WALTER LAMPL’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH JADE

Walter Lampl launched his eponymous wholesale jewelry business in 1921, just one year after marrying lovely Sylvia Lichtenberg, whose birthday was in November. Sylvia was not enthusiastic about her birthstone, the topaz. So, after only six years in business, Walter demonstrated his devotion to his wife by launching a major campaign to have jade declared a new alternative birthstone for November.