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Wedding Anniversaries

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Anniversary	First list	Second list	Third list	Fourth list
1st		Cotton	Paper	Clocks
2nd		Paper	Cotton	China
3rd		Leather	Leather	Crystal/glass
4th		Flower or fruit	Linen(silk)	Appliances
5th		Wood	Wood	Silverware
6th		Iron or sugar candy	Iron	Wood objects
7th		Wool	Wool (Copper)	Desk sets
8th		Bronze or electrical appliance	Bronze	Linen, lace
9th		Copper or pottery	pottery(china)	leather goods
10th		Tin	Tin/aluminium	Diamond
11th		Steel	Steel	Fashion Jewelry
12th	Agate	Silk and Fine Linen	Silk	Pearls/colored gens
13th	Moonstone	Lace	Lace	textiles/furs
14th	Moss Agate	Ivory	Ivory	gold jewelry
15th	Rock Crystal	Rock Crystal	Rock Crystal	watches
16th	Topaz			Silver holloware
17th	Amethyst			Furniture
18th	Garnet			Porcelain
19th	Jacinth			Bronze
20th	Sapphire	China	China	Platinum
25th	Silver	Silver	Silver	Sterling silver
30th	Pearl	Pearl	Pearl	Diamond
35th	Coral	Coral	Coral(Jade)	Jade
39th	Cat's Eye			Lace
40th	Ruby	Ruby	Ruby	Ruby
50th	Gold	Gold	Gold	Gold
55th	Emerald	Emerald	Emerald	Emerald
60th	Diamond	Diamond	Diamond	Diamond

Lace

Iron

Moonstone

Sapphire

Amethyst

Zircon

Jade

Tiger's Eye

Silver

Ruby

Gold

Emerald

Diamond

Here are several lists of presents for wedding anniversaries. The first list is a jewelry list. It is a little strange, since topaz, a precious gem, is at 16th, earlier than silver. Jacinth (which I presume is the modern stone - a zircon) is later than garnet, amethyst or topaz, all more conventional gem stones. I've assumed that Cat's Eye is Tiger's Eye - very odd at 39th. It's an attractive stone, but you can pick up polished tiger's eye extremely cheap at rock shops!

The second list covers other materials as well. The reference to 'sugar candy' makes me suspect that this is at least partly American (although I found it in Brewer's Phrase and Fable). 'Electrical appliances' suggests that this is definitely a modernlist! The early anniversaries seem to mix materials which would make good presents (wood, leather, fine linen) with materials such as paper and flowers or fruit - stingy!

The third and fourth lists come from an American website which is no longer there, but is repeated in Wikipedia. The third list is traditional and the fourth modern. The third is similar to the second, but not in the same order. I haven't even included all the fourth, since it takes in every year up to 50th, with increasing implausible gifts, such as 'Improved real estate' and 'Optical goods', and for 49th says rather pathetically 'Luxuries, any kind'!

The link on Lace leads to my bobbin lace site.

I think that you should only buy something from these lists if you like the material or gemstone. They are mostly designed to make you spend money!