| If you have ever been in a jewelry shop, you | | | | are each made of individually cut pieces of stone, |
| have no doubt marveled at the magnificent | | | | and just as no two snowflakes or diamonds are |
| precious and semi-precious stones that are used | | | | alike, the same is true with gemstone globes. |
| to create their jewelry masterpieces. Now imagine | | | | Gemstone globes are not only geopolitically |
| you could have a collection of those precious and | | | | correct, but they also make sense because they |
| semi-precious stones to show off in your home. | | | | are model of the planet that is created by using |
| We're not talking about filling jewelry boxes full of | | | | some of the most beautiful things the earth can |
| jewelry, rather something you can show off all | | | | yield. The stones that are used to create |
| the time - gems. Gemstone globes are stunning. | | | | gemstone globes have been mined around the |
| They are world globes that instead of being made | | | | world. There are some people who would make |
| out of plastic or some other boring material are | | | | mock gemstone globes and try to pass them off |
| actually created with pieces of precious and | | | | as the real thing, but the colors of the stones are |
| semi-precious gemstones that are inlayed into the | | | | nearly impossible to reproduce artificially. The |
| surface to create the world. Stones such as lapis | | | | richness and depth of the pieces are so pure, |
| will make up the seas around the land, and other | | | | even in their slight imperfections they are |
| semi-precious stones will be used to portray all | | | | something only Mother Nature can create. When |
| the countries and continents. Compared to | | | | you look at a gemstone globe and study the |
| traditional globes, there is no comparison. | | | | beauty of these pieces through those |
| Gemstone globes are not only functional pieces of | | | | imperfections, and the hands of these skilled |
| world study; they are also works of art in their | | | | craftsmen, you will know they are the real thing. |
| creation. Not only are the small, perfect, country | | | | Unlike those cheap classroom plastic globes, |
| shapes cut out of these gemstones, but the | | | | gemstone globes are pieces that everyone will |
| creator also has to take into account that they | | | | admire. Instead of ending up in a 50-cent bin at a |
| are creating a piece of art on a curved canvas. If | | | | garage sale, real gemstone globes will be heirloom |
| you have ever tried to fit pieces together in a | | | | pieces that anyone in your family will feel honored |
| mosaic, you know how hard it is on a flat surface. | | | | to receive. Gemstone globes are not just a way |
| Then add the fact that you are building on a | | | | to look at the world, but a way to start a family |
| curve, and this is an amazing artistry. In | | | | heirloom tradition. tone globes. |
| gemstone globes all these pieces fit perfectly | | | | Jesse Akre, author, gives advice on buying |
| together, with a possible bronze or copper strip | | | | gorgeous gemstone globes, classic globes and |
| between the countries to mark their borders. | | | | handsome Replogle globe. |
| These pieces of art are one of a kind, as they | | | | |