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2. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Conversely, the jewellery industry in the early 20th century launched a campaign to popularise wedding rings for men, which caught on, as well as engagement rings for men, which did not, go so far as to create a false history and claim that the practice had medieval roots. By the mid-1940s, 85% of weddings in the U.S. featured a double-ring ...

3. Cheapside Hoard - Wikipedia

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   Cheapside pictured in 1909, with the church of St Mary-le-Bow in the background. The Cheapside Hoard is a hoard of jewellery from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, discovered in 1912 by workmen using a pickaxe to excavate in a cellar at 30–32 Cheapside in London, on the corner with Friday Street.

4. Pinchbeck (alloy) - Wikipedia

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   Pinchbeck jewellery was used in places like stagecoaches where there was a risk of theft. The original Pinchbeck was made by Christopher Pinchbeck and his descendants until the 1830s. [1] Later dishonest jewellers passed pinchbeck off as gold; over the years the name came to mean a cheap and tawdry imitation of gold. [2]

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6. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Kleinhans – a men's clothier in Buffalo, New York that operated from 1893 until 1992; Klopfenstein's – a men's clothier in the Seattle-Tacoma area founded in 1918 and in operation until 1992 [64] The Limited – filed for bankruptcy and liquidated in 2017. Its products became available again online after the brand was acquired by Sycamore ...

7. Gerald Ratner - Wikipedia

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   Following an unsuccessful attempt to become a jewellery consultant in France during the mid-1990s, he set up a health club in Henley-on-Thames in 1996, which was sold for £3.9m in 2001. Ratner then ran, from 2003, in collaboration with SB&T International Ltd, an export manufacturing company based in India and the online jewellery business ...