Sweden, Dec. 17 -- The prevalent motivation behind donning jewelry is the embellishment of one's aesthetic appeal. Less prevalent motives are metaphysical beliefs, spiritualism, faith and superstition, investment and derivation of personal aesthetic satiation, or hubristic self-fulfillment. The latter, and any others do not concern the discussion hereby. It concerns the most frequent motive, that of appearing aesthetically enhanced to others, or as a status-symbol vested in it by virtue of its rarity or through its monetary value.

The act of donning jewelry is mostly an expression of seeking acknowledgement from contemporaries and conforming to the prevailing aesthetic.

Spare a very meagre fraction, almost all gold jewelry-buyers, trade...