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Focus on: Georges Lenfant (20th century)
Georges Lenfant began as an apprentice in jewelry making at a young age and quickly set up his workshop in Paris, on Rue des Petits-Champs, a few steps from Place Vendôme, where he worked for the...
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Maison Mohs at Timeless Jewels show
Maison Mohs at the Timeless Jewels show was at the end of November, the opportunity to showcase our selection of antique jewelry in Paris. Indeed, it is difficult to put everything online on t...
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For Christmas, think antique jewelry
Reducing our consumption is a subject that has become increasingly at the heart of our concerns in recent years. What if, to change things up a bit this Christmas, we thought antique jewelr...
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Eugénie O'Kin Jubin was a renowned tablet maker in France in the 1900s. A tablet maker? Yes, in the field of tablet making: she made delicate lathe pieces and an infinite number of small works in ...
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The history of Perpignan garnet jewelry In the 1750s, the inhabitants of Perpignan discovered deposits of garnet near Estagel. For this reason, it is likely that the use of garnet increased...
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The Retro period is broadly understood to span from the 1940s to the late 1960s. Most jewelry from this period was made of gold or silver, and for the first time in the 20th century, yellow g...
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Elephant hair in jewelry? Yes!
About elephant hair jewelry, here is a short story found in a book: " In 1923, as I was preparing to return to Ceylon, I visited him <…> Among several very original and somewhat unusual cost...
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Turquoise is a beautiful opaque blue stone, sometimes blue-green to green. Turquoise gets its name from Turkey, the country where it was thought to be mined. It was later learned that it ...
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What You Didn't Know About Gemstones
Some surprising truths about gemstones: "Precious stones" don't exist: In French legislation, the terms "precious stone" or "semi-precious" are grouped under the single term "gemstones" to align...
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