Tiffany Umbrella Charm

An umbrella or parasol is a canopy designed to protect against precipitation or sunlight. The term parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun, and umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain. Often the difference is the material; some parasols are not waterproof. Parasols are often meant to be fixed to one point and often used with patio tables or other outdoor furniture. Umbrellas are almost exclusively hand-held portable devices; however, parasols can also be hand-held. Umbrellas can be held as fashion accessories. The world umbrella is from the Latin word umbra, which in turn derives from the Ancient Greekómbros (όμβρος). Its meaning is shade or shadow. Brolly is an Australia, and South Africa, Bumbershoot is a fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century.

Umbrella is another synonym for the term parasol, which was first used as a protection against the scorching heat of the sun, “para” meaning stop or shield and “sol” meaning sun. The word “umbrella” has evolved from the Latin “umbella” (and “umbel” is a flat-topped rounded flower) or “umbra,” meaning “shaded.”

This Tiffany Umbrella Charm with a pear-shaped diamond in 18k white and yellow gold is £705. The carat total weight is .02. It is also available on an 18k gold chain, bracelet and necklace. When you see it nice charm, you just want to say Let it Rain.

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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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Grossularite and Diamond Drop Earrings

Platinum occurs naturally in the alluvial sands of various rivers, though there is little evidence of its use by ancient peoples. However, the metal was used by pre-Columbian Americans near modern-day Esmeraldas, Ecuador to produce artifacts of a white gold-platinum alloy. The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darien and Mexico, which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy. The alchemical symbol for platinum (shown above) was made by joining the symbols of silver and gold.

In 1741, Charles Wood, a British metallurgist, found various samples of Columbian platinum in Jamaica, which he sent to William Brownring for further investigation. Antonio Ulloa, also credited with the discovery of platinum, returned to Spain from the French Geodesic Mission in 1746 after having been there for eight years. His historical account of the expedition included a description of platinum as being neither separable nor calcinable. Ulloa also anticipated the discovery of platinum mines. After publishing the report in 1748, Ulloa did not continue to investigate the new metal. In 1758, he was sent to superintend mercury mining operations in Huancavelica.

In an exemplary tribute to fine craftsmanship, a floral motif of diamonds forms a wreath around stunning grossularite. Drop earrings with oval grossularites and pear-shaped and round brilliant diamonds in platinum, for pierced ears. Let’s view the specification of this diamond drop earrings in platinum valued $32,500: Oval grossularites, carat total weight 7.36; pear-shaped diamonds, carat total weight 1.72; round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight .79.

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Tiffany Iris Diamond Brooch

If pure platinum is found in placer deposits or other ores it is isolated from them by various methods of subtracting impurities. Because platinum is significantly denser than many of its impurities, the lighter impurities can be removed by simply floating them away in a water bath. Platinum is also non-magnetic, while nickel and iron are both magnetic. These two impurities are thus removed by running an electromagnet over the mixture. Because platinum has a higher melting point than most other substances, many impurities can be burned or melted away without melting the platinum. Finally, platinum is resistant to hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, while other substances are readily attacked by them. Metal impurities can be removed by stirring the mixture in either of the two acids and recovering the remaining platinum.

This Iris brooch with yellow sapphires, tsavorites and diamonds in platinum is valued $38,000. Let we have a look at the specification of this elegant and captivating brooch in platinum with yellow sapphires, tsavorites, round brilliant diamonds and 18k gold. Yellow sapphires, carat total weight 20.06; tsavorites, carat total weight .81; round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight .60.

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Tiffany Magic Starfish Brooch

Platinum exists in higher abundances on the Moon and in meteorites. Correspondingly, platinum is found in slightly higher abundances at sites of bolide impact on the Earth that are associated with resulting post-impact volcanism, and can be mined economically; the Sudbury is one such example. Platinum together with the rest of the platinum metals is obtained commercially as a by-product from nickel and copper mining and processing. During electrorefining of copper  , noble metals such as silver, gold and the platinum group metals as well as selenium and tellurium settle to the bottom of the cell as anode mud, which forms the starting point for the extraction of the platinum group metals.

This magical starfish is encrusted with pink opals, sapphires and diamonds that shimmer like the sand and the sea. The specifications are like this: Cabochon pink opals, carat total weight .43; cabochon pink sapphires, carat total weight .83; round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight 2.85. This beautiful starfish brooch values $22,000.

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Tiffany Heart Earrings

Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst. Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others; romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating; and attachment involves tolerating the spouse (or indeed the child) long enough to rear a child into infancy.

This Tiffany gets to the heart of the matter. The earrings with round brilliant diamonds in platinum for pierced ears is $1,950. The carat total weight is .38.

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