Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 2 Buying Sterling Silver Jewelry

Written by Sam Serio


Whether you presently own a retail or web based business and are looking for an additional profit center or you are thinking of starting a business, jewelry is a “no-brainer” choice for a proven product category. The buying public, (particularly women) never tires of jewelry asrepparttar choices in color, materials, finishes and styles are endless and innovations are continual. Every generation reinvents jewelry for itself in muchrepparttar 150759 same way that it reinvents music and fashion. Styles change butrepparttar 150760 basic facts remainrepparttar 150761 same. If you are a seasoned professional, please considerrepparttar 150762 following a refresher course. Torepparttar 150763 new comer, use this information as a foundation for your ongoing jewelry education.

The Facts About Sterling Silver Jewelry Sterling silver jewelry is enjoying an unprecedented popularity with today’s fashion conscious public. You know how beautiful sterling silver jewelry is and how brilliantly it shines. Now here isrepparttar 150764 rest ofrepparttar 150765 story.

Silver has been used since ancient times, but has not survived as well as ancient gold because it tarnishes and decomposes. There have been times, however, when silver was “in”; we are going through such a vogue today.

Buying Jewelry For Your Business Part 6 Buying Pearl Jewelry

Written by Sam Serio


Whether you presently own a retail or web based business and are looking for an additional profit center or you are thinking of starting a business, jewelry is a “no-brainer” choice for a proven product category. The buying public, (particularly women) never tires of jewelry asrepparttar choices in color, materials, finishes and styles are endless and innovations are continual. Every generation reinvents jewelry for itself in muchrepparttar 150758 same way that it reinvents music and fashion. Styles change butrepparttar 150759 basic facts remainrepparttar 150760 same. If you are a seasoned professional, please considerrepparttar 150761 following a refresher course. Torepparttar 150762 new comer, use this information as a foundation for your ongoing jewelry education.

The Facts About Pearl Jewelry Because natural pearls are very rare, most pearls used in jewelry are either cultured or imitation pearls. Cultured pearls, because they are made by oysters or mollusks, usually are more expensive than imitation pears. A cultured pearl’s value is largely based on its size, usually stated in millimeters, andrepparttar 150763 quality of its nacre coating, which give it luster. Jewelers should tell your ifrepparttar 150764 pearls are cultured or imitation. Some black, bronze, gold, purple, blue and orange pearls, whether natural or cultured, occur that way in nature; some, however, are dyed through various processes. Jewelers should tell you whetherrepparttar 150765 colored pearls are naturally colored, dyed or irradiated.

Clams, oysters, mussels and many other mollusks with limy shells are known to produce pearls. But very few kinds yield gem pearls of jeweler's quality. The pearl is an abnormal growth of mother-of-pearl, or nacre, imbedded inrepparttar 150766 soft bodies of these shellfish. It is built up, layer upon layer, inrepparttar 150767 same way as nacre is added torepparttar 150768 lining ofrepparttar 150769 growing shell and always hasrepparttar 150770 same color and luster. For example, overrepparttar 150771 country, hundreds of good-sized pearls are found each year inrepparttar 150772 oysters we eat. Unfortunately these have no commercial value regardless of whether they have been cooked or not because they are dull opaque white or purple likerepparttar 150773 shell ofrepparttar 150774 parent oyster. In recent times almost all pearls of gem quality come fromrepparttar 150775 oriental pearl oyster which has a bright shimmering translucent nacre.

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