The jeweled art creations of famous jewelry artist, Sidney Mobell are going on tour. The artist is known for making ultra expensive replicas of every day objects using precious materials and stones. His most famous piece, a $2 million Monopoly board, weighs 32 pounds, includes 60 diamonds, 47 sapphires, and 24 rubies. Each of the 28 title cards is gold plated, the tokens are 18-karat gold, and 42 diamonds display the numbers on the dice. It even earned a place in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the World’s Most Expensive Monopoly Board. Other works include solid gold mousetraps with a wedge of pave-diamond studded cheese, a diamond-encrusted gold cell phone, an 18-karat gold pacifier with 8 round brilliant diamonds, and a gold fishing reel studded with 5.1 carats in diamonds, 237 sapphires, and 253 rubies complete with a solid gold fish hook.
In 2003, 19 pieces of Mobell’s work were donated to the Smithsonian for their US National Gem Collection. Today the entire collection is touring the country making people look at the art of jewelry, precious stones and metals in a whole new light.