Electric Blue Art Deco Sapphires With Diamonds
Art Deco Sapphires Set With Diamonds In A Chic 1920s Bracelet Offered by Lang Antiques and Estate Jewelry A highly decorative repeating geometric design gives this bracelet its original character and...
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The Sparkle Of Emerald And Diamond Art Deco
Sparkling Emerald And Diamond Art Deco Ring Offered by Lang Antique and Estate Jewelry It’s hard to imagine a more exciting engagement, cocktail or dinner ring than a three stone sparkler...
1960s Turquoise Jewelry With Diamonds And Other Gems
1960s Turquoise Jewelry Turquoise, one of the first gems ever mined (in Persia, now Iran, over 3000 years ago) was just as much a favourite in the 1960s as in...
Vintage Costume Jewelry Brands Trifari And Juliana
Trifari Costume Jewelry Since the 1920s, Trifari has been one of the mot admired and respected creators of costume jewelry in the USA. The company was founded in the 1910s by...
Beauties From The Archives Of The Jewelry Gig Facebook Page
From the Archives The four items posted below are from earlier posts on The Jewelry Gig Facebook page. We weren’t always conscientious about recording the source back then and sometimes,...
Selected Pieces From Sotheby’s Auction Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels
Sotheby’s has a jewelry auction happening next week, on 15th November 2017, in Geneva. We’ll take a look at just a few of the jewels for sale in the Magnificent...
Victorian Snake Jewelry And Two Twisty Serpent Brooches
Ah – that serpent jewelry so beloved of the Victorians… As the blog of AC Silver outlines: The cult of snake jewellery in the Victorian era began with Prince Albert proposing...
A Selection Of Jewelry Featuring Rose-Coloured Rhodolite Garnet
Rhodolite – the Rose-Coloured Garnet I read an interesting article today about rhodolite garnet, in The Jewellery Editor, an online jewelry magazine that’s always worth checking out. It was all...
Some New Arrivals of Russian Jewels At Romanov Russia
New Russian Jewels At Romanov Russia It’s always exciting to see what’s new at Romanov Russia Antique Jewelry. A selection below includes a fabulous men’s diamond ring, a classic emerald and...
Antique And Vintage Drop Earrings – Adornments For Ears
Adornments for the Ear Earrings have been a favourite form of adornment throughout recorded history – and probably long before that. The earliest record of decoration for the ears is from...
A Captivating Clutch of Cocktail Rings To Add Colour To Your Day
Cocktail Rings Add Colour Cocktail rings by nature are colourful, and like birds with bright plumage, they are made to be seen. Originating in the days of Prohibition in the...
Vock and Vintage Bespoke And One-Off Pieces And Vintage Jewelry
Vock and Vintage Donna Vock designs jewelry and a few of her beautiful one-off and custom pieces feature today. Vock and Vintage is the company she and her husband Alex...
Victorian And Contemporary Jewelry Designs
Victorian and Contemporary – Old and New Today a compare and contrast with a group of Victorian and contemporary pieces. Each of those periods operating under such different aesthetic values, but we...
Antique And Vintage Pearls Combined With Coloured Gems
Pearls with Coloured Gems… It’s always a fascinating mix… the lovely pearl (organic, soft, gently coloured), and the gemstone (hard, bright rocks). As one of our readers pointed out, it’s...
Pearls And Diamonds Together… Do They Hang Loose, Or Fizz!?
Pearls and Diamonds The English poet and playwright Robert Browning was born in the UK in 1812 and died in Venice in 1889. He was one of the foremost...
The Sparkle And Glow Of Diamond And Pearl Jewelry
Diamond and Pearl Jewelry… Diamonds glitter and shine and sparkle with an inner fire. They’re angular, crystalline, hard and bright – cut and ground and polished until they are sharp-edged, flat-planed...
A Selection Of The New Arrivals At Romanov Russia
For three centuries, from 1613 to 1917, the Romanov dynasty ruled Russia, expanded its boundaries, won wars, collected art, and amassed jewels both personally and for the state. It all...
Sparkling Emerald And Sapphire Jewelry – 1950s And Now
Sparkling Emerald And Sapphire Jewelry In the selection of jewelry below, the emeralds sparkle as green as ever, but the sapphires come in all sorts of colours, including the very...
Two Fine Examples Of French 19th Century Jewelry
Unlike Britain, which enjoyed one of its most stable governments and political periods, the 19th century was a time of political and economic upheaval for France. The reign of Louis...
Ancient Jewelry Shines Through The Centuries
Selected Pieces Of Ancient Jewelry Presented By Christie’s Antiquities Department A few items below, from the online sale “Ancient Jewelry: Wearable Art” presented by Christie’s Antiquities Department and featuring necklaces, rings, earrings...
