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A fond farewell. The Pala crew congratulates Jill Stordahl-Hall (second from left) and John McLean (far right) on the occasion of their retirement. Also pictured are Jeanne and Bill Larson. (Photo: Mia Dixon)
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JA New York Summer Show
July 23–25, 2017
Pala International will not have a booth at this month's trade-only JA New York Summer Show. Pala's Jason Stephenson will attend the show, visiting our many friends there. And, of course, dealers and suppliers downtown.
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Art of Sweden: Home and Abroad
Mia Dixon, Pala International's resident photographer, came across two exhibitions from Stockholm's Nationalmuseum, an art and design museum of her native Sweden. The 150-year-old institution currently is undergoing its first major renovation, but that doesn't keep it from mounting exhibitions at home and abroad.
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Clutch Argot
While highlighting an exhibition of creations by "bag lady" Judith Leiber we also highlight some trade terminology. With apologies to Clark Haas…
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Pala's Featured Stone
Lazulite from Brazil
This month we feature a blue lazulite from Brazil—not to be confused with lazurite, the gem form of lapis lazuli. Lazulite is extremely rare in larger size faceted gems and usually only is found in small prismatic rough crystals associated with quartz veins and quartzite.
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Beauty in Blemish
Atlanta photographer Nick Prince is a mineral collector. His two passions melded one day when he tested a camera lens using a random "rather mundane" specimen as a guinea pig. "The scene I captured was quite crude but was clearly a string of beautiful crystals inside the specimen. I was hooked."
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You Break It, You Bought It
A Chinese tourist in Yunnan Province near the border with Burma tried on a jade bracelet in a jewelry shop but it slipped to the floor when she slipped it off, breaking what was (over)priced at $44,000. It's then that the haggling began…
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Thievery Operation
More than $30,000 worth of gems and minerals were stolen in the early morning of June 19 from the Franklin Mineral Museum located in Franklin, New Jersey. The burglars jumped a barbed wire fence and used a ladder to access a second-story window, rapelling down to the first floor where one received a nasty cut, the blood from which was found throughout the museum.
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Rockefeller Emerald Rocks Rockefeller Center
On June 20, jeweler Harry Winston snapped up what the firm called "the finest emerald in the world" during Christie's New York's Magnificent Jewels auction at Rockefeller Center.
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Sotheby's Summer Stroll
While you're waiting for the online catalog of the Vivien Leigh Collection at Sotheby's this coming autumn feel free to take a summer stroll through the second offering of philanthropist Marjorie S. Fisher's collection.
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Burma Bits
Burma gets an F from a resource governance index and more miners die in jade land. Exports are up for Q1 of the fiscal year but traders trash taxes.
- Mining, Migrants and Markets
- A bitty birdy
- And, as always, Bite-Sized Bits
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Eve and Her Jewel Casket
By Herbert P. Whitlock
In this article from Natural History, author Herbert P. Whitlock engages the reader in the same way he used to engage visitors to the Morgan Hall of Minerals and Gems every Saturday morning during his tenure as Curator of Mineralogy. He takes on quite a task: theorizing what it is about gemstones that captures the human imagination. From Eve onward.
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Note: Pala International selects much of its material in the interest of fostering a stimulating discourse on the topics of gems, gemology, and the gem industry. Therefore the opinions expressed here are not necessarily those held by the proprietors of Pala International.
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