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Titanium Vs. Silver & Gold for Unusual & Unique Men's Jewelry
How easily can you find unusual gifts, today, uniquely popular? When you narrow searches to find things special in this new age of niches, you can also find experts. They will answer your every concern with a passion that spells dedication. Some merchants choose to gain a tight focus in only one area, to define expertise more and more and lead in their field, independence set apart and driven to excellence.
Although they cater to smaller segments of the market, they win customers from storekeepers merely dabbling in the connoisseur's area. Experience dominates trade. The more experts define a niche, the more they will even pull away from colleagues in proficiency. Would you rather spend money with salespeople whose involvement in your purchasing affairs only slightly regard you due to volume, or other concerns; or with ones whose intense interest is palpable because they chose to immerse themselves in a particular area, and push on to expert status??
Many seek after experts when they expect to pay for quality, like when you buy each other jewelry. When can jewelry become a niche? Selling rings, or bracelets, necklaces, pendants, maybe? Unless you added uniqueness to one of those, I'm afraid you wouldn't find that unusual present. If you hit upon an unprompted nook, perhaps a web site awaits your visit.
Small segments of a few countries uniquely adorned, don large jewelry as with many silver bracelets, or titanium men's bracelets. Titanium's gained great attention in a market where it competes with precious metals that have been around for thousands of years longer. William Gregor of England discovered it in 1791. Its price's comparable to sterling silver, its expense attributed to it because you can't solder it, and the high-tech processing it requires. Its qualities vary:
1. The ratio between strength and density's higher than any other metal, making titanium men's jewelry more comfortable for the rugged.
2. It withstands extreme heat and extreme mechanical force.
3. It possesses extreme tensile strength.
4. It resists corrosion, especially from oxygen.
5. Its elasticity and its inactivity with tissues bring extreme biological-compatibility.
Titanium's inertness, coupled with its strength to weight (stronger than steel, but 42% lighter) also makes it most sought after, and is the most used element in more industries than anything in existence, today. Its attractive natural gray surfaces cannot affect the skin--it's hypoallergenic. Its pureness as jewelry exceeds competing precious metals: its 99+% pureness skyrockets over 14kt gold's 58%, while platinum's 90% pure, the silver mostly used--92.5% pure.
You can credit titanium for men's growing popularity to its greater scratch resistance, plus its ability to have its surface's color changed through oxidation, exotically and otherwise, adding to its harmony. You can't change most precious metals like that. But, because the color can scratch off, you should purchase colored titanium with a satin finish, or have the color put in grooves to help protect it.
Although many prefer gold and platinum, if titanium had been discovered those thousands of years ago, many agree its popularity would fair well with the others. If only each of us could match such a marked growth as to our quality as titanium has grown in its uses since the time of its discovery...
Now, let's compare and contrast titanium with the traditional metals:
1. You can combine titanium with inlays of gold, or silver in jewelry design.
2. Corrosion resistant, and tarnish resistant, titanium's lasting shine far exceeds the competition: gold's and silver's reaction with oxygen effects a loss of color and shine.
3. Allergies to gold, silver, and nickel (often mixed with gold and silver) adversely affect people: titanium does not react with biological tissues.
4. With titanium, you fair better in water, in outdoor activities--its durability outruns other jewelry that's often lost or damaged. Titanium's strength, and lighter weight deliver confidence, deliver comfort.
Find fashion, find new trends, find versatility, find this niche, and find the expert on this newly forming tradition.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name's Timothy G. Cochran. My experience writing articles, poems, short stories and more spans a couple of decades. Enjoy some of the unique styles you can find at: www.silverwow.co.uk
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A preview: Starting with a quick story of how Byzantium began, I briefly chronicle the transfers in possession of the city. I share chain of events for Constantine�s control and the city�s fame, much of which came from the arts and fabricating pieces of jewelry individually.
