[Jewelry making - Article 00196] - Re: [Orchid] Using the term semi precious gems

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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>     pigeon blood red rubies 

    The word policeman is out again. This phrase has cropped up a couple
    of times lately. How many of you out there have actually seen the
    blood of a pigeon?? I never have, and frankly, even though blood and
    guts doesn't particularly bother me, with the diseases going around
    these days I'm not getting close enough to a dead pigeon (or a
    bleeding one) to find out. Is pigeon blood a different color than
    human blood? Is it a different color than dog's blood? The times I've
    seen my dog bleeding the color of his blood looked like it would make
    a pretty ruby. How about dog's blood ruby? Or elephant's blood ruby?
    Now that I think about it the color of my own blood would make a
    pretty ruby. How about Danny's blood ruby? Perhaps this is another
    term that could be dropped from the current gemological lexicon. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.spirerjewelers.com
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