Tiffany Treasure Chest Charm

A treasure chest is a common element in modern fiction, gaming and video gaming. The primary idea behind the treasure chest is a romantic one, that pirates and other idealized criminals faced constant persecution and lived such fast-paced lives that they sometimes had to quickly dispose of their ill-gotten gain to return to and reclaim later.

Hence, the idea that treasure could easily be held in a wooden chest and buried, with a treasure map to guide the burier (or a lucky recipient of the map) back, was born.

It seems that the myth of buried treasure far outweighed the reality. Partially responsible for this phenomenon is the bragging of such seamen as Captain Kidd, though undoubtedly many others as well (180ff).

More impacting is the traditional line of pirate fiction, beginning with Robert Louis Stevenson’s early novel Treasure Island up to and including Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean. David Cordingly states that “The effect of Treasure Island on our perception of pirates cannot be overestimated,” and says of the idea of treasure maps leading to buried treasure that, “[I]t is an entirely fictional device”.

This Treasure Chest charm in 18k gold with a round brilliant diamond, pink and blue sapphires inside is valued as £1,450. And the Charm opens and closes. It is also available on an 18k gold chain, bracelet and necklace. The detailed specifications like this Sapphire, carat total weight .07; pink sapphire, carat total weight .07; round brilliant diamond, carat total weight .016.

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Tiffany Ice Skate Charm with Blue and White Enamel

Although most people equate high-heeled shoes with women, this is not only not the case throughout history, it is still not the case today.

Mongolian horsemen were among the first to use heels as means to keep their feet from sliding out of their stirrups. It is also well known that Egyptian butchers wore high heels so they would not step directly in offal.

Currently, many men throughout the Western world, including Europe, North American, and elsewhere, wear high-heeled shoes on a regular basis, and for a variety of reasons. High-heeled male dance shoes (often called Cuban heel or Latin heel shoes) are fairly common, and are not considered effeminate.
This ice skate charm with round brilliant diamonds and Blue and white enamel finish in platinum is from Tiffany. It is also available on a platinum chain. This winter game charm is £1,325.

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Tiffany Ice Skate Charm

Around 1660, a shoemaker named Nicholas Lestage designed high heeled shoes for Louis XIV. Some were more than four inches (ten cm), and most were decorated in various battle scenes. The resulting high “Louis heels” subsequently became fashionable for ladies. Today the term is used to refer to heels with a concave curve and outward taper at the bottom similar to those worn by Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. (They are also sometimes called “Pompadour heels”.)

The late 18th-Century trend toward lower heels had much to do with the French Revolution. During the revolution, high heels became associated with opulence. Since people wished to avoid the appearance of wealth, heels were largely eliminated from the common market for both men and women. In the wake of the French Revolution heels become lower than at any time in the 18th century.

This ice skate charm from Tiffany is a sparkling style with a fun splash of color with round brilliant diamonds and emeralds in platinum. Square emeralds, carat total weight .05; round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight .26. It is £1,675.

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Tiffany Shoe Charm

Around 1500, European nobility developed heels as a separate part of their shoes, primarily as a means to help keep their feet in the stirrups. The wear of heels by men quickly became the fashion norm, primarily in the courts, and this practice spawned the term, “well-heeled” as a reference to those who could afford the costlier shoes. Heelwear by men continued until shortly before the French Revolution, but resurfaced in the 1970s, and again in modern times.

The first officially recorded instance of the wear of high heels involved the 1533 marriage between Catherine de’Medici with the Duke of Orleans. She wore heels made in Florence for her wedding, and as a result, Italian high heels became the norm for ladies of the Duke’s court in France. Mary Tudor, another short monarch, wore heels as high as possible. From this period until the early 19th century, high heels are frequently in vogue for both sexes.

This mini size shoe charm with round brilliant diamonds in platinum is £965. The diamonds on the shoe carat total weight is .14. And it is also available on a platinum chain.

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Tiffany High Heel Charm

A heel is the projection at the back of a shoe which rests below the heel hone. The shoe heel is used to improve the balance of the shoe or for decorative purposes. Sometimes raised, the high heel is common to a form of shoe often worn by women but sometimes by men too. See also stiletto heel.

High heels are not a modern invention. Rather, they enjoy a rich and varied history, for both men as well as women. Controversy exists over when high heels were first invented, but the consensus is that heels were worn by both men and women throughout the world for many centuries and for a variety of reasons.

Although high heeled shoes are depicted in ancient Egyptian murals on tombs and temples, the earliest recorded instance of men or women wearing an elevated shoe comes from Hellenic times. It is suspected that the wear of an elevated sole, or heel, occurred centuries before, but there is little direct evidence to support this, although there is indeed much indirect evidence that lends credence to the use of high heels by both men and women for many reasons.

Here we see the high heel shoe charm from Tiffany is a sparkling style with a fun splash of color shoe with round brilliant diamonds in platinum with red enamel. It is also available on a 16” platinum chain. This charm is £1,150.

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Movie: High School Musical 1

With a plot described by the author and numerous critics as a modern adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, High School Musical is a story about two high school juniors from rival cliques- Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a beautiful and shy transfer student who excels in math and science. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school musical, and as a result, divide the school. Despite other students’ attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring others along the way not to “stick to the status quo”.

High School Musical was filmed at East High School located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the auditorium of Murray High School, and Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School was also the set of several other Disney productions: Take Down (1978), Read It and WEEP (2006), Minytemen (2008) and High School Musical: Get in the Picture (2008).

East High School’s basketball star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and math-whiz Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) meet at a New Year’s Eve party at a ski lodge over Christmas Break. Here, they take part in a karaoke contest and sing (”Start Of Something New”). They discover they have a great chemistry between them and end up exchanging numbers.

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