They’re also the time of 12 months when we’re significantly prone to encounter purchasers going through troublesome occasions. As a jeweler who frequently does heirloom redesigns, I’ve witnessed firsthand how the “happiest season of all” has a funny means of bringing grief to the surface. Collaboration in Pforzheim between German and Japanese artists led to Shakudō plaques set into Filigree frames being created by the Stoeffler agency in 1885). The Eastern successor of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, continued many of the methods of the Romans, although religious themes came to predominate. Unlike the Romans, the Franks, and the…