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Precious Metals is a jewelry store in Sudbury, MA. We build custom pieces that range from traditional to way out there. Check out our web store and gallery.

Liz Taylor Dies at 79

Liz Taylor wearing the Taylor-Burton Diamond

Most people know of Liz Taylor’s love of diamonds. This article details the full scope of her impressive diamonds collection.

I read an article a few years ago (which I can unfortunately not find or properly source) that recounted a phone conversation between Taylor and one of [...]

Braille Jewelry- LOVE IT!!!

I’ve always been fascinated with braille. Both of my parents are eye doctors (one optometrist and one ophthalmologist), and worked closely with the Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) in Kansas City. I was amazed at how quickly the students there could read the little bumps, which to my fingers seemed completely random. At [...]

Coral Jewelry? Too precious to wear?

http://www.jewelers.org/about/j_whatwestandfor/coral.php

The Jewelers of America have issued an official position statement on the use of coral in jewelry and you can find a link to the position statement above. It is a fact that coral reefs are important ecosystems and they have been threatened by temperature change and over-harvesting. This is not to say that [...]

Electronic Jewelry

2 GB USB Dog Tag Medical ID Pendant- Stainless Steel

Electronic jewelry can mean a lot of different things these days. A quick web search will turn up things like this 2 GB USB dog tag medical ID pendant. Electronic jewelry like this and other wearable USB drive jewelry serve a real purpose and [...]

More Beads!

Our Natick and Weston beads will be ready in three weeks.

Busy with beads!

Wow, it seems like just yesterday it was June. All of a sudden there are Christmas decorations in CVS. Personally, I don’t do carols until after Thanksgiving, but I do love this time of year. We are working on building pieces for the store and lots of custom Christmas and Chanukah gifts. We just introduced [...]

MSPCA-Angell Walk for Animals

Precious Metals owner and goldsmith Ilah Cibis will be walking in this year’s Walk for Animals in Boston on September 12th. Please consider donating to this wonderful cause. The money raised through the Walk for Animals goes towards helping the hundreds of abandoned and abused animals that find their way to the MSPCA and the [...]

3 Thing You Need to Know Before Purchasing Jewelry Online

With a rise in online shopping, it would be foolish for any jewelry store, or wholesaler to not get in on the chance to broaden their clientele. But buyer beware there is such thing as a bad seller or fraudulent wholesaler. One must stop and think about the consequences of buying online, especially if they [...]

Ruby Red July

The birthstone for July is the ruby. A ruby is the red gem of the mineral corundum.The only natural gems harder than a ruby is a diamond and a moissanite. A ruby has a hardness of 9 on the mohs scale. All natural rubies have imperfections in them, such as color impurities and inclusions of [...]

The Other June Stones

Junes alternate birthstones.

June’s traditional birthstone is pearl (even though pearls are not a stones) but if you don’t like wearing pearls try out some of the alternative birthstones: Moonstone and Alexandrite.

Moonstone is a shimmering gemstone with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale. So wearers should be careful when handling it. Rainbow [...]