The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
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Enamels Increasing In Favor.
The American Watchmakars,, Jew
elers' and Silversmiths' journal, an
excellent periodical Just started in
New York by Shaw & Co., gives the
iohowlng information concerning the
latest fashions in jewelry:
FINE corals are always in, demand.
night shades OF pink especially sc; good
: grades selling at $3.50 per ounce, while
some exceeding choice and unexcep-
uonal IN color bring as much as $500
per ounce. Very elegant designs with
small diamonds are used as SETTINGS
Tor the finest grades of coral. Tur-
quoises are fast coming into notice
though the demand for stones of anv
size is rare. Very elegant brooches,
made up OF small stones, cut in pc
cullar form, are being used. The
taste for enamel is increasing. De-
signs from Boucher and Vatican are
being reproduced, perfect j. chez
| d'9uUres of art, which are set in deli
cate mountings with pearls and dia-
monds. One variety, with figures on
a black background, tending to throw
out the picture, is that of introducing
small diamond sparks into the pictures
themselves. An American taste Is rsp-
idly being formed in accordance with
better canons of art, and quality is tax
ing precedence of quantity, the de-
mand for these perfect little pictures
marks a decided improvement in the
wants of the trade. v -as,
Nothing but the finest Canoes seem
to satisfy the wearers OF these beauti-
full ornaments. Taste seems rather
inclined to select those having light
grounds; and dark olives and browns
are somewhat passe. Paris seems to
have lost something in the business of
cameo cutting. The workmen, being
Germans, have been forced to return
to their own country. Very elaborate
mountings are the fashion, either with
single rows of pearls, or with diamonds,
In no branch of the trade has such an
Improvement been made as in the Sc
lection OF canoes. Rough work, or
careless drawing, or poor subjects,
lind hardly any sale. The revolution
in ;.'I
for clusters of small stones, seems to
be gaining ground. The old style of
Louis XIV, of using silver as more in
keeping with the color ofthe diamonds,
is fast getting to be fashionable. The
silver has backing of gold This
change is, however, only applicable to
small stones; large soltaires present
ing no great differences as to setting
from former methods. Perhaps the
finest stone in New York is one now
unset held by one Of the first jewellers
IN the United States, at So, 900; be-
'ides size, it is unique as to purity and
perfection Of shape.
LoCKETs AND NECKLACES
ire now leading articles. Instead of q
oar1tre with a brooch, locket, neck
ace, and earrings make up the set,
he necklace being sometimes used as
! bracelet. Cable chains are the most
with good, massive links,
lelicately ornamented with pretty deep
,rooving. Antique forms, with con-
inuous pendants reaching all along
he necklace, are among the choicest
lesigns. For lockets, the shapes are
lockets with monograms
n diamonds being very popular. One
# the most beautiful among the many
lovelties are black onyx crosses, some
hree inches in length, ornamented
With very delicate sprays, in small
diamonds and rubies initiating foliage;
hese are worn around the neck, sus-
'ended from o blSsk velvet ribbon.
Onyx pendant earrings, ornamented in
he same way, go with the crosses.
iold crosses, very delicate in design,
nth diamonds and pearls, will shortly
% introduced.
sCARF-RNGS
eem to be coming into fashion again.
me of the prettiest is collar-stud
nd ring for scarf combined. Yacht
lg and sporting devices will be much
sed. For gentlemen's chains, in
designs are being manufac-
lred for the spring trade. Something
ew is q double chain, to be attached
4 the middle to the waistcoat button.
N endless variety Of new objects, COM.
o0ed in the best feeling, and carefully
nished, will be presented this spring,
hich will rival the products of the
est European workshops. .pr
PEARLS.
Messrs. Tiffany Co. lately sold
vo of the finest strings of Oriental
earls ever disposed of in this country.
Te understand the price paid for them
as $4,000. As to color and shape,
ley were unique. Itwould be strange
the beautiful American pearl which
,und its way to the Empress Eugenie's
,sket should, by the caprices of for
Inc, be brought back once more to its
lace of origin. .E..
THE EX-FNpTRE.