Mark Smelzer

8 Safety Tips From JSA To Secure Your Store This Holiday Season

In holiday jewelry security, little things like extra sales training go a long way in showing you care for the safety of your clients and employees,...

Best of Show Spectrum and Classical Lezlie Slavens Cant Look Away Paraiba Tourmaline necklace

AGTA Names 2026 Spectrum and Cutting Edge Award Winners

Lezlie Slavens of Luxe Fine Jewelry and Allen Kleiman of A. Kleiman & Co. took Best of Show honors in the 2026 Spectrum & Cutting Edge...

Audemars Piguet Enters the Pre-Owned Market With The Watch Keepers

Audemars Piguet (AP) has introduced its new Watch Keepers service, its much-anticipated official digital marketplace and certified pre-owned...

500 Years of British Royal Jewelry Headed to Buckingham Palace Exhibition

The Royal Collection Trust will bring together five centuries of British royal jewelry for a major exhibition in The King’s Gallery at Buckingham...

An 81-Ct. Paraíba Tourmaline Tops Bonhams’ Oct. 29 Paris Jewelry Sale

Bonhams is placing a Kat Florence necklace anchored by an 81.17 ct. paraiba tourmaline at the top of its Paris jewelry auction on Oct. 29. The...

PGI Restructures, Closing Offices as It Concentrates on China and India

Platinum Guild International (PGI) is restructuring its global presence, which will result in the closures of four offices, including its New York...

How a Texas Jeweler Ended Up Sharing Space With a Cake and Coffee Bar

Nacols Jewelry may be the world's only jeweler where the smell of fresh baked goods is constantly wafting through the store. "You get a little...

Elmwood’s to Offer Pendant Bearing Tsar Alexander I’s Monogram

Elmwood's will auction a circa-1810 pendant carrying the monogram of Tsar Alexander I, the ruler who helped lead the coalition against Napoleon. It...

Diamond Producers Council Calls CIBJO’s “Synthetic” Mandate “Biased and Deceptive”

Lab-grown diamond advocates the Diamond Producers Council said it rejects the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) recommendation that jewelers use...