The beautiful ring fascinated me! I’ve never been all that much into Mother of Pearl, but I’ve always loved amethysts and diamonds, and this 14k gold ring had all three. It had been labelled “Erte” and “CFA” but neither of those were familiar to me. Yet I couldn’t walk away from that beautiful, somewhat unusual ring. I had to buy it!

When I was a little girl, my mother had two large Buxton jewelry boxes.  In one she kept all her "junk" jewelry and in the other one all her "good" jewelry.  For me her "junk" jewerly was the most fascinating.  My mother would never let me play with her "good" jewelry box items, so I was content with her pretty and colorful junk jewelry.
 

I thought it would be fun to write an article touching on very famous cameo carvers! There are many carvers both past and present, however there are two that I especially want to write about because they regularly signed their work and truly were the most famed carvers of their day...and they remain popular today as their works continue to be highly collectible and coveted among collectors.

The Japanese word “gaman” means “enduring what seems unbearable with dignity and grace.” It has come to define the works of art created by Japanese evacuees held in relocation centers for the duration of WWII. In our first discussion of this period of American history author Jacqueline Rehmann shared a number of arts and crafts created by those residents.