Sad to report that my favorite B&M jeweler that has the best antique, vintage, and house-made colored-stone jewelry in the Pacific Northwest (imo) is having what they are calling a "survival sale." 
Margulis is a century-old one-family shop in the middle of downtown Portland (OR) that is also near the epicenter of Portland's recent troubles. Perfectly safe during the day and evening but the site of one too many midnight protests, etc.
Nothing there ever (ever) goes on sale so this is unprecedented. Not "once-a-year," not ever. (I have zero relationship with them although I do not want to see them go out of business because they do the best custom work I have ever seen.) This is not a fake sale; this is their actual "A" stuff. I am still on their mailing list and made the long trip (we used to live in Oregon) -- some of my old faves were still there and we even made a (completely unnecessary) purchase. They were doing a brisk business, which seemed to befuddle them a bit.
They have a terrible (very incomplete) website and vestigial IG presence. You have to go there to see what they have. Lots of Deco and colored stones. No giant diamonds if that's your thing. All very tasteful and often understated. It's an old-school, refined, zero-pressure environment. It looks "snooty" from the outside; they are not. They know what's heated or treated and what is not. They will not gaslight you. They have a superb gemologist (who ran an overseas outpost of a tippy-top lab), an amazing metalsmith, and a "jewelry-historian" owner who knows his $#@%.
Mods, if this is not cool, please act accordingly. Although it's not my town, it is my region. I have never used their name on this forum because it's a little close to home. But I feel I can't sit on the sidelines and watch this "jewel" implode. They do not know I am on PS and they certainly did not ask me to post this.
Margulis is a century-old one-family shop in the middle of downtown Portland (OR) that is also near the epicenter of Portland's recent troubles. Perfectly safe during the day and evening but the site of one too many midnight protests, etc. Nothing there ever (ever) goes on sale so this is unprecedented. Not "once-a-year," not ever. (I have zero relationship with them although I do not want to see them go out of business because they do the best custom work I have ever seen.) This is not a fake sale; this is their actual "A" stuff. I am still on their mailing list and made the long trip (we used to live in Oregon) -- some of my old faves were still there and we even made a (completely unnecessary) purchase. They were doing a brisk business, which seemed to befuddle them a bit.
They have a terrible (very incomplete) website and vestigial IG presence. You have to go there to see what they have. Lots of Deco and colored stones. No giant diamonds if that's your thing. All very tasteful and often understated. It's an old-school, refined, zero-pressure environment. It looks "snooty" from the outside; they are not. They know what's heated or treated and what is not. They will not gaslight you. They have a superb gemologist (who ran an overseas outpost of a tippy-top lab), an amazing metalsmith, and a "jewelry-historian" owner who knows his $#@%.
Mods, if this is not cool, please act accordingly. Although it's not my town, it is my region. I have never used their name on this forum because it's a little close to home. But I feel I can't sit on the sidelines and watch this "jewel" implode. They do not know I am on PS and they certainly did not ask me to post this.
. 3+ months later, it is official: Margulis Jewelers in downtown Portland, Oregon, is closing after 90 years. I just got an all-customers email with the bad news. It was a real gut-punch. 
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