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Anna Sheffield

She has also worked in collaboration with fashion designers such as Marc Jacobs and Philip Lim and retail stores including Cole Haan, Target Corporation and Urban Outfitters to create jewelry.

Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers

Amos and Gale Binkley were born in Cheatham County, Tennessee, and were working as jewelry repairmen when they started playing for WSM in 1926.

Carlton Cannes

The jewelry was part of a temporary exhibition by mineralogist and Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev called Leviev Diamond House.

Clayton Lewis

Following various shows and the subsequent breakup of his marriage in 1962, he moved first to Nevada City in 1963, and then to the Point Reyes Peninsula in 1964, where he designed a large collection of sculpture jewelry while working with Judy Perlman.

Coffee World

GFA is part of the Synergia One Group of Companies; a diversified group that consists of companies founded by serial entrepreneur Fred Mouawad and includes the 122-year-old family jewelry business Mouawad.

DeLong Star Ruby

On October 29, 1964, the DeLong star ruby was one of a number of precious gems stolen in a notorious jewelry heist by Jack Roland Murphy and two accomplices.

DeVanity

DeVanity is a continuing drama series revolving around the wealthy and dysfunctional DeVanity family of Downtown Los Angeles, owners of a well renowned jewelry empire providing exquisite pieces to the rich and famous.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Diamond District

The area is one of the primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with London — rough stones; the Antwerp diamond district in Belgium — historical but waning; Mumbai, India — increasing in significance, Ramat Gan, Israel — also growing, and Johannesburg, South Africa — the major historical source), as well as the premier center for jewelry shopping in the city.

Diplomatic Area, Bahrain

The mall also features a number of fine jewelry boutiques including De Beers, Tiffany & Co., Boucheron, Chopard, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier and Rolex, among others.

Etruscan jewelry

The finest jewelry was still mainly centered and focused in the southern city-states such as; Cerveteri, Tarquinia and Vetulonia.

Eugénie Fougère

While performing at the Salone Margherita a café-chantant in Naples (Italy) in 1902, she contacted Camorra boss Enrico Alfano to ask for help in returning some of her missing jewelry.

Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954

The United States Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954 actually temporarily extended the 1951 excise tax increases (through March 31, 1955), but also reduced excise tax rates on, among other things, telephones, admissions, and jewelry.

Gilbert Albert

After the October 2010 acquisition of the brand by Majid Pishyar, chairman of the 32Group company, the jewelry house entered into an international expansion plan.

Hardcore Pawn

American Jewelry and Loan is owned by Leslie "Les" Gold, the grandson of a pawnbroker who once owned Sam's Loans, a now-defunct pawnshop on Michigan Avenue in Detroit.

Jakob Bengel

It was during the Bauhaus and Art Deco period that designers were looking to obtain new materials and inspiration to produce costume jewelry.

Jo Danville

She has revealed that she is a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team during a case involving stolen jewelry; and once worked for a burlesque club at college, but only as an accountant, much to the intrigue and later the disappointment of Mac.

John Qualen

As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954).

Joseph Scalise

On September 11, 1980, Scalise and a colleague, Arthur Rachel, undertook a $3.6 million jewel robbery in broad daylight at Graff's jewelry store in London's busy Knightsbridge area, stealing the 45-carat Marlborough diamond, along with many other jewels.

Julio de Diego

In 1946 he held Modern Handmade Jewelry exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and two years later remarried Gypsy Rose Lee, becoming her third husband that way.

Kenneth Jay Lane, Inc.

also known as K.J.L. is a jewelry design firm founded by Kenneth Jay Lane in 1963.

Kenneth Lane

Kenneth Jay Lane, Inc., a jewelry design firm founded by Kenneth Jay Lane in 1963

Liquidation Channel

The Jewelry Channel USA has overseas versions of their channel in the United Kingdom (The Jewellery Channel) and Germany (Der Schmuckkanal) that are still active.

Live insect jewelry

In 2006, the Giant Madagascar hissing cockroach (or Gromphadorhina portentosa) achieved high profile, short-lived popularity as live jewelry.

Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More

The show's costume designer, Lori Eskowitz-Carter, provided Sergio Rossi boots worth $1,750 for the episode, while Grace's jewelry was supplied by Martin Katz.

