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Article: Cheaper gems make the cut in today's jewelry market.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2006
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staff and wire report
A little glitter for your sweetheart seems like an easy answer to the Valentine's Day gift quandary: pearl earrings, perhaps, or a gold heart-pendant necklace. However, jewelry cases are turning up more and more unusual names - fluorite, smithsonite , tourmaline, for example - that can leave a lover bewildered.
While searching for a gift for his wife's birthday, Chris Chiarella was baffled by the selection when the jeweler laid out piece after piece studded with brightly colored stones he had never heard of - all priced at more than $2,000.
"I felt like I do when I go to the mechanic - that I don't know enough and I'm in ...
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