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123Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry at Curtis Steiner’s eponymous Ballard shop, you’ll also find the owner’s meticulously crafted, delicate gemstone jewelry. This necklace is made with Czech, Italian, and French beads from the 1800s, garnet, and antique Japanese glass-headed brass pins.4Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry […]

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Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry at Curtis Steiner’s eponymous Ballard shop, you’ll also find the owner’s meticulously crafted, delicate gemstone jewelry. This necklace is made with Czech, Italian, and French beads from the 1800s, garnet, and antique Japanese glass-headed brass pins.

Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry at Curtis Steiner’s eponymous Ballard shop, you’ll also find the owner’s meticulously crafted, delicate gemstone jewelry. This necklace is made with Czech, Italian, and French beads from the 1800s, garnet, and antique Japanese glass-headed brass pins.

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Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry at Curtis Steiner’s eponymous Ballard shop, you’ll also find the owner’s meticulously crafted, delicate gemstone jewelry. This necklace is made with Czech, Italian, and French beads from the 1800s, garnet, and antique Japanese glass-headed brass pins.

Among salvaged turn-of-the-century carnival accents and gorgeously restored antique jewelry at Curtis Steiner’s eponymous Ballard shop, you’ll also find the owner’s meticulously crafted, delicate gemstone jewelry. This necklace is made with Czech, Italian, and French beads from the 1800s, garnet, and antique Japanese glass-headed brass pins.

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Many of Steiner’s pieces seem to float on the body. Here, antique embroidery floss from Japan is bundled with tiny pearls and tied along a nylon string. The chalcedony pendant grounds them.

Many of Steiner’s pieces seem to float on the body. Here, antique embroidery floss from Japan is bundled with tiny pearls and tied along a nylon string. The chalcedony pendant grounds them.

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Many of Steiner’s pieces seem to float on the body. Here, antique embroidery floss from Japan is bundled with tiny pearls and tied along a nylon string. The chalcedony pendant grounds them.

Many of Steiner’s pieces seem to float on the body. Here, antique embroidery floss from Japan is bundled with tiny pearls and tied along a nylon string. The chalcedony pendant grounds them.

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19th Century Czech glass and apatite are strung on nylon in this lariat-style necklace.

19th Century Czech glass and apatite are strung on nylon in this lariat-style necklace.

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19th Century Czech glass and apatite are strung on nylon in this lariat-style necklace.

19th Century Czech glass and apatite are strung on nylon in this lariat-style necklace.

SOME PEOPLE ENTERED the Ballard boutique looking for Space Needle shot glasses. They were confused by the name: Souvenir. When the decade-old jewelry and objets d’art apothecary succumbed to urban renewal, owner Curtis Steiner treated it as a death. “Out of respect I started over with a new name,” says the shopkeeper of…




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