ZIPPO: Dates in History... June 5, 1895.George G. Blaisdell was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania - U.S.A. Early 1930s.At the Bradford Country Club in Bradford. Mr. Blaisdell* watched a friend awkwardly using a...
Intaglio Jewelry Intaglio is the opposite of cameo -- a subject is carved through the front side below the rim's surface. The subject on a cameo rises above the base.A significant percentage of an intaglio's...
Lapis lazuli Lapis lazuli is a gemstone of the kind that might have come straight out of the Arabian Nights: a deep blue with golden inclusions of pyrites which shimmer like little stars. This opaque, deep...