Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-29
''PINKIE" rings
FOR WOMEN

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doesn't it? We cannot turn them
out fast enough for the American
women" said the foreign proprietor
of a quaint little Fifth avenue shop
to a reporter for the New York Sun,
where all sorts of the most wonder
full Oriental jewelry are to be found.
The shop itself is like bit Of Per-
STA transplanted to the New York
thoroughfaic Behind the screens
and embroidered hangings sit several
native goldbeaters carving out rings
and fancy jeweled ornaments after
their own fashion of workmanship
and their own eastern designs. There
is nothing American in this little
shop except the purchasers, and they
are of the class who can afford to
buy expensive trif1es.
Pinkie rings are the popular arti-
Gle at the Persian store. Not that
these Persian jewellers have any spec
ial desire to make ornaments for the
tiny finger of woman, but the pinkie
is the thing the women themselves
want.
We have to make the ring part
small" explained the foreign shop
keeper, but the stones and settings
are very large Most of these rings
are set in silver. The American wo-
men have fancy for heavy carved
silver bands with large oval stones
sunk in them. The lapis lazuli is at
present the most popular stone, and
we have set some exquisite shades OF
this ultramarine blue notified stone
polished until it looks like bit OF
the sparkling sea.
There are two kinds of lapis la
zuli generally sold. One is the real
lapis from Russia which can be cut
lin canoes and is used for signet
rings. The other side is not lapis at
all, though it is called so. AS a mat
ter of fact the Swiss lapis is manu-
featured stone, simply an ordinary
quartz artificially colofed with blue
This is lighter in shade than the
Russian, Persian or Chinese, and Is
very cheap.
The settings used for pinkit
rings, when they are made of silver
are hand carved and rather heavy
The same style is often made up Il
pure yellow gold and then the price
is three times that of the silver ring
The size oftenest sold for the littl.
finger of woman's hand is about al
inch long and as wide as the finge,
will stand. If there is any engraving
on the stone, then the surface is fiat
otherkise it rounds up quite high ant
is about a quarter of an inch thicl
| through the center.
! But lapis lazuli is by no mean
the only stone worn on the pinkie
1t is liked by blue eyed women Of
account of its beautiful coloring
Like the sapphire it is not an evenin,
stone. The lapis turns quite blacl
under artificial light. For this rea
I son matrix stones are set in pinki
rings. The opal matrix is a favorit
at present and it is of enough valu
to warrant our selling it by weigh
just as we do the precious stones.
The superstition attached to tn
opal does not hold with the matriS
| Evidently the brown stone in whicl
the rainbow colored pieces are i'm
bedded counteracts the bad effect o
the opal, and so it is considered SAT
for any one to wear opal matrix. I
goes particularly we'll with the brow,
summer dresses that are so fashion
able here.
We do not make two pieces o
jeMelry alike. Each American want
to have the only ring or. the onl
necklace of a kind. That is why W
keep so many jewellers employed get
ting up original designs to please GU
patrons and working up ornament
from their own suggestions.
So many women bring in cd
pieces of iewelry, some of them hay
, ing no relation whatever to eac
: other, and then we are asked to pu
them together in a single ornament
Necklaces are fashioned this way an
, frequently We get up unique and a,
tractive designs. A silver earrin
} from the orient will serve as a pend
: ant, then we use bracelet that wa
made perhaps in India, brooc
from Europe. a bangle from Chin;
and with this jeweIry rBtchwork W
; remodel and reconstruct until W
have an absolutely original ornameu
Z that would be impossible to dupl
cate.
/, Our workmen understand the Or
! entail art of manufacturing jewell
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