San Francisco Jewelry Doctor

Lynne sent me a picture of a necklace she had bought recently.  “I don’t love it, but think it has some great elements,” she said.     And i...

These earrings have a romantic feel to them— —which was lost on CeeJay. “Not me,” she said. “What else can we do?”     We looked at a number...

Here’s a pretty bracelet. Don’t you love that pattern?   Alas, the clasp is broken.  “Oh, well,” somebody says. “I guess there’s nothing we ...

“I’m not sure what to do with this,” said Lynne.   The strand had two great components: Leopard skin jasper—one of your Jewelry Doctor’s fav...

Nothing wrong with these earrings.  In fact, Fred said she liked them when she bought them. But they sat in  the drawer. That w...

“My mother’s gotten a bit more religious in the past few years. Do you have any religious jewelry?” Why, yes, we do. We have everythin...

  “I don’t know if there are enough beads,” said Carolyn.   She was right. There were a lot missing. We talked about a couple...

“You can just restring this,” said Carolyn. I wish.   Look closely.  This necklace had a past.  The person who fixed it most re...

“Anything we can do about this pin?   It was my grandmother’s,” said Nancy.    And what a beauty!    Look at those flowers.    And that...

“I don’t know about this necklace,” said Ariane. I looked at it. Green African Trade beads, often called “Vaseline beads.”   Nothin...

Many a “patient” that comes to visit the Jewelry Doctor isn’t broken. Well, this bracelet was a little stretched-out, that’s true. Bu...

Once upon a time the Jewelry Doctor heard someone say she had been told people should just toss their broken jewelry.   Not worth fixing*, ...

"My husband came to me after all these years together and told me he was gay.  I want him to be happy--I love the guy--so we ended the ...

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the ring, after all these years? Not so much. “But she never said anything.” And sh...

In the theme song from the television series Green Acre s, of blessed memory, we learn that Lisa Douglas (played by Eva Gabor) loves her hus...

As a little girl, I was smitten with algebra. X and Y go to the store. (a + b) + c = a + (b + c). Coordinates. Axes. Happiness. Geome...