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• Birthstones & Gems
  Birthstones and related gems with their hsitories, facts, and stories.
  
  
  • January Birthstone - Garnet birthstones
    Garnets, the January birthstone, have been widely known for thousands of years. Even Noah, it is reported, used a lantern from Garnet in order to safely steer his Ark through the darkness of the night
    
    
  • February Birthstone, the Amethyst
    The amethyst is the february birthstone and, in finer quality examples, is a beautiful purple color.
    
    
  • March Birthstone - Aquamarine
    Aquamarine is the traditional birth stone for March. It is also the accepted anniversary gem for the 19th year of marriage.
    
    
  • Diamonds, the April Birthstone
    April's birthstone is the perennial first choice for engagement rings, but is it also the anniversary gem for the 10th and 60th years of marriage
    
    
  • May Birthstone - Emerald
    The May birthstone is the emerald. If you were born in May then this gorgeous green stone will bring luck to its wearer in the month of May and just looks great reagardless of the month
    
    
  • June Birthstone - the Pearl
    Pearls, of course, are formed when a tiny grain of sand or mineral lodges in the body of certan mollusks, oysters, for example, and the animal responds to that irritating grain by secreting nacre.
    
    
  • July Birthstone - Red Red Ruby
    The Ruby's rich red color speaks of love and passion and fire. Some have said that the July birthstone gets its color from an everlasting eternal fire...
    
    
  • August Birthstone - Peridot
    A beautiful green to yellow-green in color, the peridot is often mistake for an emerald. In fact, legend has it that Queen Cleopatra preferred Peridot over other gems...
    
    
  • September Birthstone -Sapphire
    Sapphire is the birthstone for September and the gemstone given for anniversaries of the 5th and 45th years of marriage.
    
    
  • October Birthstone - Opal
    There are several october birthstones, depending on which tradition you want to look at. Those who believe in the older menaings of gems scoff at the modern list
    
    
  • November Birthstone - Citrine
    The traditional november birthstone is also Citrine, but the mystical tradition has the pearl and the Ayurvedics use the Topaz.
    
    
  • December Birthstone - Topaz
    December’s recognized birthstone is the Blue Topaz. This blue gemstone is the traditional anniversary gemstone for a couple’s fourth anniversary.
    
    
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  • Alexandrite Gemstone Jewelry
    Alexandrite is a rather rare and unusual gem. One of it's properties is that its color changes depending on the light.
    
    
  • Agate Jewelry
    
    
  • Amber & Amber Jewelry
    Amber, the gem of a stone that's not really a gemstone at all, is actually fossilized pine sap.
    
    
  • Amethyst Jewelry | Amethyst Gems
    
    
  • Aquamarine
    
    
  • Beryl
    
    
  • Chrysolite
    
    
  • Chrysoprase
    
    
  • Diamond
    
    
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    • Herkimer Diamonds
      
      
  • Emerald
    
    
  • Garnet
    
    
  • Jacinth
    
    
  • Jasper
    
    
  • Moonstone
    
    
  • Onyx
    
    
  • Opal
    
    
  • Pearls
    
    
  • Pearls 2
    
    
  • Peridot
    
    
  • Ruby
    
    
  • Sapphire
    
    
  • Topaz
    
    
  • Tourmaline
    
    
  • Turquoise
    
    
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