GEMS & JEWELRY
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| show | EMERALD
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| IN SONG, THIS JULY BIRTHSTONE PRECEDES "TUESDAY" | show 🗑
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| JIM BRADY WAS BORN ON AUGUST 12, 1856 BUT APRIL WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE, WITH THIS AS ITS STONE | show 🗑
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| show | PEARL
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| show | SAPPHIRE
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| ANOTHER DEFINITION FOR IT IS A BASEBALL FIELD | show 🗑
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| show | AQUAMARINE
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| THIS FEB. BIRTHSTONE IS A VIOLET VARIETY OF QUARTZ | show 🗑
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| IN A 1969 HITCHCOCK FILM, A SPY RING HAS THIS CODE NAME, ALSO NOVEMBER'S BIRTHSTONE | show 🗑
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| A PLANT WITH BUMPY, DARK GREEN LEAVES IS CALLED THIS MAY BIRTHSTONE "RIPPLE" | show 🗑
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| show | PEARL
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| PRINCESS STEPHANIE OF MONACO WAS BORN TO THE PURPLE, SO IT'S FITTING THAT THIS IS HER BIRTHSTONE | show 🗑
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| YOU'LL RARELY SEE A FLAW IN THIS SEA-COLORED GEM THAT'S A BIRTHSTONE FOR MARCH | show 🗑
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| show | RUBIES
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| AT 563 CARATS, THE STAR OF INDIA, A BLUE ONE OF THESE, IS A BIT LARGE FOR A PINKY RING | show 🗑
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| show | TOPAZ
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| show | GARNET & RUBY
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| THESE OCTOBER BIRTHSTONES MAY LOSE THEIR COLOR & CRACK IF ALLOWED TO DRY OUT | show 🗑
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| show | MOONSTONE
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| show | PEARLS
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| THE JUBILEE ONE OF THESE WAS SO-NAMED IN 1897 TO COMMEMORATE THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORIA'S CORONATION | show 🗑
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| AS EARLY AS 3000 B.C., THIS GEMSTONE WAS KNOWN IN CHINA AS YU, OR THE "ROYAL GEM" | show 🗑
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| show | AMBER
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| show | TURQUOISE
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| THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAS MYSTERIOUS TUBES CALLED CONG, CARVED OF THIS GREEN GEMSTONE CHERISHED IN CHINA | show 🗑
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| show | JADE
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| show | DIAMOND
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| THIS RESINOUS GEMSTONE WAS SAID TO BE THE SOLIDIFIED TEARS OF APOLLO'S DAUGHTERS | show 🗑
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| MINES FOR THIS GEMSTONE, LIKE THE "LAVENDER PIT" IN ARIZONA, ARE ALWAYS NEAR COPPER MINES | show 🗑
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| THE PRODUCT OF A LIVING ORGANISM, IT'S THE BIRTHSTONE FOR JUNE | show 🗑
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| show | HARDNESS
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| THIS TERM IS USED FOR RED VARIETIES OF THE GEM CORUNDUM | show 🗑
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| show | 6
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| show | AFRICA
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| show | ROCK HOUND
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| show | SARDONYX
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| show | CARAT
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| show | JADE
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| A VARIETY OF SMOKY QUARTZ, CAIRNGORM IS A GEMSTONE THAT COMES FROM THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| IN CONSTRAST TO THE RED TYPES, THE UVAROVITE FORM OF THIS GEMSTONE IS A FINE GREEN | show 🗑
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| TAKE YOUR GEMSTONES TO THIS SPECIALIST TO HAVE THEM CUT AND POLISHED | show 🗑
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| show | LAPIDARY
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| show | NEPHRITE
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| THE LARGEST OF THESE RED GEMSTONES EVER DISCOVERED WAS A 400-CARAT ONE FOUND IN BURMA | show 🗑
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| THE TOMB OF HAN KING LIU WU YIELDED HIS BODY AND A SHROUD MADE OF THIS GREEN GEMSTONE | show 🗑
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| show | JADE
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| show | CAT'S EYE
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| DEPOSITS NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE ORANGE RIVER HAVE BEEN A RICH SOURCE OF THESE PRECIOUS GEMSTONES | show 🗑
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| THE "SHERRY" TYPE OF THIS GOLDEN GEMSTONE IS SOMETIMES HEATED TO TURN IT PINK | show 🗑
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| show | LAPIS LAZULI
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| THIS PURPLE GEMSTONE IS ASSOCIATED WITH ST. MATTHIAS, THE APOSTLE WHO REPLACED JUDAS ISCARIOT | show 🗑
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| THIS ADJECTIVE COULD MEAN "WORLD-WEARY" OR "COVERED WITH GREEN GEMSTONES" | show 🗑
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| show | EMERALD
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| THE STATE GEMSTONE OF WASHINGTON, IT'S NO LONGER WOOD BUT A STONY REPLICA | show 🗑
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| show | TURQUOISE
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| THE KASHMIR VARIETY OF THIS GEMSTONE IS A CORNFLOWER BLUE; THE BURMESE A DEEPER BLUE | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS GEMSTONE IS FROM THE PERSIAN "ZARGUN" MEANING GOLD-COLORED | show 🗑
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| INTAGLIO AND CAMEO ARE PRINCIPAL FORMS OF DOING THIS TO GEMSTONES | show 🗑
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| THIS RED GEM IS THE TRADITIONAL GIFT FOR A 40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY | show 🗑
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| show | NACRE
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| THIS GEM IS NAMED FOR BEING THE COLOR OF SEA WATER | show 🗑
