Literary analysis shows how jewels are used in fiction to build character or add to the plot, while the lost language of jewels in portraits is decoded.

One fits the best in class category, the other has a sordid past.
 

"It’s hard to estimate how much a planet-sized diamond would be worth; I’m guessing several million, if not billion, dollars,” Liz Edmunds, social media director for Raymond Lee Jewelers in Boca Raton, Fla., tells JCK.

  21 percent of the men chose the option that they do remember their girlfriend’s first date ensemble: “Yes, right down to the jewelry.”

 

Aconvicted money launderer calls it “one of the world’s most perfect and flawless canary yellow diamonds.”