Mike Rivkin

A cameo is a scene carved in relief on a seashell or other material. All sorts of subjects were immortalized that way.

If you're not buying your costumes at antique and thrift stores, you are paying too much!

Gold is selling at record prices and seems to hit a new high almost every day while diamonds prices have collapsed. What's going on?

From the beginning, the firm's intentions were clear: to manufacture the most unusual and unique high-end watches they could come up with. Their insignia was and remains an ornate key pointing up to the heavens, ostensibly representing some mumbo jumbo about exploration, innovation and a bunch of other stuff. Anyway, the firm's first model was introduced in 1956, followed a year later by the Golden Tube, basically a hollowed out gold cylinder with a movement configured to fit. Apart from its innovative style, the model dispensed with the conventional two-piece band in favor of a one-piece design on which the watch could be slid up and down for comfort.

It appears that the Navajo first obtained concho belts in the early 19th century via trade, then learned silversmithing from Mexican artisans.

By 1960, the Timex name was on one out of every three watches sold in the USA.

Mike Rivkin | Special to The Desert Sun Show Caption Every now and then we get a singular item that represents a historic moment in time.

The ribbon-weaving business has been around for more than 300 years. It was originally based in Coventry, a fair-sized town in central England.

As you undoubtedly know from these columns, there are collectors of nearly everything, and so it is with fire trucks.

As we slide into the quarter-century mark, there are some interesting things going on in the jewelry business