[Jewelry making - Article 01440] - Re: [Orchid] Definition of "jeweler"

[David L. Huffman]

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Hi Richard;

>     I have always found it irritating that a sales person whose only
>     skill is reading a price tag is called a "jeweler" by the public 

    Yeah, it's aggravating. I used to live in a little tourist town, and
    every year, the local paper would have a "best of" contest, best
    bartender, best cop, best jeweler, etc. One year, one of our local
    gold butchers whose wife owned a coffee shop had her customers stuff
    the ballot box and her husband won. Word got out, and that was the
    end of the best jeweler catagory. My employer, not a bench jeweler,
    always resented that he didn't win, since our store was heads and
    tails above the others. Another local bench veteran, a grizzled old
    torch jockey, really got my bosses goat when he referred to him as a
    "shop keeper". But the politics of this are relevant, really, even
    if we probably can't change them. I think the people who actually
    create the jewelry should be the ones who get to call themselves
    jewelers. The rest can, with our help, call themselves, jewelry store
    owners. :-) 

David L. Huffman, gold wrangler.
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