History of Gem Collecting: Early Gemstone Explorers
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Gemstones History and subjects of interest
History of Gem Collecting: Early Gemstone Explorers
Did any of us need much encouragement to begin our jewel collection? Some of us devote a great deal of time completing our collection, driven by the passion for finding the next great stone. Just one more and it will be complete, right? No it won't, there will always be one more; or good heaven...let's just start another collection altogether. Oh, why not?
We may collect by species, type, color, you name it. There's no limit to the ways in which we decide how to assemble a wonderful collection of gemstones. Some people I know collect gems by the region of the world. An "all Asian" collection may have Peridot, jade, serpentine, pearl, coral, lapis lazuli, and the like. But how in the world did all this get started?
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