It’s Time To Sell Your Bling May 13, 2006 – Posted in: Press
By MARY ELLEM PODMOLIK Published: May 13, 2006 Chicago Tribune Please click here to read the entire article on the Chicago Tribune Website.
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By MARY ELLEM PODMOLIK Published: May 13, 2006 Chicago Tribune Please click here to read the entire article on the Chicago Tribune Website.
Continue readingBy STEPHANIE MURPHY Published: May 7, 2006 Palm Beach Daily News All that glitters is not gold. But there may be a gleam in the eyes of anyone looking at 25-year-high prices for the precious metal, which flirted with $684 an ounce at the close of business Friday. Buying and selling abounds, based on dealers’ reports of increased gold activity in Palm Beach and elsewhere. “Gold and oil go together and are continuing to go…
Continue readingBy PAIGE WISER Published: January 31, 2006 Chicago Sun-Times Gentlemen, as you begin shopping for Valentine’s Day gifts, we beg you to consider: The charm bracelet. The demand for them goes in and out of fashion, but you can be confident you’re buying a classic. Charms have been traced at least as far back as ancient Egypt, when their owners would be buried wearing them as a sort of I.D. tag. They were believed to…
Continue readingBy CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Published: January 21, 2006 Wall Street Journal Chris Chiarella thought buying his wife a colorful necklace or bracelet for her birthday recently would be a cinch. But he had an anxiety attack when the jeweler laid out piece after piece studded with brightly colored stones he had never heard of — all priced over $2,000. “I felt like I do when I go to the mechanic — that I don’t know…
Continue readingBy FELICIA DECHTER Published: September 8, 2005 Pioneer Press Tobina Kahn, vice president of the House of Kahn Estate Jewelers, 60 E. Walton St., can clearly remember lugging paintings down from the walls of her Florida home when she was younger, to salvage them from possible hurricane destruction. She also recalled how the family would work to save their beautiful antiques when news of a hurricane hit. “House of Kahn is based in Palm Beach,…
Continue readingBy FELICIA DECHTER Published: April 7, 2005 Pioneer Press It was a magnificent evening in Rome, Italy, as North Sider Mary McDermott sat waiting for Pope John Paul II to appear on the steps of the legendary Coliseum for an early may, 200, Jubilee celebration. Although McDemott had been in the pontiff’s audience at least 10 times before, for some reason, this time was more spectacular than the others. As the sun set over the…
Continue readingBy JIM RITTER Published: April 4, 2005 Chicago Sun-Times One of the first things customers notice when they enter House of Kahn Estate Jewelers at 60 E. Walton is a photo of the late pope. Under the picture, in scriptural typeface, is written: “His holiness John Paul II paternally imparts a special Apostolic Blessing to Edward and Adele Kahn as a pledge of continued divine protection.” Many customers assume the Kahns are Catholics. In fact,…
Continue readingBy LUCIO GUERRERO Published: February 7, 2005 Chicago Sun-Times There should really only be two ways to do Valentine’s Day — the right way and the great way. We’ll start with the great way. This is the one, unfortunately, for the guys with the deep pockets. The guy who says — and means it — “Money is no object.” For that guy, there’s plenty of options. From the $100,000 luxury night at the Swissotel to…
Continue readingBy LORENE YUE Published: June 12, 2004 Chicago Tribune Please click here to read the entire article on the Chicago Tribune Website.
Continue readingBy LUCIO GUERRERO Published: June 9, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Two months ago, Paul Linke tried to auction off a 12-inch replica doll of Ronald Reagan. He had few takers. The same doll is back on Internet auction site eBay, and the response has been much different. “There is definitely more interest this time,” said Linke, 34, of Addison. “It’s too bad that it takes a tragedy like a death to get people interested.” Since the…
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