A spectacular new exhibit in Nashville is to display a number of outstanding platinum trinkets, all central to the story of Tiffany & Co.

Now one of the most important jewelry retailers in the world, Tiffany & Co began as a relatively modest operation in 1837, when Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B Young opened a store in New York City.

Gemstones of Tiffany, the jewel exhibit on Abbott Martin Road, will include several of the pieces that helped to cement the company's reputation.

One of these is a choker designed by Lewis Comfort Tiffany, the son of founder Charles. The choker boasts baguette-cut and bullet-cut kunzites surrounded by platinum filigree, according to the Nashville City Paper.

Visitors to The Mall at Green Hills will also be able to view a necklace with five perfectly-matched pear-shaped tanzanites in platinum, the newspaper reports.

Similarly precious is the necklace of morganite briolettes, diamonds and delicate platinum chains, which perhaps surpasses any of the items on show in terms of its tantalizing beauty.

Morganite was discovered early last century in Madagascar by Dr George Frederick Kunz, who named it after American banker JP Morgan.