Photo: Tristan Williams
When Mary Loose DeViney recently told a customer her watch would cost more to repair than it was worth, the customer said DeViney should keep it, thinking the owner of Tuel Jewelers would use it for parts. Instead, DeViney added the watch to her “junk box.” Turns out the Downtown Mall jewelry shop’s junk box is a treasure chest for area costume designers who stop by when they’re searching for their version of Rose’s Heart of the Ocean necklace from Titanic or the black diamond ring Big gave Carrie in Sex and the City 2. Because sometimes in a production, jewelry is just jewelry—except when it’s the star of the show.