This episode is brought to you by Fully Gemstones.

Hello, I'm Carol Wilton, the voice of Jewelry.

Welcome to If Jewels could talk.

This is our season finale, the end of season six, can you believe it?

But don't worry, we are not going away for long.

We have too many stories to tell, basically.

So we have to get on with it.

We have to get on with season seven.

And as promised, I am going to answer questions today that you've been sending in.

And thank you so much for everybody who responded to my shout-out

of asking for questions about what you wanted answered. So here goes. Question one from

Alistair in London. What was the one that got away? He wanted to know if there was one piece of

jewelry that I saw that I never bought, that I really regret.

And there is, and I'm going to answer this one first because I don't want to keep thinking about it at the end of this episode and be upset that I never got it.

The one that got away was something that I bought from a dealer called Peter Edwards in London,

which I didn't buy from Peter Edwards in London, that I saw there.

And Peter Edwards was on Conduit Street for years,

and all the years I used to run around the corner back to Vogue House when it was in Hanover Square.

I used to pop in and see Peter if I had a few minutes.

And he is a dealer in the great 20th century greats like Belperon, Boisvin, people like that.

They're increasingly very hard to find. And I learned a lot from Peter and we'd have great

chats. I know I've mentioned before that I love that modernist period of sort of 20s 30s when it was all about speed and breaking away from the formality of fine jewelry in a new design language set by modernist designers like Jean de Prey. He was an aircraft engineer at the end

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