Timeline  This is a timeline of jewellery production from the first uses of metal in history to the Renaissance    BC  Uses of copper in Anatolia Iran and Eastern Europe   BC  Uses of copper in Egypt   BC  Smelting technology for copper in Egypt and Iran   BC  Use of natural zinccopper alloy in Egypt   BC  Gold makes an appearance in Egyptian jewellery   BC  Egypt and Iran makeing simple hammered iron beads   BC  The Middle East employ semimassproduction   BC  First signs of the swagging technique   BC  Beaded wires began to be used   BC  Egyptians using copperlead alloys   BC  True iron production technology in Near East   BC  The intentional addition of silver and copper to gold   BC  Gold wires are characterised by seam lines that follow a spiral path along the wire   BC  Use of patterned punches   BC  Earplugs and earrings become popular in Egypt   BC  Egypt Amarna period using resin and mud for repouss backing   BC  Deliberate addition of zinc to copper in Canaan   BC  Philistines have iron   BC  Very copper rich gold alloys popular in Egypt   BC  Persian sheet bronze work mm thick   BC  The start of true engraving   BC  The Greeks have iron   BC  Worlds oldest coinage in Lydia   BC  In Greece jewellery is still very rare   BC  Hafted hammers were being used in some parts   BC  Iron in use in the British Isles   BC  Greeks using Beeswax for filler in repouss   BC  Use of combined punches and dies of bronze   BC  Animal or humanheaded hoop earrings were popular   BC  Diadems are first seen   BC  Red Coral popular in Celtic jewellery  AD   Start of the Roman period where addition of silver to gold becomes almost unknown  AD   Sulphur fills hollow gold items throughout the Roman Empire  AD   Tin rings found in Nubia  AD   Lead becomes more common in places  AD   Pewter jewellery is made  AD   A shale die is found on Great Britain  AD   The Renaissance  AD   Art Nouveau jewellery  Famous jewellers  Elias Akaoui  founder of Akaoui stores in Cairo Egypt  Paolo Bulgari  Chairman of Bulgari  Pierre Cartier  Cofounder of Cartier SA  Peter Carl Faberg  Russian jeweller best known for the fabulous Faberg eggs  Ian Harris  Jewellery expert to the BBCs Antiques Roadshow Director of N Bloom  Son  Scott Kay  Founder of Scott Kay Inc a bridal jewelry company  Kenneth Jay Lane  founder of Kenneth Jay Lane Inc  Robert Lee Morris  influential in the jewelryasart movement  Charles Lewis Tiffany  founder of Tiffany  Co  Sotirios Voulgaris  founder of Bulgari   Sound of jewellery   The sound of jewellery has played an enermous part in many stories poems and religious literature more details and sources to come Different jewellery creates different sounds ie plastic bangles create a high pitched clink sound while others such as baxelite produce a clunck sound Knowing how a particular piece of jewellery sounds can help someone identify whether or not a piece of jewellery is fake Indeed people have written about the sound of fake gold and jewel makers such as Sharon Alouf a famous jeweler have praised the high frequency pitched noise of gold banglesmost likely real gold she is wearing To this day the jeweler claims the sound of bangles clinking together is very soothing to me It always reminds me of motherhoodAlouf is even partial to particular tones Gold produces my favorite sound she says the pitch is higher and clearer which I find energizing