“The Pelican”
The Official State Bird joins the new state gemstone in Anne Dale’s original creation “The Pelican” just in time to commemorate Louisiana’s 200th birthday.
“The Pelican”
The Official State Bird joins the new state gemstone in Anne Dale’s original creation “The Pelican” just in time to commemorate Louisiana’s 200th birthday.
Anne Dale makes a donation to Friends of the Fishermen, endorsed by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board the Friends of the Fishermen fund helps local fishermen in need.
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Are you looking for a way to help fishermen affected by the oil spill? A local jeweler is creating pieces you can buy, with proceeds going to the men and women along the coast.
Two things weather the storms of life – Love and Diamonds
Volumes of stories have been told at New Orleans jewelry counters over the years; it is as if the diamonds and gemstones I deal in are recorders of history – my customers’ rites of passage.
Engagements, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, as well as the difficult times such as divorce, death and inheritance often require my expertise as a jeweler. Jewelry is arguably the most spiritual of all physical products in the marketplace this is true for all races, religions, cultures and periods in history.
My job description often falls somewhere between a priest, bartender and party planner, currently writing the final pages of my first book in which I recall many jewelry stories. One story many years ago is of a young man that struggled with walking and slurred his speech. It made it difficult to understand as he purchased a ring for his girlfriend.
Months later his older sister (a saint and prominent attorney) would find her way into the jewelry store to thank me…she told me his story – a brain injury (automobile accident) and how he had sold his television to purchase the ring for his girlfriend.
I put together a selection of rings for the man to choose from… the sister realized his money would not have covered the cost of the ring chosen and she wanted to pay me the balance. With laughter and tears I embraced his loving sister and explained that I had earned something you can not buy with money.
Another…..Just this week one of my very best customers (friend) surprised me with a bottle of champagne, picking up a long awaited purchase. A stunning diamond necklace definitely not for everyday wear but one of those “special occasions only” jewelry items (50th birthday gift), we popped open the bottle (the cork went flying) we toasted and enjoyed the bubbly.
Later, I reflected on the many events in my customer’s lives, personalfamily events that through jewelry I had been a part. Each of the many fine jewelry items over that period represent chapters in their life, as if the diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls and gold were “story keepers” – that is what makes these stones and metals – “precious“.
Disclaimer & Limitation of Liability Regarding Diamond Laboratory Grading Reports
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY REGARDING DIAMOND LABORATORY GRADING REPORTS
A Diamond Laboratory Grading Report (“Report”) is an independent third-party opinion regarding the quality of a diamond. While such Reports are based upon quantifiable standards, a certain level of subjectivity is always inherent in the diamond grading process. Moreover, the standards that the various diamond laboratories use are not uniform. Accordingly, Anne Dale Jewelers LLC transmittal or use of any such Report should not and does not imply Anne Dale Jewelers LLC agreement with or endorsement thereof.
FURTHER, Anne Dale Jewelers MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR EXPRESS WARRANTY, AND DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, WITH RESPECT TO THE DIAMOND LABORATORY GRADING REPORTS ACCOMPANYING OR APPLICABLE TO THE DIAMONDS THAT IT SELLS, OR THE ACCURACY THEREOF. IN NO EVENT SHALL Anne Dale Jewelers OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO A CUSTOMER OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE OR EXPENSE, OR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, STATUTORY, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, RESULTING FROM AN ERROR IN OR OMISSION FROM, OR THE ISSUANCE OF, USE OF, OR RELIANCE UPON, A REPORT, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE CUSTOMER OR SUCH OTHER THIRD PARTY WAS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.