David's Blog

A practical guide from David’s to choosing amber, asking the right questions and caring for your piece.

A practical guide from David’s to choosing diamond jewelry, asking the right questions and caring for your piece.

A practical guide from David’s to choosing opal, asking the right questions and caring for your piece.

A practical guide from David’s to choosing topaz, asking the right questions and caring for your piece.

A practical guide from David’s to choosing amethyst, asking the right questions and caring for your piece.

A farm girl gathers red sparks from her father's plowed fields, and they become the jewelry Victorian Europe fell in love with. The story of Bohemian garnets.

Over a bowl of pomegranate seeds, a mother tells her daughter the myth of Persephone, and why the garnet, named for those seeds, is a promise to return.

Noah's glowing lantern, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, Anglo-Saxon warriors' gold and the Bohemian fields of fire: the legends of garnet.

On a stormy night when the power goes out, a grandmother lights a candle and tells her grandson the legend of the glowing red stone that lit Noah's ark.

Tears of the moon, Cleopatra's wager, the wandering La Peregrina, America's pearl rush and the women divers of Japan: the legends of pearl.

A fried fortune, a pink pearl for a French empress and a country gone pearl-crazy. A grandfather on the river tells the story of America's great pearl rush.

A diver's treasure, a queen's wedding gift, a war prize and a puppy's chew toy. The wandering story of La Peregrina, from Mary Tudor to Elizabeth Taylor.