In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 photo, a gilt-brass and enamel clock-watch with alarm and calendar made by Gaultier Ferlite is seen on display in an exhibition 'The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels' ...

Buried jewels, fake gemstones, cheats, thieves and missing treasure. After decades of putting bits and pieces on display, the Museum of London has at last thrust the whole of the Cheapside Hoard — a ...

Known as the Cheapside Hoard, it is considered the world’s largest and finest collection of jewelry from these two important eras in British history. The items were accidentally found by construction ...

nepalnepal — Diamonds may be forever, but a lot of jewelry doesn’t survive through the centuries. Rings and bracelets get broken up for re-use, pearls decay, gold is melted down. That explains the ...

That explains the excitement over a new London exhibition of the Cheapside Hoard - a trove of almost 500 gemstones and pieces of jewelry from the 16th and 17th centuries, dug up by workmen demolishing ...

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