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| L. FRANK BAUM HAD THIS BIRTHSTONE, THE SAME AS THE NAME OF A CITY HE CREATED | show 🗑
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| THE MOST PRIZED OF THESE FIERY GEMS ARE THE BLACK ONES FOUND IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA | show 🗑
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| show | BRACELET
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| ONCE REPORTEDLY WORN IN A SULTAN'S BELT BUCKLE, A 75-CARAT ONE OF THESE GREEN GEMS IS NOW IN THE SMITHSONIAN | show 🗑
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| A STUNNING PINK TYPE OF THIS GEM IS SOMETIMES HARVESTED FROM THE QUEEN CONCH | show 🗑
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| show | TOPAZ
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| show | BROOCH
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| LEGACY RINGS INSPIRED BY THE EDWARDIAN ERA ARE EXCLUSIVE TO THIS PREEMINENT FIFTH AVENUE JEWELER | show 🗑
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| MISS TAMBLYN KNOWS THAT LOTS OF JEWELRY IS MADE FROM THIS BROWNISH-YELLOW FOSSIL RESIN | show 🗑
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| IN 1974 THE NEWLY DISCOVERED GEM TSAVORITE GOT ITS NAME, DERIVED FROM THIS CONTINENT'S TSAVO NATIONAL PARK | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS ROMANTIC RING COMES FROM AN OLD IRISH FISHING VILLAGE THAT'S NOW PART OF GALWAY | show 🗑
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| show | QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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| MISS MANNERS SAYS IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS PROPER TO WEAR A STRAND OF THESE, BUT NEVER WITH YOUR BATHING SUIT | show 🗑
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| THIS TERM FOR A NARROW LOAF OF FRENCH BREAD ALSO DESCRIBES THIS CUT OF DIAMOND | show 🗑
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| BLUE, A LINE OF JEWELRY FROM THIS BRITISH POTTERY COMPANY, IS INSPIRED BY THE JASPER WARE IT HAS PRODUCED SINCE THE 1700S | show 🗑
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| show | ALEXANDRITE
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| show | RINGS
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| show | DIAMOND
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| YOU CAN GAZE AT THE FRENCH CROWN JEWELS IN THE GALERIE D'APOLION OF THIS FRENCH MUSEUM | show 🗑
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| show | HOPE DIAMOND
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| show | BAMBOO
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| show | PEARLS
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| show | OPAL
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| show | DIAMOND
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| show | EMERALDS
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| show | STAR SAPPHIRE
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| show | BLOODSTONE
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| IN THE 1930S CARROLL F. CHATHAM INVENTED A PROCESS TO CREATE THESE GREEN GEMS ARTIFICIALLY | show 🗑
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| show | RUBIES
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| show | PEARLS
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| IN 1847 LOUIS CARTIER FOUNDED AN ELEGANT JEWELRY FIRM IN THIS CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MINES FOR THESE GREEN GEMS IS FOUND AT MUZO, COLOMBIA | show 🗑
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| show | DIAMOND
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| IT'S THE COLOR OF THE STAR OF INDIA, A FAMOUS 563-CARAT SAPPHIRE | show 🗑
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| TYPES OF THESE PIECES OF JEWELRY INCLUDE SCHOOL, SIGNET, AND WEDDING | show 🗑
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| WITH ITS DEEP RED COLOR, THE SPINEL IS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR THIS PRECIOUS STONE | show 🗑
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| SIMULATED PEARLS MAY BE GLASS BEADS COVERED WITH THESE | show 🗑
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| show | OPALS
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| RENAISSANCE WOMEN WORE SEVERAL NECKLACES AT A TIME, OFTEN MADE OF THESE MOLLUSK GEMS | show 🗑
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| PERIDOTS ARE OFTEN THIS SHADE OF GREEN THAT MAY REMIND YOU OF A MARTINI GARNISH | show 🗑
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| THE 128-CARAT TIFFANY DIAMOND WAS DISCOVERED IN THIS COUNTRY'S FAMOUS KIMBERLEY MINE | show 🗑
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| MANY FINE FIRE OPALS COME FROM QUERETARO IN THIS NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| THE MOST HIGHLY VALUED RUBIES ARE A DEEP RED COLOR KNOWN AS "... BLOOD" | show 🗑
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| IT IS SAID THAT THIS GEM'S LUSTER WILL BE REVEALED EVEN IF THE STONE IS HIDDEN BENEATH THICK CLOTHING | show 🗑
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| show | GARNET
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| GEM WHOSE NAME IS FROM THE LATIN FOR "SEAWATER" | show 🗑
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| show | BLOODSTONE
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| WEALTHY PARENTS IN INDIA WOULD SPRINKLE TINY ONES OVER THE HEADS OF INFANTS TO KEEP THEM PURE AND INNOCENT | show 🗑
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| ACCORDING TO LEGEND, NOAH USED ONE OF THESE GEMS TO LIGHT HIS ARK | show 🗑
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| ITS SHAPE AND LUMINOSITY EXPLAIN ITS DESIGNATION AS GEM OF THE MOON | show 🗑
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| show | TOPAZ
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| THIS GEM, SUPPOSED TO BRING PROSPERITY, TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE FRENCH WORD FOR "TURKISH" | show 🗑
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| THIS GOLDEN-YELLOW GEM SOUNDS LIKE A FRUIT RELATED TO LEMONS OR LIMES | show 🗑
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| THIS BLUE-PURPLE GEM IS FOUND MAINLY IN THE EAST AFRICAN COUNTRY FOR WHICH IT IS NAMED | show 🗑
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| THIS GEM WAS DISCOVERED IN THE 1880S IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS AND NAMED FOR THE LEADER OF THE DISCOVERER'S NATION | show 🗑
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