Peter Shemonsky

Jewelry

Updated: 7.27.09

Peter Shemonsky is director of the San Francisco office of CIRCA, the only international firm solely dedicated to the purchase of fine jewelry, which has offices throughout the United States and overseas. He has worked within the jewelry industry throughout his professional career in retailing, design and manufacturing, and with various national and international auction houses over the past twenty years.

He holds a B.F.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art in goldsmithing and a graduate gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America. He is a member of the International Society of Appraisers and is the course writer and instructor for the society's course on antique and period jewelry. In addition, he is a nationally recognized lecturer and writer on antique and period jewelry, and one of the founding board members for the American Society of Jewelry Historians West Coast chapter.