Mart Duggan

In March, 1888, Duggan arrested a jewelry peddler, and when the charges were dropped and Duggan was fined $25 for unlawful arrest, he resigned from the police force.

Mary Oyaya

She has been featured in fashion magazines such as CAT and S where she has advertised Salvatore Ferragamo and Gucci sunglasses, Chanel, and Jan Logan jewelry and footwear with Sergio Rossi.

Mel Bernie Company

Inspired by the Edwardian and Art Deco jewelry of the TV show’s period, this collection was created by the design team at 1928 and approved by the Downton Abbey producers in England through an exclusive licensing agreement.

Michael Mastro

In May 2013 it was reported that the bankruptcy trustee, James Rigby, had filed an 82 page report which valued of all jewelry seized from the Mastros at $3 million.

Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Holiday Festival

Several other exhibits and booths feature other Japanese items, such as Japanese dry goods and snacks, kimonos, jewelry, anime, origami folding, and an abundance of traditional Japanese cuisine, including their famous grilled Chicken Teriyaki dinner, Udon (Japanese cold noodles), sushi, Edamame, and kintoki (Japanese snow cone topped with sweet azuki beans).

Mikak

John Russell painted her portrait while she wore extravagant dresses and jewelry given to her by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales.

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

Cases are devoted to Pueblo pottery, ranging from thousand year-old Anasazi bowls to contemporary works, including several pieces by the famed San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the silver and turquoise jewelry of Zuni, Navajo, Hopi and Santo Domingo artists.

Never Die Alone

The items include jewelry, his car (which is a rare Stutz Blackhawk), and a collection of audio tapes.

Nicola Paone

Just as he did for his jewelry store many years earlier, he would sing jingles as commercial advertisements for his restaurant on WQXR.

Olga Bolbukh

She has been largely involved in advertising business ever since, working with U.S. pharmaceutical maker Unipharm Inc., world-famous jewelry firm Cartier SA and international brand Dolce & Gabbana.

Pettah Market

Most of the businesses in Pettah are dominated by Muslim traders who specialize in gold and jewelry shops.

Pink Ralph Lauren dress of Gwyneth Paltrow

With her dress, Paltrow wore Harry Winston jewelry (necklace, bracelet and earrings valued at around $160,000), which had been a gift from her parents.

Robert Goossens

In his decades of creating fine jewelry, Goossens mixed the genuine stones with the fakes, a blend of the artificial gems with the semi-precious for clients including Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Madame Gres and Christian Dior.

Roy Rosselló

Since 2006, Rosselló has run a Caribbean-themed bar in the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, where he also owns a jewelry store, Roy Rossello Fine Jewelry.

Samantha Thavasa

The company's marketing strategy is typified by its extensive utilization of Western celebrities and socialites in its advertising, although Lee Byung-hun was used to promote its jewelry brand, Samantha Tiara.

Seven Great Lords of Narnia

In the film version, Edmund, Caspian and Eustace find his skeletal remains wrapped around various gold and jewelry implying that he was either killed by another dragon who was already there or had been starved to death after being tempted to stay on the island for its treasures despite the harsh conditions.

Shang Dynasty

The Erligang culture represented by the Zhengzhou site is found across a wide area of China, even as far northeast as the area of modern Beijing, where at least one burial in this region during this period contained both Erligang-style bronzes and local-style gold jewelry.

SS Carolina

In the event, Chatteron would eventually salvage the purser's safe from the Carolina with renowned wreck diver Gary Gentile, which was found to contain gold coin and jewelry.

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box

T-ara Japan Tour 2012: Jewelry Box (stylized as T-ARA JAPAN TOUR 2012~Jewelry box~) is the first Japan nationwide concert tour by South Korean girl group T-ara, in support of their first Japanese studio album, Jewelry Box (2012).

Twosret

Theodore Davis identified the Queen and her husband in a cache of jewelry found in tomb KV56 in the Valley of the Kings.

Vimochanam

The male lead, Arumugham, sell his wife's jewelry to buy alcohol until probation in the Salem district offers much-needed relief.

Wiawaka Holiday House

Some recent workshop topics have included creative writing, poetry readings with Yaddo poet Joan Murray, holistic healing, yoga, quilting, historical lectures, jewelry making, and tours of the historic property.


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