Category: Jewelry

D3 Track & Field: Cedar Cliff girls get new jewelry for prom night
Carlisle Sentinel, PA

SHIPPENSBURG — Saturday night was prom night at Cedar Cliff High school and the girls from the 4X100 relay team picked up the perfect accessory to go along with their evening gowns – a gold medal.

Colts Kelly Allred, Karyn Boyer, Beth Getty and Laura McGowan successfully defended their 400 relay championship by beating out top seed Susquehanna Twp., Central York and CD East with a time of 49.43.

“It was a rough week,” McGowan said. “We didn’t do well at Mid-Penns.”

“I don’t think we expected that,” Allred said. “In the back of our minds we knew we wanted to do it, but to actually do it at all.” Read more about D3 Track & Field: Cedar Cliff girls get new jewelry for prom night …

‘Signs of Life’ melds exquisite jewelry with captivating literary imagery
Seattle Post-Intelligence

An acorn, a leaf, a lavender bloom.
A bee, a chick, a butterfly wing.
A hand, a heart, a vial of tears.

Things we take for granted. Yet, each offers a promise of life. Each heralds nature, birth and human relationships. Each is a metaphor for our time on Earth; a “Sign of Life” that germinates and glows within a nifty hybrid exhibit at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery.

Eye-catching and contemplative, “Signs” sprouts from a marriage of opposites; nine visual artists wedded to nine articulate writers. The first group sets a table with exquisitely sculpted necklaces, bracelets, brooches and rings; the other indulges in a literary feast. It’s a call to the senses and a response of intellect that spawns captivating stories and poems. Read more about 'Signs of Life' melds exquisite jewelry with captivating literary imagery …

Violent Jewelry Heists Reported In Tri-State
WLWT ChannelCincinnati.com via Yahoo! News

Violent jewelry heists in the Tri-state area have left businessmen ambushed and crooks getting away with thousands of dollars, News 5 reported.

Similar incidents have happened in cities across the country.

In a matter of seconds, the robber could slash a jewelry dealer’s tires, break windows and hold the victim up at knifepoint.

The jewel bandits have struck twice in Blue Ash Read more about Violent Jewelry Heists Reported In Tri-State …

Jewelry supplier Kassoy changes hands
National Jeweler

MAY 17, 2006 – Hicksville, N.Y.- — Kassoy, a supplier to jewelry manufacturers and retailers, has been acquired by a new corporation formed by Kenstan Lock Company. The new corporation will be called Kassoy LLC.
Hans E.R. Bosch, CEO of Kassoy LLC, is also the managing director of Kenstan, a distributor of high security locking systems for showcases and other fixtures for the jewelry trade for 40 years.

The acquisition will provide the Kassoy customer base and the industry with a single source for all gemological and bench tools, packaging, fixtures, displays and bar coding systems. Read more about Jewelry supplier Kassoy changes hands …

Tattooed Mummy With Jewelry Found in Peru
Female Mummy With Complex Tattoos Found in Peru Along With Jewelry and Weapons
ABC News

WASHINGTON May 16, 2006 (AP)— A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday.

The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items including jewelry and weapons, and the remains of a teenage girl who had been sacrificed, archaeologists reported.

The burial was at a site called El Brujo on Peru’s north coast near Trujillo. Read more about Tattooed Mummy With Jewelry Found in Peru …

Rapaport Fair Trade Jewelry Conference at JCK Vegas Show
CSR Wire

(CSRwire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 15, 2006–The Rapaport Fair Trade Jewelry Conference will be held at the JCK Las Vegas Jewelry Show, Monday June 5th, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Delfino Ballroom, Venetian Hotel. The conference is free and open to all members of the jewelry industry.

The purpose of the conference is to promote greater industry awareness of fair trade jewelry. Leading stakeholders within the jewelry trade will discuss the potential for the development of fair trade jewelry products and the establishment of fair trade jewelry standards. The conference goal is to raise the issue of fair trade and encourage consensus building within the industry Read more about Rapaport Fair Trade Jewelry Conference at JCK Vegas Show …

Thousands Donate Cash, Jewelry for Hamas
From Times Wire Reports/Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2006

About 5,000 Hamas supporters gathered in the West Bank city of Nablus to donate money and jewelry to their cash-strapped Palestinian government.
Israel has halted tax transfers and the West has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in aid since Hamas won elections.

Several women put jewelry in a collection plate. A group of gunmen from Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades donated $22. Read more about Thousands Donate Cash, Jewelry for Hamas …

China April Retail Sales Rise at Fastest Pace in Year (Update1)
Bloomberg.com

May 15 (Bloomberg) — China’s retail sales rose at the fastest pace in more than a year in April as rising incomes left consumers with more money to spend on electronics, jewelry and clothing.
Sales rose 13.6 percent last month from a year earlier to 578 billion yuan ($72 billion) after climbing 13.5 percent in March, the Beijing-based National Bureau of Statistics said today. That beat the 13.4 percent median forecast of 21 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. Read more about China April Retail Sales Rise at Fastest Pace in Year (Update1) …

California Teacher Beaten by Student After Confiscating Pot Jewelry
Thursday, May 11, 2006/EUREKA, Calif

EUREKA, Calif. — A high school student who was ordered to conceal a marijuana leaf pendant was arrested for putting his teacher in a headlock and dislocating his shoulder after the teacher confiscated the chain, authorities said.

The Zoe Barnum High School student allegedly swept the teacher from his feet April 28 and beat him until another student broke it up Read more about California Teacher Beaten by Student After Confiscating Pot Jewelry …

Jewelry store gets new life
WOODBURY/Courier-Pos
The city’s only jewelry store won’t fade after all.

When the longtime owners of Saloff Jewelers on South Broad Street retired at the end of March, they feared their business would be no more.

“I was looking forward to retirement, but I wasn’t looking forward to a 115-year-old business just folding,” former owner John Beal said Tuesday.

With the city’s help, Beal last month found a buyer for the business, which dates to at least 1893, when it was known as H.H. Thomin Jewelers. (Beal and his wife, Paula, bought the shop in 1985.) Read more about Jewelry store gets new life …