The good news for the auction houses came in the jewelry sales.

For example, jewelry sales were down 3.2 percent from last year, and home entertainment, which included electronics, was down 6.3 percent, according to the council.

In 2009, Tiffany had worldwide net earnings of $368.4 million, 90% of which derived from jewelry sales.

Starr at some point conducted jewelry sales with a brother from her website.

Still, video-retailing companies are growing at dizzying rates, and industry leaders say the growth of jewelry sales is keeping pace.

His limited funds fitted with the fake list of jewelry sales that he had entered in his little black book.

Her father was Jewish and had many jobs, including mail delivery, jewelry sales and time as a vice president of a major freight line.

Although the company won't give figures on jewelry sales, it does say that total sales for last year were more than $2.1 billion.

By mid-December, men's jewelry sales were 40 percent ahead of 1985 sales.

He has started dabbling in gold coins and wholesale jewelry sales.