Start: February 25, 2025 1:30 p.m.
End: February 25, 2025 3 p.m.
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Presenter: James Murray, G.J.G., Murray’s Jewelers
Description: As a 5th generation owner of the Muncie based jewelry store, James Murray will discuss both his family’s 140-year history in business as well as the current state of Gemology. As a Graduate Gemologist James must keep up to date with the ever-changing cat-and-mouse game of gemstone enhancement and detection.
Bio: James grew up in Muncie, attending Burris Laboratory School K-12. Upon graduating from Burris in 1999, he moved to Carlsbad, California to study at the Gemological Institute of America. While there James studied bench jewelry, manufacturing and repair, wax carving, design and Gemology. After graduating as a Graduate Jeweler Gemologist, he moved back to Muncie to start working full time at Murray’s Jewelers downtown.
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