August

Do you know someone special with an August birthday? You might find the right gift for an August birthday with our jewelry fashioned after the August birthstone, peridot. Peridot is the August birthstone, and it is a member of the chrysolite family. This August birthstone ranges in color from light yellow-green to the intense bright green of new spring grass to a darker olive shade. It is rumored that peridot gems were used in the fabled Breastplates of the Jewish High Priest and historical legend says that the August birthstone was the favored gemstone of Cleopatra, though at the time they were called emeralds. High quality peridot comes from Zagbargad Island in the Red Sea, Myanmar, Australia, Brazil, Pakistan, and Arizona and Hawaii in the United States. Show your love with August birthstone jewelry today.