Jewelry or assets?

Gold and silver prices have only been on the rise for the last few months. Silver has doubled in price in the last year or so and gold is another story all together. In this day and age, when buy these rare metals is extremely difficult, given their expense, jewelry has come to be an asset for the common man as well as the investor. More and more people nowadays are turning to buying jewelry as a sort of investment or security. Jewelry is a good way of asset-building given how its cost is only appreciating in the global market.