Jewelry

Some designs for new jewelry were displayed at an exhibition in London a few days ago, and the jewelry itself is expected to appear on the markets very soon. All the kinds of precious stones in the world were used in composing the new designs, including diamonds brought from Africa, rubies from Burma, sapphires from India and Ceylon, and tiger's-eye stones from Australia.

Gold was used in the making of these ornaments, finished in red, yellow, green, crimson, and white, and platinum was used along with it as well.

British artists and jewelry designers have concentrated all their care on producing beautiful jewelry, particularly earrings, bracelets, and brooches. Among the exhibits, too, is a design for a bracelet made of platinum and containing more than a thousand diamonds; its price is estimated at several thousand pounds, and it is counted the most valuable of the exhibits.

Also shown were a design for an earring and another for a brooch, to be made of platinum and of yellow and red gold and adorned with rubies and diamonds, and a design for a "bird of paradise" — a bird made of crimson gold, its feathers studded with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, standing on a flower made of gold with rubies at its center.