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“Forever love” — Diamond To most people, this is the finest gemstone of them all — and we have been amazed by its properties and beauties since earliest times. For its unsurpassed hardness— diamond is right at the apex of Moh’s Scale — the Greeks gave the name adamas to…

In the fourteenth century, Sir John Mandeville recorded that whoever owned a ruby was assured of a peaceful coexistence with all men, able to live a tranquil life in the knowledge that his rank and lands would not be taken away from him. Once he had touched the four corners…

It is seems that the sapphire came to be favoured by early Christians as suitable for setting into ecclesiastical rings, prompting Pope Innocent III to issue a decree ruling that: “the ring of a Bishop should be made of pure gold and set with an unengraved sapphire because this stone…

“Emeralds have been linked with the Roman goddess of the forest, Diana(Artemis in Greek mythology),also considered the guardian of women and young girls and the patron of and the patron of childbirth. According to Dr Rowland, working in the seventeenth century, salts and tinctures of emerald “doth wonders in dysenteries…

Until the 1800s, jade was thought to be just one stone, but we now know that there are two types—nephrite and jadeite. Similar in appearance, both are fine and hard enough to have been carved into cutting tools and weapons by the ancients and to have been used for all…

“searching the wave I won therefrom a pearl Moonlike and glorious, such as Kings might buy Emptying their treasury.” —Matthew Arnold,Poet The pearl, we are told, is a thing of beauty and a “joy forever”. And so, pearl has been cherished both by men and by women for many thousands…

The tourmaline is the birthstone of those born in the month of October as it symbolizes the abundance of the fruitful and colourful energy of this harvest month. Because of its multicolour nature, the tourmaline is one of the rare semi-precious gemstones that easily evokes a genuine vibration of happiness…

Grey years ago a man lived in the East, Who did possess a ring of worth immense From a beloved hand. Opal the stone, which flashed a hundred bright and beauteous hues, and had the power to make beloved of God, and Man the blessed and fortunate. — Lessing, in…

“...to resist melancholy and poison, stop the spitting of blood and dissolve tartar in the body” —William Rowland, the eminent Physician, on the special medicine prepared from GARNET, 1669 Garnet is the stone associated with birth and the month of January. It is also noted for its toughness. Since earliest…

Peridot is mentioned in many ancient references as It is mentioned throughout the Bible, and early Christians considered it sacred. Today still, Catholic Bishops traditionally wear a ring of peridot as a symbol of purity and morality. The peridot was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who…