Culture of Jewelry.
Current knowledge of ancient jewelry comes largely from the preservation of personal objects in tombs or portraits in surviving paintings and sculptures.

One of the most noteable being the ancient Egyptians, who's processes of ornamenting metals are still employed today. They produced skillfully, chased, engraved, soldered, repousse and inlaid jewelry, they used commonly gold and silver and inlaid in these metals with semiprecious stones, enamel and glass. The most notable jewelry from anicent Egypt is from the 18th Dynasty

Other Cultures that are notable cultures in the making of jewelry were Middle Eastern from the 3rd and 2nd millennia that produced techinques in granulation, filigree, inlaid gems, closisonna and champleve enamel. Greek and Roman jewelry, gave way to the art of cameo cutting. Scythian Jewelry, the Byzantine use of jewels are also notable. A notable Medieval technique was the use of garnet slices into metal cells in the 7th Century. Other notable Jewelry came during the Renaissance times and the 17th and 18th century.

Interesting facts about gold and costume jewelry.
Gold the metal of the Gods, thought to have come from the Sun. Gold in its pure form is 24 carats, it is a soft metal, much like lead metal, it bends easily. Over the ages man has found that in order to make more durable jewelry, gold had to be mixed with harder metals. This is the reason jewelry is not made in pure gold, it comes in 18 carats, 14 carats and 10 carats, 10 carats being the one with less gold. It also is used to plate or layer other metals to make jewelry often called costume jewelry.

The popularity of costume jewelry grew when Movie Stars from Hollywood started wearing costume jewelry in films and in real life around the 1940s. Beauty and orginality of design as well as careful craftmanship marks many pieces from the 30s, 40s and even today's craftmanship is known for it's quality. Today antique costume jewelry is enjoying a huge revival and desirability that can fetch thousands of dollars on the market. It is known that many high class celebrities use costume jewelry in public, such as the Queen of England who uses costume jewelry copies of her expensive jewelry in public and leave the orginal jewelry in her safety diposit box under guard. Some of today's celebrities who favor costume jewelry are Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Diane Deaton, Tina Turner, Madonna, Prince, Demi Moore, Courtney Love and Nicotette Sheridan. I have a beautiful collection of silver jewelry and costume jewelry layered in 18 carat gold with gem cut stones at Super Discounts prices that any one can afford, Check out my Super Discounts and get your own high quality costume jewelry and dress like a real celebrity, at my prices you can have more jewelry than the Queen of England. Remember, this can be a investment for the future, well taken care of, high quality costume jewelry can grow in value over the years. Check out the necklace in the photo, it is fit for a Queen.

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