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    How to Clean Gemstones Without Dulling What Makes Them Glow
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    How to Clean Gemstones Without Dulling What Makes Them Glow
    A sapphire can sit in a soapy bowl for fifteen minutes. An opal should not. This stone by stone guide covers the warm water method, the pieces that only want... Read more
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    The Best Gemstones for Special Occasions, and the Days They Belong To
    The pieces people keep for fifty years usually arrive on a particular day. This guide goes occasion by occasion: anniversary stones by year, pearls and diamonds for the wedding, birthstones... Read more
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    Amethyst for Calm, Jade for Luck, Turquoise for the Road
    Ask ten people what amethyst is for and most answer with the same word without hesitation. Calm. The meanings attached to stones have outlasted the empires that recorded them, surviving... Read more
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    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
    A ring worn every day meets the car door, the keyboard and the kitchen tap before lunch. Some gemstones take that in stride for decades; others are better kept for... Read more
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    The Line Between a Good Stone and a Great One
    Two blue sapphires sit on the same tray, cut to the same oval, set in the same 14k white gold. One is nine hundred dollars and the other is nine... Read more
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    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    Long before anyone could explain why a ruby is red, people had decided what a ruby was for. Warriors set them into armour, travellers carried garnet for a safe return,... Read more
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    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    Set a fine amethyst beside a fine sapphire and most people guess the price backwards. That gap has almost nothing to do with how either stone looks. This guide sorts... Read more
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