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As fall approaches, students head back to school and it starts getting dark earlier again, we are gearing up for a few changes here at Anatometal too. Be on the look out for the Fall 2012 edition of our catalog to be out soon. There are also rumors of new jewelry designs in the works! What are your favorite things about the changing seasons? Us? We are looking forward to cuddling up next to a fire with a big cup of hot cocoa, all those lovely pumpkin flavored treats that hit around this time of year, and of course, the colors of fall for inspiration!
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| These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Things |
Here at Anatometal we often get requests for pictures of our gemstones all together, or the shades of the gemstones lined up, etc. So recently we started a project of photographing them all. For September, we feature our Brilliant-cut stones. In the following months we will follow up with all the rest like Emerald-cut, Pear-cut, Marquise-cut, Oval-cut, our Cabochons and Opals.  synthetic Garnet - synthetic Ruby - Red CZ - Salmon Pink CZ - Pink CZ
 Champagne CZ - Amber Yellow CZ - synthetic Citrine - synthetic Tangerine - Brown CZ
 Mint Green CZ - synthetic Emerald - Green CZ - synthetic Peridot
 synthetic Aquamarine - Arctic Blue CZ - synthetic Blue Zircon - synthetic Sapphire
 synthetic Alexandrite - synthetic Amethyst - synthetic Tanzanite - Lavender CZ
 Black CZ - CZ - synthetic Faceted Opal
*All Stones shown in 6mm and 4mm except for Black CZ, CZ and synthetic Facted Opal which are shown in 4mm. Synthetic Faceted Opal not available in 6mm.
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Meet Anatometal
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We know how much you love your Anatometal and what it stands for: handcrafted right here in the USA, made with only the highest quality materials. There is so much that goes into each piece as it moves from our machine shop, to the polishing room, to the gold room, through quality assurance, packaging, and to our shipping department. We thought you would like to get to know the people who make that Gemmed Eyelet, Heart Navel Curve, and Nostril Screw possible! In the coming months, we will be invading all the departments here at Anatometal Headquarters and bringing our hard workers right to you!
This month we bring you:
Amanda
Anatometal: What do you do here at Anatometal?
Amanda: I go where I am needed. I package the Katana Needles, I help out in the shipping department and I am learning to help out in the gold room too!.
Anatometal: How long have you worked for Anatometal?
Amanda: Over two years now!
Anatometal: What is your favorite piece that Anatometal makes?
Amanda: That's and easy one! My Gold Hearts!
Anatometal: Tell us three things about yourself.
Amanda: Ooooo this is tougher. Ok, I was a piercer for 8 years, I have a dog named Lucy and I bring her to work every day; she is ball obsessed. And I love beets, I really do, I can't get enough.
Anatometal: Ninjas or Pirates?
Amanda: Ninjas, I think Pirates would be smelly.
Thanks for letting us get to know you a bit Amanda! Who will be featured next month? Be sure to check back to find out!
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The Hope Diamond
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The Hope Diamond, also known as "Le bleu de France" or "Le Bijou du Roi", is a large, 45.52-carat, deep-blue diamond, now housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. It is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure, but exhibits red phosphorescence after exposure to ultraviolet light. The Hope Diamond has a long recorded history with few gaps in which it changed hands numerous times on its way from India to France to Britain,and finally to the United States; it is often described as the "most famous diamond in the world".
Several accounts based on remarks written by the gem's first known owner, French gem merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier, suggest the gemstone originated in India, from the Kollur mine in the seventeenth century. It is unclear who had initially owned the gemstone, whether it had been found, by whom, and in what condition. But the first historical records suggest that Tavernier obtained the stone, possibly by purchase or by theft; and brought the large uncut stone to Paris which was the first known precursor to the Hope Diamond. This large stone became known as the Tavernier Blue diamond. It was a crudely cut triangular shaped stone of 115 carats. Tavernier's book, the Six Voyages, contains sketches of several large diamonds that he sold to Louis XIV in possibly 1668 or 1669, including the Tavernier Blue Diamond.  IV commissioned the court jeweler Sieur Pitau, to re-cut the Tavernier Blue, resulting in a 67.125-carat stone which royal inventories thereafter listed as the Blue Diamond of the Crown of France, also called the French Blue. The king had the stone set on a cravat-pin; gold, and supported by a ribbon for the neck which was worn by the king during ceremonies. In 1749, Louis' descendant, King Louis XV, had the French Blue set into a more elaborate jeweled pendant for the Order of the Golden Fleece by court jeweler Andre Jacquemin.
