Jewelry

The glitter of the gold chains around the neck of the passer-by caught drug addict Matthew Slaughter's eye in 1990, the prosecutor said. "Look at that dude," Slaughter, 22, a street vendor, allegedly told two friends as Tommie Teagues, 22, passed the corner of 17th and Jefferson streets at 7:45 p.m. on June 7. "If I had a gun, I'd take that jewelry," Slaughter commented, Assistant District Attorney Richard Carroll said last Friday. Slaughter, of Lambert Street near Cecil B. Moore Avenue, then borrowed a gun from one of the friends and shot and killed Teagues, Carroll said.

Freeman's will wind out the year with a two-day holiday sale of jewelry, silver and objets d'art. It is one of several auctions in the days before Christmas featuring items suitable for gifts. The first session, beginning at 1 p.m. tomorrow, at Freeman's gallery at 1808 Chestnut St. will be devoted to 240 lots of jewelry. At least five of them are expected to sell for five-figure prices, including a pair of art-deco diamond and platinum clips with an estimate of $25,000 to $30,000, according to the $25 catalog.

FORMER Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, who made headlines for her vast shoe collection, is embarking on a new project - a fashion line. The 77-year-old widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos told reporters yesterday she planned to launch "The Imelda Collection" of fashion jewelry and accessories on Nov. 18. Marcos became notorious for her shopping trips to New York while her country wallowed in poverty under martial law declared by her...

The discovery of poor quality diamonds in a shark-shaped pin commissioned by Greg Norman disappointed him and gave his wife an emotional shock, the golfer testified at his former jeweler's fraud trial in Miami. "There was a huge change in the emotional feeling of my wife," said Norman, who gave the $48,875 pin shaped like his company logo to his wife Laura as a gift in 1996. "She didn't want to continue to wear it. " The two-time British Open champion and winner of 74 tournaments was the first witness in the trial yesterday of Jack Hasson, who is charged with fleecing customers out of $80 million in fraudulent jewelry sales.

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Duce Staley says someone stole $100,000 worth of jewelry at a nightclub in Columbia, S.C. Staley, who played seven seasons with the Eagles, said his jewelry fell off during an altercation at a club Friday night. No charges have been filed and Richland County sheriff's deputies still are investigating, Lt. Chris Cowan said. Staley played high school football in the Columbia area and later for South Carolina. In other pro football news: Former Steelers running back Jerome Bettis said he has spoken to Fox about joining the network's NFL broadcast team.

1964, Helen W. Drutt English's jewelry box contained the following: a gold- plated circle pin from her high school days, her grandmother's cameo brooch, and a replica from the shop at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Twenty-two years later, the Center City gallery owner's jewelry is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There's not a circle pin or a cameo in the lot. Her 150-plus pieces stretch the conventional definition of jewelry. There are recognizable forms - brooches, necklaces, bracelets and rings - beside radical pieces that lie in a netherland between garment, jewelry, sculpture and, occasionally, instrument of torture.

About $1 million in jewelry was stolen last weekend from a walk-in safe at the elegant Bailey Banks & Biddle store in Center City, police said. Burglars apparently pried open a rooftop air duct and made their way into the ground-floor store, police said. They were then able to pop the lock of a walk-in safe and take off with an estimated $1 million worth of rings, watches and other jewelry. They escaped the way they came in, police said. Left behind were a hammer and a crowbar.

A Warwick Hotel resident is suing management because the family jewels are missing. In a suit filed in Common Pleas Court, Susan Shore said she left several bags with a doorman while she parked her car on March 27, just as she had done for the last 19 years. When she returned, a bellman carried the bags to her apartment - same as always. Only when the luggage arrived at Shore's apartment this time, the Louis Vuitton bag containing $29,130 worth of her late mother's jewelry was gone.

A gang of deft jewel thieves who police said stole more than $100,000 in gems yesterday from a King of Prussia shop were so polished that it took employees more than five minutes to realize that they had been robbed. Ray Kirkpatrick, manager of Wayne Jewelers & Silversmiths in the King of Prussia Plaza, said he had been a victim of "that old teamwork routine. " He said that at least four people, perhaps five, entered the store at 2:45 p.m. Kirkpatrick said he went to the rear of the store to show the woman in the group a silver comb and brush set. Meanwhile, other employees showed items to the rest of the group, all men, at display cases spread throughout the store, Kirkpatrick said.

A team of stickup artists brandishing guns and knives are suspected of committing a string of robberies Thursday night in different sections of the city, police said yesterday. The gunmen shot one victim in the right leg as they swept through the city stealing cars, jewelry, clothing, money and, in one case, a SEPTA Transpass, police said. "We're working on the assumption this is the same crew," Capt. John Lyons said. In all the robberies the descriptions of the men were similar, and in several they were spotted in the same car, he said.

