2024 IAC GJ - Eureka Moments with Monumental Impacts: Innovations and Discoveries that Changed the Jewelry World

Session Description

The jewelry we enjoy today is rooted in past centuries technology and discoveries.  Since 1851 World Expositions flattened the world becoming a forum for sharing/inspiring ideas and techniques while today the internet explodes with new knowledge.  Opportunities to be faster, cheaper, or finer, to meet consumer demand and price point, comes from borrowing techniques from other industries, discovering gemstones as a byproduct of other mining, or developing the next new wonder. This lecture studies the transitions/adaptations/improvements/booms/busts of our industry and enables you to date pieces and gain appreciation for those that came before us and changed our world.

Speaker

Starla Turner, GG, FGA
Suzanne Martinez, GG

Continuing Education

Review of this session recording will award 1.8 CE hour. 

CPE credit is not awarded for this pre-recorded offering. 

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1.00 CE credit  |  Certificate available
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