Jewelry Segment – November 13, 2021

11:00 – 12:00 PM

Hour 3 Seg 1 – Jewelry Segment

MATTHEW MORRIS FINE JEWELRY w/ Landon Morris.
– REPORT on his background. He’s from Sydney, Australia. Been in America 10 years, Palm Springs 5 years.
– DISCUSSION that he is based in Palm Springs and is working on having a store on Palm Canyon in the next year or so.
– REPORT that it is hard to motivate the artists that create the jewelry. He has a team of 4 in-house creative jewelers. He does many original designs.
– REPORT on the “stone of the month”.  It’s a TOPAZ.
Blue topaz isn’t real topaz, IT’S QUARTZ. Imperial topaz is the BEST.
– REPORT on the most valuable above rubies, diamonds and sapphires
1. Alexandrite
2. Tourmalilne
3. Imperial Topaz.
– DISCUSSION of chocolate diamonds. From Australia.
– REPORT on his “original designs”.
– DISCUSSION of his travels to Europe to buy older European cut stones. The clog in the supply chain for stones now.
– REPORT that zircons are REAL.
– (contact info; (310) 890-0763.

Landon