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Many of you know me from my profile. I am a Graduate Gemologist, but long retired. When I studied for my degree, I had an opportunity to take classes on period jewels and antiques, but as I worked full time and had 3 children, I only took the required courses to advance my career. Basically, a Gemologist is a trained professional who can positively identify gemstones using techical instumentation. It took me 7 years to complete my degree, and I had little time for reading. However, I am fascinated with jewelry, and when I saw the crown jewels in Londen, I was captivated. Like most jewelers, I am superstitious, and historical jewelry hold many legends, and secrets. In reaality ALL gems have a story we will never know. However, jewelry has always been worn to adorn, and signify statis in every society dating as far back as civilization. I have started a Tudor library in my home, and although I have many books yet to read , I thought I might take a detour, and read some of these, as I am a bit bored with reading about royalty, and thought this would be refreshing. As I said, I know nothing about this subject, so I thought I would share some of my journey with you all. I am taking a short vacation, but will work on this further. I love all the spooky stuff, and the romance, and many jewels have curses, the Hope Diamond in particular, so this should be a hoot. I have 2 personal stories about cursed stones I will share later.These books are expensive, but they have gorgeous illustrations, and so I feel they are worth the investment. Happy new year to you all. It has been a very tough one here in the USA.

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Hi, glad you posted. I have only had the normal dysfunctional family, but certainly have my problems now. However, history is so important to me, and apparantly I am the sensitive artistic type. Not like drawing or music, but love the clothes, fantasy, jewels, music, the whole nine yards.
Yes, I made my choices, and I must say in retrospect they were the wrong ones. I fought tooth and nail to rebuild my house, and get my kids through the trauma of the family. My kids are great. My dreamhouse gorgeaous, but now we are facing bankruptcy, and my kids are qway at school. Never the less, I will keep fighting, for the next house, the next library, and the next United States of AMERICA. Yep, we will come back, and there has to be some good that will come out of our national nightmare. If we don't believe that ,then we have no hope. I believe in hope, and in us. Henry the 8th would be most intrigued I think, and he certainly could have gotten his divorce, his boy, and his toys without all the beheadings!

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