title: Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox
author: Mark Fenn
description: "This book fills in many roles: the sumptuous photographs over 450 and large format make it a coffee-table book par excellence; each maker has a paragraph about them and the writing makes it useful for educators, curators and collectors; it can be read as a text, used to spark discussion, or just browsed and enjoyed. - --Jewellery Focus<br /><br />"The exquisite specimens selected by jeweler Mark Fenn are united and demand attention." --- Antiques and the Arts Weekly
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  ## **The Puzzle at Pineview School**
  
  
  “Before we auction off these beautiful brooches,” the headmaster of Pineview
  School announced to the guests at the charity ball,
  
  
  “Mr. Gideon Ray, a jeweler, will write down their worth and seal the figure in
  an envelope.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Mr. Ray lifted the velvet cloth off the jewelry.
  
  
  
  
  
  The crowd gasped in admiration at the pair of antique brooches.
  
  
  “They’ve been in the Sedgewick family for generations,” George whispered to
  Nancy.
  
  
  
  
  
  Mr. Ray picked up one of the brooches. He placed a jeweler’s magnifying glass
  in his eye and examined the beautiful gem at the center of the brooch. The air
  was thick with excitement.
  
  
  Mr. Ray examined the brooch under the magnifying glass a second time. Then a
  third. Finally he stepped back. He looked very upset.
  
  
  
  
  
  “I can’t appraise these,” he said in a shaken voice. “They aren't real.
  They’re . . . they’re worthless fakes!”
  
  
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