I've popped up again, burbling about pearls for The English Manner website ( http://- blog.theenglishmanner.com/author/wendy ) This time the topic is pearls for me. Just to emphasise, a single pearl on a leather lace is a great Valentine's present for your man.
February 1
Wednesday 01 February, 2012
News of the Edison pearl auction last month - the top price paid for one strand of Edison pearls was just over £1/2m. Trade. Yes, one strand! Don't ever look down your nose at freshwater pearls again. Just to remind you - here is our strand of Edisons - bought when they were simply freshwater bead nucleated pearls. Each pearl individually picked out by Wendy in Hong Kong, then drilled, arranged and assembled here at Pearlescence. They are simply stunning pearls http://www.pearlescence.co.uk/produ- ct_info.php/cPath/104_175/products_id/2764
I've started to write an occasional column for the web site The English Manner
The English manner is a great resource for all the things which smooth society's rough interactions - did you know that the root meaning of polite is behaviour appropriate to a city - a polis - hence politician, police etc etc. For my first piece I've done a general pearlish overview of fabulousness - htt- p://blog.theenglishmanner.com/all-about-pearls
January 12, 2012
Thursday 12 January, 2012
From the London Assay Office (to which all our gold and silver smithing work goes for marking):
'The decline in articles sent in for hallmarking continued into 2011 with all of the UK offices feeling the downturn.
The annual number of articles sent for hallmarking were 4,445,416
(-24%) for gold, 6,070,961 (-30%) for silver, 238,770 (-11%) for
platinum and 106,759 (-0.5%) for palladium'
