Bead Day

BEADED BLUE VELVET GOWN, c. 1920
Sapphire silk velvet, sleeveless, reverse scalloped hem, embellished w/ pearls & white beaded round blossoms above repeat patterns of pearls, crystal bead & blue rhinestone flower clusters & wreaths, bead motifs framed w/ blue carnival glass beaded ground, silk lining

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Prehnite balls intermingled with Schorl Tourmaline. From the Djouga diggings, Bendougou Village, Arrondissement Diako, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes Region, Mali. Measures 9.5 cm by 7.3 cm by 4.7 cm in total size.

#jewelleryfacts365 124/365 Gold fact

The heaviest modern gold bullion coin is Austria's Philharmonic. In 2004, the coin, which has a weight of 1,000 ounces (31.1 kilograms or 69 troy pounds or 828 troy ounces) and a diameter of 15 inches, was dubbed the world’s largest gold coin by Guinness World Records.

The Australian Philarmonic

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#jewelleryfacts365 123/365 Emerald fact

Records show that the stone was known and sold in markets in Babylon as early as 4000 BC.

Ancient Babylonian Gold griffon jewelry (source)

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Creedite, China

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El Dorado (for "the golden one") is the term used by Europeans to describe a mythical tribal chief of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally an empire. (source)

This Muisca raft figure is on display in the Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia

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Jewellery masterpieces

Bracelets with Portrait Miniatures
Gold, silver, cut diamonds, rock crystal and miniatures; polished and painted. 17x2.2 cm, Russia. St Petersburg. 1760s.
State Hermitage Museum

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A fragment of the oldest known pearl jewelry, found in the sarcophagus of a Persian princess who died in 520 BC, is displayed in the Louvre in Paris