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Dix Noonan Webb to auction royal bracelet

Dix Noonan Webb has announced that an Art Deco cultured pearl and diamond bracelet owned by H.R.H. The Princess Margaret will be brought to auction on Tuesday 14 September 2021 and is estimated to fetch between £30,000 – £40,000. Comprising a double row of cultured pearls bordering a millegrain-set line…

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Merci Maman receives Queen’s Award for International Trade

Merci Maman has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2020 in the International Trade category for a second time.  The jewellery company was founded in 2007 by Béatrice and Arnaud de Montille, and now employs a team of 40 with three offices in London, Paris and Berlin. Two members of…

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Gemporia partners with jewellery designer Rebecca Sellors

British TV jewellery channel, Gemporia, has partnered with British jewellery designer Rebecca Sellors of C.W Sellors to create an exclusive collection of Blue John jewellery. Discovered nearly two thousand years ago, Blue John is a rare natural variety of Fluorite found exclusively on one hillside in the heart of the…

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Alex Monroe Jewellery to share success secrets in free webinar with Brightpearl

Tom Graham, ecommerce manager of Alex Monroe, will take part in a free webinar discussing the company’s secrets to success and retail strategies. In the 30-minute session hosted by Brightpearl, Graham will tell attendees how the business transitioned to be completely cloud-based and how they have kept up with changing…

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Benjamin Pritchard receives Goldsmiths’ Young Apprentice of the Year award

Former Goldsmiths’ apprentice Benjamin Pritchard has been named the Goldsmiths’ Young Apprentice of the Year. The medal, which Pritchard picked up from Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, at the Prince Philip Medal Awards Ceremony at Buckingham Palace, depicts the leopard head of the Livery Company’s coat of arms and was…

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Belfast jeweller awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honour list

Belfast jeweller Peter Lunn has been awarded with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honour list for service to commerce, charity and sport in Northern Ireland. Lunn, who is the executive chairman of Lunn’s jewellers which was founded by his father in 1954, a founding member and retired director of…

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Assay Office mourns the passing of former assay master

The Birmingham Assay Office has sadly announced the death of its former assay master, Bernard Ward OBE, at the age of 78.

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Backes & Strauss contributes to Chain of Hope Gala Ball auction

The 2012 Chain of Hope Annual Gala Ball, held on 8 November at the Natural History Museum in London, raised more than £700,000 for the charity, and a new timepiece proved to be a hit in the live auction.

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Jubilee marked by 10,000 diamonds display at Buckingham Palace

More than 10,000 diamonds set in pieces acquired by six monarchs over three centuries are to go on display at Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

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