Personalized Silver Jewelry

Henderson & Co. is excited to announce that we have recently added two lines of sterling silver jewelry.

Personality Jewelry Collection is an exclusive line of Italian bracelets, necklaces and earrings featuring the latest fashion sweeping the United States and Europe.
The Collection includes hundreds of different beads that allow you to “get personal” and create unique jewelry reflecting your own individual style. The beads are designed and produced in Europe featuring Italian Murano Glass, Onyx, Mother of Pearl, Sterling Silver, Gold and Bronze.
The possibilities are endless as to what each bracelet, necklace or earrings can look like. You start with just one bead and add additional beads as desired.
Arrange and change the beads to compliment any fashion wardrobe of the day. The Collection offers a stopper system that creates segments allowing each bead to move independently as you move your wrist. Change just one segment or the entire piece; the inspiration is left to your imagination.

Dobbs was founded in 1985 to sell silver beaded jewelry. The company was purchased by its current owner in 1991 and has been a family business ever since. The line has evolved each year to offer the range of product you can view on our web site. Designs of gold and silver beads are still an important part of our line but they are complimented by a much broader product offering today that includes castings and fabrications much more complicated than beading.

Pantone/Fashion Forcast for Spring 2008

Compliment the hottest colors and designs with matching gemstones. Warm earthy tones this season open the way for yellow gold to make a comeback.

Cruelty-Free Materials

Increasing awareness of fair trade efforts is continuing to shape the jewelry market ,giving customers a choice in materials. Henderson & Co. takes this one step further and offers to recycle gold from your old jewelry to create a new piece for you.

Non-Traditional Gemstone Colors

This season, 'chocolate' pearls will be very popular whether they are set in a ring, as earrings, or traditional necklace strands, these freshwaters are anything but.

Diamonds in yellow, brown or even black are also gaining interest.

Fancy Diamonds

By curious flukes of nature, some very rare diamonds are born the colors of a rainbow. These are the diamonds for customers who have everything else, those who covet a jewel few others can own.
Once owned only by royalty, "fancy" diamonds have gone democratic this century, thanks to increased production in Australia, Brazil, Venezuela and parts of Africa where conditions are right for natural color.

A "fancy" diamond is a natural diamond of color – such as red, green, purple, violet, orange, blue and pink – and should not be confused with a "fancy cut," which refers to shape. Fancy colors vary from faint to intense.
Any diamond that falls between K and Z on the Gemological Institute of America's color grading scale can contain small amounts of yellow but not be considered fancy. Any yellow diamond beyond Z is a fancy color and, as such, commands a premium.
Causes of color – yellow and otherwise – are not as cut and dried as you might think. Infinitesimal impurities, irradiation or anomalies in crystal growth – or combinations of these factors – are the known causes of color. Here's a closer look at each one.
Prevalent fancy diamond colors include yellow and brown. Even some pinks are tinged with brown.

It's curious how such practically negligible elements in diamond can cause such a riot of colors. For example, nitrogen (sometimes combined with hydrogen) results in many of the yellow and some of the brown shades.
Yellow diamonds are called "canaries" (referring to the yellow bird) or "cape series" (they were first found in Cape Province in South Africa). They are type Ia or Ib diamonds, which means they contain clusters or aggregates of nitrogen atoms. If your store has a spectroscope, you can see that Ia types show dark lines at the 415 nanometer mark, according to the GIA Diamond Dictionary. Ia types are quite prevalent in natural stones of weak, non-fancy yellow color.

Two extremely rare red and green rough diamonds. There's a reluctance to cut green rough because the color is often only "skin deep."

Natural Ib diamonds, which are related to saturated fancy yellows, are quite rare. Most synthetic fancy yellow diamonds are type Ib also. The color of natural light yellow diamonds can be deepened with irradiation and annealing (heating). Emmanuel Fritsch of Nantes, France, an expert on origin of color in diamonds, says combinations of irradiation and heating "cause color centers which reinforce the originally weak yellow color and, as a result, the treated gem becomes more marketable."
Type IIa diamonds contain boron or bits of nitrogen. While they are more often colorless, they also can be pink, blue-green or brown.
Type IIb diamonds are very rare and contain boron, which may substitute for some of the carbon atoms. They are most often blue."

What's popular in the world of jewelry?
Be sure to check this page often to keep abreast of current trends.