Shelia Barron SmithieSince 2000, Sheila Smithie has been a jewelry specialist and appraiser for Skinner Auctioneers, Bonhams and Macklowe Gallery. She is a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, and recipient of its 2005 Christie's Prize. From 2013, sheconsulted for Beth Wees, jewelry curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, helping to research the museum's holdings for the 2018 exhibition "Jewelry: The Body Transformed". She designed and taught the course "Gems and Jewelry: History and Markets" for masters degree students at Sotheby's Institute in New York. A graduate of Harvard College, she spent her early career in investment banking, working in Europe and Latin America. Read More Read Less