Jewelry

The holiday season begins tomorrow, and OXOXO gallery, specializing in jewelry, tomorrow opens its Holiday Invitational Exhibition 1998. The international exhibit contains work by 25 art jewelers. Prominent names include German artist Andre Ribeiro, Canadian artist Barbara Stutman, Baltimoreans Joyce J. Scott, Clara Arana and Shana Kroiz, and Baltimorean working in London Julie Flanigan Hill. Unusual items include a ring in the form of a bucket of pears, a neckpiece and bracelets made of rubber and diamonds, and pieces made with beach and river stones.

Jewelry makers Cynthia Alderdice and Lois Mansfield are meticulously forging the past to the present with chains of silver, copper and gold. The pendants and necklaces for sale in their Annapolis shop use such modern-day tools as computers to help them replicate designs and effects that are nearly 2,000 years old. For example, a necklace called "Awakening" features a pendant made from 22-karat gold and featuring cloisonne, a type of enameled...

JEWELRY THAT lasts has a story. The centuries-old pieces in museums today were saved because they were cherished beyond their face value. Merely pretty ornaments have long since been melted into ingots and the stones reset into newer pieces. The ornaments that have survived did so because they were tokens or talismans of meaningful occasions or marks of passage -- a pledge of love, the birth of a child, a symbol of achievement. Families humble and royal cherished and protected these pieces and passed them on.Heirlooms can be as grand as crown jewels or as simple as an iron cross, but in todays' world, a unique jewelry design for a special gift seems out of reach because the role of the jewelry maker has changed.

John D. Evans, a retired Baltimore police detective who later established a Florida jewelry store, died of cancer Jan. 9 at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 64. Mr. Evans, who was known as Doug, was born in Baltimore. After graduating from City College in 1957, he served in the Army. In 1961, he joined the city Police Department and was assigned to the Northwestern District and later at headquarters. He retired in 1983. Since moving to Daytona, he had owned and operated Evans & Son jewelry store.

Someone broke into a house in the 200 block of Carvel Road and stole more than $2,100 worth of cash and jewelry between 11 a.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, county police said.The burglar entered the house by cutting out the screen of an open kitchen window, police said. Cash was taken from a hall closet, jewelry from a bedroom closet, and pictures and frames from a living room display case, police said.

It's pearl-clutching time.If you didn't get a piece of the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis legend at the four-day auction of her estate last week, jewelry designers want to make sure you won't be crying in your hankie for years to come.In the fall, in a store near you, there will be Jackie-inspired large costume brooches, rings and, oh yes, three-strand pearls. Will Jackie O's pearls sweep aside the ubiquitous Y-necklace? Picture it: the three female cast members of "Friends" get corporate mid-level jobs (no downsizing for them)

Jacquelyn Stephens Shatzer Goldsmith/designer, Towson Age --49 Years in business --27 years Salary --$32,000 a year plus yearly distributions that range from $4,000 to $8,000 How she got started --Shatzer majored in art at Towson University but left after three years to complete a one-year jewelry design and repair program at the former Bowman Technical School in Lancaster, Pa. She went to work as an apprentice at the former H.C. Garthe Co., a...

A jewelry store at Marley Station mall was robbed Friday of an undetermined amount of jewelry, county police said yesterday.Police said the man walked into Mark Douglas Jewelry at 7 p.m. and passed a note to clerk announcing the robbery. However, police could not say whether the man was armed.The robber grabbed the jewelry and fled. He was wearing a rust-colored nylon jogging suit.Council chairman to tour Glen BurnieCounty Council Chairman C. Edward Middlebrooks will begin touring the Glen Burnie area with representatives of the Department of Public Works at 9 a.m. Friday.

A man armed with a shovel robbed a Linthicum man and a Baltimore man Monday of their jackets and jewelry at the Linthicum light rail station, county police said.Santo Spencer, 18, of the first block of Hampton Road in Linthicum and Thomas Crowder, 18, of the first block of S. East Ave. in Baltimore, told police they were waiting for a call at a pay phone on Nursery Road when a man riding a bicycle approached them and asked for a cigarette. When they said they didn't have one, the man left, but returned about 10 minutes later on foot with a long-handled shovel and threatened them,police said.

BEL AIR - Two men charged Wednesday in a half-million-dollar burglary at a Harford County home last month remained jailed yesterday, state police said. Charles Lee Pitt of the 3900 block of Red Deer Circle in Randallstown was being held without bail, and Jerome Pernell Bagley of the 3600 block of Elkader Road in Baltimore was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail pending a bail review today. Thieves broke into a home in the 2700 block of Franklinville Road in Joppa on Aug. 25 and stole about $500,000 worth of jewelry, state police said.