SNAKES, BUTTERFLIES and tigers - encrusted with jewels, carved of stone or crafted in gold - coexist handsomely in ''Antique Animal Jewelry: 1700-1940,'' at the gallery of J. Mavec, 52 East 76th Street. The exhibition, which opens Wednesday, will be on view through Nov. 21. links of london sweetie bracelet

The show of more than 200 works, focusing mostly on late Georgian and Victorian examples, was selected by Janet Mavec, an antiques dealer in silver and jewelry, in cooperation with Sandra Ventura-Pauly, a London dealer in period jewelry. The bulk of the meticulously crafted bracelets, brooches, necklaces and earrings was produced by British makers. There are, however, a number of other pieces - made earlier, later and elsewhere - that add variety to the arrangements, showing how birds, animals and insects were depicted in other times and places.

The animal theme - as ancient as jewelry itself - changed with every age. The symbolism, mysticism and ferocity that characterized the animal motifs of necklaces and brooches in antiquity and the Middle Ages are absent from these works of stingless serpents, tamed beasts and well-mannered eagles. All are executed in ravishing colors or glowing metals or are gloriously awash with glitter Charm Bracelet.

The extraordinary skills of the jewelers who produced the works in this show are seen in the technical mastery they demonstrated in such tasks as cutting and setting seed-sized gems, framing stones in foils and exquisitely worked metals, and devising chains as fine as mesh. The exotic subjects chosen by the designers owe much to the naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists whose drawings and paintings captured wildlife subjects in minute detail. These realistic renderings were elaborately romanticized by jewelers - much to the delight of their wearers.

Vivienne Becker, a British jewelry historian, documents the evolution of the styles represented in the show in a modest catalogue ($5). She cites the ancient origins of several motifs: the sacred beetle that inspired the amulets worn by the Egyptians, and the snake jewelry popular with the Greeks and Romans Sweetie Bracelet.

Snakes were a dominant image in 19th-century jewelry, as this exhibit makes abundantly clear. Reptiles were fashioned of gold to slither around a wrist, to wrap a finger or frame the throat. The serpent image shows up studded with jewels and pearls, enhanced by crosshatching or enamel and in some cases combined with other motifs. The most expensive piece in the show is a diamond-flecked bracelet with a sapphire crown and ruby eyes, valued at $85,000.

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FORMER US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's autobiography The Age of Turbulence came under fierce attack yesterday.

Some of his dire forecasts about both the strength of inflation and the weakness of the British housing market have irritated corners of the Square Mile, especially as some elements of the sub-prime mortgage crisis arguably can be laid at his door links of london bracelet sale.

"It was after all Alan Greenspan who encouraged personal debt levels of Americans to increase, " says BGC Partners senior strategist Howard Wheeldon.

"It was Greenspan that allowed the subprime market to grow without any recognition of potential dangers, " he adds.

NEW York jeweller Tiffany & Co is backing London-listed diamond miner Target.

Tiffany, which is investing GBP 2.5million in the Sierra Leone miner in return for first refusal over its stones links of london bangle sale, is impressed by Target's ethical standards.

THE Office of Fair Trading has appointed Barney Wyld, PR executive behind the Government's Smokefree England campaign, as its new communications director.

OVER-50s heading off on Saga holidays can take part in activities ranging from hot air ballooning to ghost hunting following a tie-up with Warner Leisure Hotels links of london earring sale.

The gold industry was also under renewed scrutiny because of some high-profile cyanide spills. The worst occurred in 2000 when some 120 tonnes of cyanide poured from Australia miner Esmeralda's Romanian goldmine into the Tisza river, from where the deadly chemical was washed into the Danube, killing 1240 tonnes of fish valentines Day rings .

At a meeting in London in 2005, a large cross-section of the industry from mining, processing, manufacturing and retailing agreed to form the council, with the aim of adopting and monitoring responsible practices covering environmental, social and ethical criteria.

The idea had been inspired by the success of the Forest Stewardship Council and Marine Stewardship Council, which brand products from sustainably-managed forests and fisheries.

But the challenge for jewellery is much more complex. While both the FSC and MSC track wood and fish products through the production chain, the diamond and gold that make up a bracelet or ring come from a wide variety of different sources. In addition, the FSC and MSC are focused only on monitoring the harvesting of wood and fish, not the downstream processing.

The aim of the council, however, is not to track individual gold and diamonds, but to monitor the whole production chain cheap links of london bangle, so that manufacturing operations will also be required to abide by its standards -- which cover issues such as child and slave labour as well as the environment and corruption.

''What we are trying to do is a more comprehensive process through all the links in the chain. Nobody has done this before for a complex manufacture.''

Under the plan, the council will oversee and authorise regular, independent, third-party monitoring by its members to ensure they comply with the council's code of practice.

The council is trialling the monitoring process, and aims to formally introduce it during the first quarter of next year.

A key issue, says Rae, is to ensure that the process doesn't become limited to the big players in the industry, who can most easily afford the expense. He says there is a risk small players could find their reputations unfairly tarnished, and that the council needs to avoid this by making it easy for small operators to participate cheap links of london earring.

Rae believes the council's work can eventually be extended to other products such as silver, platinum and precious stones.

The mining members of the council are AngloAshanti, BHP Billiton, De Beers, Newmont Mining and Rio Tinto. In all, the council has 71 business members, excluding industry associations.

LOOKS like love has well and truly blossomed for former Adelaide TV journalist Jade Robran and Ben Williams, the first Big Brother winner.

Jade has pulled up stumps in Melbourne - where she recently scored a job with Channel 7 sport - to move to Sydney to be with her man.

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The couple began a long-distance love affair but just a month ago Jade moved to Ben's eastern suburbs home.

"The move had been on the cards for about four months and I thought about it long and hard, and discussed with friends and colleagues," she said.

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Since she'd only just moved to Melbourne to take up her new job, Jade was nervous about letting her new boss know she was already moving on.

"He asked me three times to have a good hard think about what I was giving up and the opportunity I had been given with Channel 7," she said. "But the answer was clear. I had to make the move to be with Ben."

Jade now is working as sports producer on Seven's Sunrise in Sydney.

"Work is fantastic," she said. "I was worried that leaving Seven Melbourne I was going to burn my bridges in Sydney, but they employed me on Sunrise pretty much straight away links of london bracelet.

"So while you're fast asleep, I'm at work at 1am until 10am getting all the breaking sports news from overnight.

"It's brilliant and . . . I'm on my toes the entire time."