Gemstones for Anniversaries

Gemstone Correspondences for Wedding Anniversaries

Gifts have traditionally been given for wedding anniversaries since The Roman Empire. In 1922 Emily Post became the first person to publish a list of suggested anniversary gifts according to the year of the anniversary. At that time she posted suggestions for the first, fifth, tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth and fiftieth years of marriage. 

Birthstones Month of April

Birthstones Month of April

 She who from April dates her years,

Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears

 For vain repentance flow; this stone,

 Emblem of innocence, is known.

~ Tiffany & Co. published this poem and others for each month for the first time in a pamphlet in 1870.

April birthstones white sapphire, diamond, rock crystal, emerald

Sun Signs:  Aries-Diamond      Taurus-Emerald

15th- 20th century- Diamond, Sapphire

U.S. (18th-19th century)- Diamond

U.S. (*modern)- Diamond

Britain (modern)- Diamond, Rock Crystal

Hindu- Diamond

*The American, National Association of Jewelers met in Kansas and officially adopted a list which was and is used as the “modern” version of birthstones with very limited changes.

You may also like some other birthstone posts from this blog:

January  February   March   April   May   June
July   August   September   October   November   December

Birthstones by day of the Week

March Birthstones

Birthstones Month of March

Bloodstone, diamond ring, bloodstone pendant, Shiva lingam, diamond,
bloodstone ring, porcelain jasper necklace, orbicular jasper

Who in this world of ours their eyes

 In March first open shall be wise,

 In days of peril firm and brave,

 And wear a bloodstone to their grave.

~ Tiffany & Co. published this poem and others for each month for the first time in a pamphlet in 1870.