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2. Colored gold - Wikipedia

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   Rhodium-plated white gold wedding ring. The word white covers a broad range of colors that borders or overlaps pale yellow, tinted brown, and even very pale rose. White gold is an alloy of gold and at least one white metal (usually nickel, silver, platinum or palladium). [5] Like yellow gold, the purity of white gold is given in karats.

3. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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   An early example is the 3rd-century CE Greek Pseudo-Callisthenes Romance of Alexander that says Alexander the Great once speared a fish, "in whose bowels was found a white stone so brilliant that everyone believed it was a lamp. Alexander set it in gold, and used it as a lamp at night" (Laufer 1915: 58).

4. Medieval jewelry - Wikipedia

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   The wearing of cheaper forms of jewelry appears to have reached quite far down the social scale; gold was relatively cheap at the period. Though mostly based on Roman models, styles varied with the different tribes or people, and the jewelry buried in graves can be used to trace the movement of ethnic groups, having presumably served with other ...