i may be missing some of the saga here
but if you are transporting them home to give to your wife as a gift, and if she is returning to Dubai with you after the holidays, then why not just drop them in a safe deposit box in a reputable bank in Dubai while you are briefly out of the country? Sure, you'll have to transport them back home eventually. But at least this would buy you some time to procrastinate checking out the customs laws further....that or make the story more believable when your wife goes through customs wearing the jewls and saying, "Oh these old things? I've had them for years!"
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 10 Dec 2008, 21:49, Reply)