REMEMBRANCE DAY BEAUTIES…

This year I have decided to sell some beautiful Poppy brooches and also a Stratton Poppy Powder Compact, and give 50% of the proceeds to the British Legion Poppy Appeal, which will total a nice round £100 when all is done. So, here they are:- The first brooch is from the famous Bradford Exchange and …

Beautiful Vintage Valentine’s Day Gifts

Give your loved one a beautiful vintage gift this year, for Valentine's day..

CORO & TRIFARI PATENTED NECKLACES FROM THE PRE-1955 ERA

JEWELLERY PATENTS Recently I have been finding an increasing number of the most beautiful jewellery pieces that date from the pre-copyright era, and these pieces usually have something like 'Pat. Pend.' stamped on the back or 'Patent Applied for' or something like that. Sometimes they have an actual patent number, but usually they have been …

LITTLE BITS OF GLITZ – DRESS CLIPS & DUETTE CLIPS

LITTLE BITS OF GLITZ - DRESS CLIPS & DUETTE CLIPS Coro Duette Clip/brooch - (now sold) I have recently acquired quite a few of these beautiful pieces of jewellery which are truly from another era - more than any other piece of jewellery in my Etsy shop: Vintage Jewellery Fun !! these are so redolent …

AUTUMN VINTAGE JEWELLERY INSPIRATION

Last Saturday, we went off down to the RHS's main garden at Wisley for a book signing and some Autumnal inspiration - the garden was simply resplendent in its beautiful autumnal colours, and this got me thinking about autumn-inspired jewellery. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when the biggest vintage brands were in their heyday …

The Queen at Royal Ascot 2014

ROYAL ASCOT 2014 WHAT THE QUEEN WORE !! Royal Ascot has been in progress just this last week, and as usual, there were all manner of beautiful outfits to be seen, and of course, many fun and crazy hats in attendance - so many that I have had to divide them into colour sections over …

E-bay sale 1 : 1980s Gold-plated sets & Necklaces

BRILLIANT NEW 1980s GOLD-PLATED & ENAMEL SETS AND NECKLACES SALE No 1 : 20 ITEMS Come and see my newest lot of jewellery items for sale over at e-Bay now that their new rules for listings have come into force. The new rule is your first 20 items listed for free, no matter what their …

2 x MYSTERY BROOCHES FROM PARIS !!

MYSTERY BROOCH 1 : ART NOUVEAU FALLOW DEER BROOCH Come and have a little look at two brooches I have recently acquired in a job lot of jewellery - both look like real gold, or at least gold-plate - and both are proving a bit of a mystery as far as their origins are concerned …

**FABULOUS NEW JEWELLERY ITEMS FOR SALE !**

Seeing as E-bay, in their infinite wisdom, decided to give us all a free listing week for the New Year, I went ahead and got in another 30 new bits and pieces in my jewellery listings - so do come and see what I have on offer - bangles, bracelets, and many pairs of earrings …