace boasts a 81.38-carat potentially internally flawless diamond. The piece is expected to garner as much as $3.5 million later this month when Christie’s New York opens its fall jewelry season with a sale of ...