There are many beautiful gemstones that are not in the traditional birthstone category. Some of these gemstone may actually be part of the "Old World Birthstone Chart" but not used as the birthstone here in the USA. There are numerous Old World Birthstones from Greek, Roman, Jewish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Italian, and 15th to 20th Century. Although there is some overlap in this cart, many are uniquely only from that culture.