Penny Alleman’s mother loved gold.

It was her signature color, her business color and it went well with her blond hair, goal-oriented habits and rags-to-riches story.

Of course, there was some luck involved, good lucky charms to be more specific.

Alleman’s mother was Penny Lemmáy, a famous maker of amulets in the 1970s and ’80s.

For years that turned into decades, however, Alleman wasn’t sure what to do with her mother’s remaining amulets, the small artistic treasures that connected her to the mother she loved and suddenly lost.

Alleman began losing sleep, thinking about the amulets in boxes, tubs or safety deposit boxes, waiting.

If something happened to her, she thought, her husband most likely would take the amulets and everything connected to them to Goodwill. “He was never part

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