No human is devoid of a desire and most human especially women have a liking for jewelry and jewelry gifts.  From ancient times, jewelry has always been a means of expressing one’s image to society.  Even in stone age, we can find that stone age men and women considered it a matter of pride to wear jewels made of stones and bones of animals.  These were birthstones considered as a symbol of their supremacy and the more jewels they wore, they were respected more.  Even now in many African tribal community, wearing metal bangles or rings around jewelry the neck is considered important and as a status symbol.  While the tribes still continue to maintain the importance of these steel and iron jewels, this fancy and attraction has found no exception in the city life too.

  However as the culture is different in cities and towns, these jewels are replaced with precious metals and stones .Today even men tend to get attracted towards gold or platinum jewels and there is an overall inclination towards using birthstone jewelry as they jewelry stores are considered lucky. These birthstones are classified based on the zodiac signs and each stone is said to have a particular character that suits the person with the particular zodiac sign and hence gemology has gained wide popularity.