A Brief History of Byzantium (bih-zan�-shee-um), Byzantium silver, and more of its Jewelry
Around 650 B.C., a leader named Byzas sailed a ship from Megara, fifteen miles west of Athens, approached the Bosporus and landed at Chalcedon. Colonists consulted the oracle priestess before leaving. They didn�t understand, for she had said that they would find a new home opposite the city of the blind. The Bosporus was twenty miles long and very narrow. There, they could control trade between the Black and Aegean Seas. They went from Chalcedon two and a half miles northwest to the other side of the Bosporus. Chalcedon�s harbor facilities couldn�t compare to the wide beautiful, large harbor they had founded; it could hold any number of ships and with water on three sides, it was easily defended. While they couldn�t understand Chalcedon�s inferior choice of neighborhood, they did come to understand that the oracle had been speaking of Chalcedon as the city of the blind. The city of Byzantion, named from Byzas� vanity, we know from Latin as Byzantium. Though ancient Geeks founded it, perhaps Byzas never existed and the name came from Byzantium�s meaning of �compact�, its city pressed together on their tongue of land.
The Byzantine Empire lasted approximately 2000 years, 1129 if counted from 324 when Constantine moved his capital there from Rome. By 1453, the Byzantines had lost their empire to the Ottoman Turks, Constantinople continuing as the capital in the new Ottoman Empire, which changed to Istanbul in 1930 in Turkey. When Constantine (1st) ruled western Rome and Licinius dominated eastern Rome, Byzantium (Constantinople) included, commercialism prospered the Byzantines busily, but with little renown. They were the crossroads between Europe and Asia.
July of 323 to September, Constantine (1st) chased Licinius through Byzantium to Chrysopolis, just north of Chalcedon, for the last battle settling the dispute, and Constantine won the rest of the Roman Empire. After Byzantium�s surrender, he wiped their commercial center. Expanding, he had walled it off and built his imitation of Rome, the new capital known as �New Rome�, which was completed on May 11, 330. People referred to it as Constantine�s city, Constantinople to us. Byzantium with its new name became the largest, the wealthiest, the most cultured, and the most famous city of its time. The Byzantines did not lose influence. No, not at all, for a new coin that Constantine created was called a �bezant�, and Byzantine silver and other jewelry fabricated then remain well known and are still very popular to this day.
By that time, Rome interwove itself with Christianity and as Roman tradition continued in early Byzantine jewelry, Christian themes emerged in the 5th century. Crosses and Byzantine chain necklaces became very popular. Byzantine silver and many finger rings bore Christian symbols. Christ, his mother, angels, and saints widely represented in sterling silver Byzantine jewelry surfaced with other precious metals and precious stones along with many allegorical representations, which brought out earlier floral, faunal, and geometric designs. From their illustrious passion to connect their values, their arts to the world, jewelers in Constantinople savored their renown far, far beyond their borders. In the eighth century, Byzantine styles greatly influenced European jewelry: heavy Byzantine necklaces�4mm-12mm, Bali Byzantine silver, Byzantine chain necklaces, heavy Byzantine bracelets�4mm-12mm, Byzantine chain bracelets and more. Early Byzantines and Romans also favored emeralds while jewelers fancied adding gold and silver, enamel, pearls, precious and semi-precious stones to the same pieces of Byzantine jewelry. They created colorful effects in many pieces with enamel, which became popular and oxidizing sterling silver enhanced the vintage feel of Byzantium medieval times.
While most Christian articulations surfaced in the 5th and 6th centuries, Byzantine crosses date back to the fourth century with the beginning of Constantinople, created impassionedly as a result of Constantine Christianizing the Roman Empire. The Byzantine crosses unearthed in digs showed-off attributes possessing the ardor of the craftsmen infused with holiness and spiritual tincture that illuminated Byzantium heart and soul. Before today�s mass production, Byzantines brought mastery to their artisanship in an era elucidating exceptional virtuosity, provocative architecture, and creating immaculate jewelry only the focused attention enlivened in one piece at a time can endow.
Have a look at this example: a Silver Byzantine Necklace, 20 inches, crafted with high quality sterling silver link woven into a Byzantium pattern:
We hope this leaves you enlightened about a very famous Byzantine society and the art they loved in medieval times. Click the resource link and discover many Byzantine silver styles available for your selection.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: My name's Timothy G. Cochran. My experience writing articles, poems, short stories and more spans a couple of decades. Enjoy some of the unique styles you can find at: www.silverwow.co.uk
We grant anyone and everyone PERMISSION to reprint this article as long as nothing is changed in the article, or the resource box. You may, however, add your link under the existing one at web sites where two or more are allowed.
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