More than 350,000 pieces of trash were collected and tabulated last year during two massive clean-up efforts that spanned New Jersey's beaches, according to a new report . Categories include Cigar Tips, Fishing Bait Containers, Diapers, Buoys/Floats, Lights: Fluorescent Tubes, Condoms/Rubber Bands, Car Parts, Nails and Shoes/Sandals. But no valuable jewelry. One Blackberry. No bags of dope. And very little cash: A $5 bill, a $1 bill and a nickel. Seriously?

Carlos Boozer had 29 points and 18 rebounds, Nate Robinson made the go-ahead basket with 22 seconds left, and the Chicago Bulls overcame a 16-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets, 92-90, Thursday night in Brooklyn.   Bosh's home buglarized While Miami Heat star Chris Bosh was out celebrating his birthday at a Morocco-themed party complete with live camels, police said Thursday that thieves made off with about $340,000 in jewelry from the player's nearby home. Miami Beach police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said the department received a call about 12:30 a.m. after Bosh and his wife, Adrienne, returned from the party at a bayside Miami nightspot.

Police have found the stolen car used in the kidnapping of a jeweler whose Montgomery County store was robbed of items worth $1.5 million by masked bandits who had ransacked his Chester County home. Four armed men accosted the owner of Shuler's Jewelers in his driveway on Wooded Way in Tredyffrin Township on Jan. 31 and bound him and his wife with duct tape inside their house. They searched the home for jewelry and Rolex watches, police Detective Sgt. Todd Bereda said Wednesday.

Four masked men broke into the Main Line home of well-known jewelers, kidnapped the husband and forced him at gunpoint to drive to their Montgomery County store where he was robbed while the wife was held hostage. Police said the incident began around 7 p.m. Thursday night in Tredyffrin Township when the intruders confronted the owners of Shuler's Jewelers at their home in the 200 block of Wooded Way in Berwyn. The couple was bound with duct tape while the robbers ransacked the home, said Det. Sgt. Todd Bereda.

Two Camden County men have been charged with breaking into a Pine Hill home and threatening to kill a man and his 3-year-old daughter, then ransacking the home and stealing jewelry, a cellphone and cash, police said. Brandon Cooper and Davon Obryant-Still, both of the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township, were caught during a vehicle stop about 10 minutes after the incident on Friday at the Tall Pines Development. One of them was armed with a silver semi-automatic handgun, police said, and holding the gun to the father's head, forced him into an upstairs bedroom.

Edward A. Farnan Jr., 87, former president of a Philadelphia-area family jewelry company, died Sunday, Nov. 4, of heart failure at Abington Memorial Hospital. Mr. Farnan and his brother, John, joined their father in the family jewelry store, Edward A. Farnan & Sons Jewelers at 11th and Sansom Streets, taking over the business in the 1950s. Farnan Jewelers, now in Wayne, is run by Mr. Farnan's niece Claire Farnan. Mr. Farnan was raised in Philadelphia's Olney section. He attended La Salle College High School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

A Philadelphia man who authorities suspect may belong to a ring of jewelry store bandits targeting high-end watches in several states was charged Saturday in a Montgomery County robbery. Willie Smith, along with two other suspects, was arrested in Phoenixville after a brief car and foot chase. Most of the 12 Rolex and Gucci watches stolen and a hammer used in the robbery were recovered after the trio abandoned a getaway car, said Detective Matt Daywalt of the Limerick Township police.

IMAGINE AN ELK whose antlers sprawl upward and outward like a 10-story apartment building. Then imagine there are inhabitants of those antlers - birds and squirrels and people who built a child's tree house and left it there. Now try to see yourself wearing "The Elk With Antlers That Never Stopped Growing," a piece of 21st-century art jewelry that encircles your head and neck like a whimsical bramble bush. To witness this 3-D fairy-tale object and others equally fantastical, head to the Philadelphia Art Alliance for "Legends," a show of visionary jewelry made by 25-year-old Emily Cobb, who designs her works with CAD (computer-assisted design)

OSCAR ROBINSON was the man to see on the second floor of a store in the area around Philadelphia's famous Jewelers Row. He was the man whom other jewelers started climbing the stairs to see, bringing with them jewelry that needed repairing. As his reputation grew, more and more jewelers climbed those stairs. He became known as "the man behind the man. " Oscar C. Robinson Sr., a 60-year master jeweler, who both repaired and made jewelry for an expandsive list of patrons that included customers overseas and some prominent celebrities, died Oct. 25. He was 85 and lived in Mount Airy.

FORMER DUKE and current New Orleans Hornets player Lance Thomas said Monday he does not think he violated NCAA rules when he purchased nearly $100,000 in diamond jewelry during his college career. Thomas also indicated a willingness to speak with the NCAA about the purchase, which spawned a lawsuit by a New York jeweler and an inquiry by Duke and the NCAA of whether Thomas violated rules pertaining to improper benefits for college athletes. Thomas has settled the lawsuit, which claimed he owed nearly $68,000 to Rafaello & Co. for a purchase made during Duke's 2009-10 national championship season.