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What is the difference between costume and fashion jewelry? Is there really a difference or do we use the words interchangeably? Maybe a better question is should we use the words interchangeably? To find an answer, we first need to go back in time a bit and review the history of jewelry.

Although the use of materials, or specifically gold, to adorn the body easily dates back to Egypt in 3000 BC as evidenced by finds in tombs such as Tutankhamen's, we need to move forward t ...
Author: Barbara Borchert
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• Feds Recall More Children Jewelry in Cadmium Probe (ABC News)
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• Feds recall more children jewelry in cadmium probe (Boston Herald)
  LOS ANGELES - Federal regulators expanded their efforts today to go after children's jewelry that contains...
  
  
• Children?s jewelry recall expanded (New Haven Register)
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• Cadmium investigation leads to federal warning about children's jewelry (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
  Use of lead in children's jewelry is tightly restricted, but use of cadmium is not banned