Archive for the ‘Mardon Exclusive Jewelry’ Category
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Every year for Christmas, we jewelers put our best foot forward, looking to make special pieces that will find their way into Santa’s sleigh. This year, I was able to find some spare hours to make these three special rings that feature one of the world’s most unique gemstones, the American Fire Agate.
Tags: fire agate, Fire Agate Studio, One Track Mine
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The latest addition to our Famous Raincross Collection of fine jewelry is simply stunning! We think our fine silver pendant wonderfully captures the unique style and bright colors of the orange crate art from the heyday of California citrus.
Tags: CAD/CAM, citrus colony, enamel, Magick, orange crate labels, Viszu
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
We want to thank our loyal friends and fans who once again voted Mardon the Best Jeweler in Riverside for the third year in a row! Read about it in the annual Press Enterprise Reader’s Choice supplement in today’s paper. We truly appreciate your support!
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Wife Kaye just created this charming necklace for a client, using relatively inexpensive materials including the baroque ammolite center, a freshwater cultured pearl, glass beads with copper and silver wrapped wire. This particular lady likes play-of-color, asymmetry and a slightly funky look for not a lot of cost– Kaye captured her wishes perfectly!
Tags: Alberta, ammolite, ammonite, calcentine, Canad, Custom Jewelry, korite, Tucson Gem Show, wrapped wire
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Celebrity brides are becoming known by their engagement ring choices, and the colored gemstone ring is very much in the limelight. Princess Kate, in the wedding of the decade, wore “The Ring“, her famous heirloom sapphire and diamond ring, Penelope Cruz is setting style with her sapphire and diamond ring, and Jessica Simpson is stunning […]
Tags: emerald, natural alexandrite, Padparadscha, pink sapphire, Ruby, Sapphire, spessartite garnet, spinel, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, unheated ruby
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
We always love the stories that go along with our jewelry, especially the ones about the special engagement or wedding rings of our customers. I just received this picture via email from a client in London, England, showing the magnificent ruby his bride is now wearing.
Tags: Burma ruby, colored gem engagement ring, Engagement Ring, pigeon's blood red, pigeon's blood ruby, Princess Kate
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
The Mardon team created this very special ring just in time to celebrate the 86th birthday of Harold Swanson, my father-in-law. Like many of his generation, he left high school as soon as he was of age and enlisted in the military to fight WWII. As a Navy sailor, he trained for submarine service, but […]
Tags: CAD jewelry design, custom WWII ring, The Lucky Ship, USS Wilkes, WWII
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
These gorgeous perfectly matched solid black opal earrings illustrate the global reach of the gem trade. We acquired the stones a few years back from an Aussie opal cutter in Lightning Ridge, Australia, then sent them to Nepal last year. Each leg of their journey was about 8,000 miles, so these opals have traveled the […]
Tags: black opal, blue spinel, cat's eye chrysoberyl, chrome diopside, fire opal, Himalaya mountains, Kathmandu, Nepal, red spinel, spectrolite, star sapphire, Tanzanite
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
This beautiful 18K gold ring we had made in the high Himalaya Mountains of Nepal shows the true magic of the Cat's Eye gem. Cat's Eye is an optical phenomenon seen in many different gems, including emerald, aquamarine, and tourmaline, to name a few, but the classic Cat's Eye effect is best exhibited in the […]
Tags: Cat's Eye, chatoyance, chrysoberyl cat's eye, Himalaya mountains, Nepal
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
We’ve just completed this gorgeous sapphire and diamond ring, inspired by the engagement ring of Lady Diana and soon-to-be Lady Kate. This basic design, where a colored gemstone is surrounded by a circlet of diamonds, has been a favorite for centuries. Since everybody and their uncle has been doing versions of the ring, we might […]
Tags: Ceylon sapphire, Crown Jeweller, Engagement Ring, Garrard's of Mayfair, Kate Middleton, Lady Diana, Mardon, Prince William, provenance, Rapid Prototype, Rapid Protoype Machine, the royals
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