During the early stages of the French Revolution, a group of thieves broke into the Garde-Meuble and stole most of the Crown Jewels during a five-day looting spree. Many jewels were later recovered, but the French Blue was not among them, disappearing temporarily from history. The exact rock known as the French Blue was never seen again, many historians are certain it was re-cut during this decades-long period of anonymity, probably into two pieces, and the larger one became the Hope Diamond.
A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812; the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed. The rock was a "massive blue stone of 45.54 carats", and it is often pointed out that this date was almost exactly 20 years after the theft of the French Blue, just as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.
Eliason's diamond may have been acquired by King George IV of Great Britain, however there is no record of the ownership in the Royal Archives at Windsor, only some secondary evidence exists in the form of contemporary writings and artwork. George IV tended to co-mingle t he state property of the Crown Jewels with family heirlooms and his own personal property. After the king's death in 1830, it has been alleged that some of this mixed collection was stolen by his mistress, Lady Conyngham, and some of his remaining personal items were discreetly liquidated to cover the many debts he had left behind.
There was a report that the gemstone was bought by a wealthy London banker named Thomas Hope for either $65,000 or $90,000. After falling under the ownership of the Hope family, and remaining in its possession for more than half a century, it came to be known officially as the "Hope Diamond". In 1839, the Hope Diamond appeared in a published catalog of the gem collection of Henry Philip Hope who was a member of the prominent Anglo-Dutch banking family. The stone was set in a fairly simple medallion surrounded by many smaller white diamonds. The same year as the publication of his collection catalog, Henry Phillip Hope died and his three nephews fought in court for ten years over his inheritance; ultimately the collection was split up.
The oldest nephew, Henry Thomas Hope, received eight of the most valuable gems including the Hope Diamond. It was then displayed in the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 and Paris Exhibition Universelle in 1855, but was usually kept in a bank vault. Through further inheritances the diamond ended up in the possession of Lord Francis Hope who sold the diamond to Adolph Weil, a London jewel merchant. Weil later sold the stone to a New York-based diamond dealer Simon Frankel, who took it to New York. There, it was evaluated to be worth $141,032.
 Throughout the next five decades, the Hope Diamond changed hands time and time again. Some sold it after becoming spooked by the "curse", some sold it to pay off debts. Eventually it was purchased by diamond merchant Harry Winston. Over the next 10 years, Winston exhibited the necklace in his "Court of Jewels," a tour of jewels around the United States, as well as at various charity balls and at the August 1958 Canadian National Exhibition. During this time, he had the Hope Diamond's bottom facet slightly re-cut to increase its brilliance.
Mineralogist George Switzer is credited with persuading Harry Winston to present the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian for a proposed national gem collection to be housed at the museum. On November 10, 1958, Winston donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, where it became Specimen #217868, sending it through U.S. Mail in a box wrapped in brown paper, insured via registered mail at a cost of $145.29.
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Fan photo of the month
| We get so many great pictures every week of our fans wearing their Anatometal, we thought this would be a great place to show em' off! If you would like our Anatoworld to see your bling, post your pictures to our Facebook page, submit them to our Tumblr page or email them to heather.anatometal@gmail.com. We can't wait to see them!
- Captive Bead Ring with Custom Gem Bezel in ASTM F-136 titanium, anodized dark purple; Mint Green CZ, CZ, synthetic Faceted Opal gems |
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