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Antique Jewellery
Antique Jewellery and Victorian Jewellery from circa 1800 to circa 1900. Antique Brooches a speciality, there is a good selection of antique stick pins and antique fobs. Cameo Jewellery of all kinds including brooches and rings. Whenever I can find them, genuine antique victorian bracelets and lockets . The Jewellery here is from the Georgian and Victorian eras
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A very rare antique costume jewellery set consisting of a matching brooch and pendant. These are both made of glass set into gold toned metal and studded with green diamante. I have added a gold toned chain to the pendant which matches well but it is not original to the set The pendant and its bail measures about 4.7 cms long and the chain is about 44 cms long. The brooch measures about 4 cms long.
For antique jewellery dating back over 100 years, this set is in really excellent condition.
£65.00
Antique Guard chain gold plated antique Jewellery
Antique guard chains are very popular and with the price of solid gold being so high, here is a chance to own one at a reasonable price. This guard chain is gold plated An has the traditional dog clip attached.
The chain measures about 150 cms long and weighs about 37 grams
£35.00
A super piece of antique jewellery which can be worn as either a pendant or a brooch. This pendant is made of 9 carat gold and is set with seed pearls and amethyst gemstones. The back of this antique jewel has a brooch fastening and also a loop so that it can be worn as a pendant. This measures 2.5 cms wide and up to 3 cms long. This pendant brooch dates from the earlier 1900s.
£100.00
A small but beautiful antique Lavaliere pendant which would have been made in the early 1900s. This tests as 9 carat gold but is not hallmarked there is a small seed pearl inset and a peridot coloured glass stone suspended at the base. The bail ( hanging loop) is newer than the lavalier pendant.
This piece of antique jewellery measures about 2.7 cms long. It is in good antique condition.
£48.00
A genuine piece of antique jewellery, this is an original Victorian silver locket with vintage leaf decoration and a central monogram. This locket could hold a couple of photos or a small memento. The locket measures about 4 cms long plus the bail, it dates from circa 1870s to 1890 ish
£85.00
A genuine piece of antique jewellery from the Victorian era. This pendant or Fob is made from Vulcanite and set with a ceramic plaque with a picture of a boy in highland dress. I suspect this is meant to be Bonnie Price Charlie. This attaches to a necklace or perhaps as a fob to a watch chain by a metal clip. This piece of antique jewellery measures about 4.5 cms long plus the bail.
The front of this fob or pendant is in excellent condition. Any white flashes you can see in the picture are my poor photography and do not appear in real life. there are a couple of minor nicks the the reverse of the pendant.
£55.00
A pretty antique gold ring from the early 1900s. This ring is fully hallmarked as 18 carat gold and is set with three real diamonds and two blue sapphires. The ring is boat shaped with the head measuring up to 0.7 cms wide and this is finger size UK R.25, USA size 9. An excellent piece of antique jewellery
£165.00
This antique silver locket has full Victorian hallmarks which date it to 1885. This Victorian Locket has floral decoration and comes on its own collar type necklace.
The locket measures 4.5 cms long plus bails. The collar necklace is about 42 cms long and fastens with a box shaped clasp. The necklace measures up to 1.2 cms wide. There are a couple of tiny indentations on the reverse only of the locket ( see the last photo) these are just age related and in no way detract from the functioning of this locket.
£240.00
Here's a genuine antique Victorian vulcanite necklace which fastens at the back with a large hook. Necklaces like this were worn as mourning jewellery during the Victorian era and are getting much rarer today. Vulcanite was a very early type of plastic developed during the Victorian era. The links are about 1.7 cms wide and the necklace is about 54 cms long in total.
An excellent piece of antique Jewellery
£60.00
Here's a nice piece of antique jewellery from the early 1900s during the Edwardian era. This is a locket where a photo is held between two pieces of glass. The locket is made of fully hallmarked 9 carat gold and can be dated to 1905. This can be worn as a pendant but is also a good size to be used as a Fob and it measures about 2 cms diameter.
£45.00
A lovely original piece of Victorian jewellery. This cross is made of Gutta Percha which was a popular material for black jewellery at that time. The cross has a border of Ivy leaves, in the Victorian language of flowers Ivy leaves stood for Fidelity, friendship and marriage. This cross measures about 6.3 cms long and 4 cms wide. This cross has a tiny nick on the reverse which does not show from the front.
£35.00
About Antique Jewellery
Antique Jewellery is quite different from vintage jewellery, not only is it older but its style is very different as it was made to suit the fashions of the time, from the materials available at the time and to be worn on the fabrics available at the time. Due to these differences AntiquesAvenue offers you a good selection of antique jewellery seperate from vintage jewellery . Here is a bit about Antique Jewelelry from the Georgian era through to 1920.
Georgian Jewellery
( 1714 -1830): In the Georgian era most things including Jewellery were hand made by craftsmen. The real age of industrial production did not start until the late 1700's and so at the most is will contain an element of mass production being mostly made by hand. Gold of this era is 18 or 22 carat and stones are most likely set into silver and have a closed back. Popular items were brooches, pearl necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Often these items would be ties or suspended onribbon rather than chains as we do today. Large diamond deposits were discovered during the Georigian ear and thechnology made it possible to cut these to give them sparkle for the first time.
Victorian Jewellery
(1830-1901): Industrialisation enables the mass production of larger and cheaper pieces adn for the first time costume jewellery made an appearance. Gold became more available with its discovery in America and Australia. In 1854 9, 12 and 15 carat gold started to be used making cheaper gold jewllery a fashion. More sources of coloured gemstones were discoveres and the backs were left open in jewellery which gave added brilliance to the stones. Different trends tended to follow the fashion of Queen Victorian herself : mourning jewllery following the death of Price Albert and Scottish pebble jewellery during her pashion for all things from Scotland. At the end of the Victorian era we see the start of the arts movements each with their own stylish influence on Jewellery: Arts and Crafts from about 1890 to 1914 and Art Nouveau from circa 1895 to 1915. Popular symbold and motifs were Sporting and Good Luck symbols
Edwardian Jewellery
(1901 to 1910) and throught to 1920: The Edwardian era actually lasted until 1910 but the styles in Jewellery largely remained the same up until circa 1920. The Edwardian style in Jewellery embraced precious metals, Gold ( and rolled gold) with platinum being used for precious stone mountings. Gemstones were popular including Pearls, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, garnets, aquamarines, opals and lovely moonstones. Popular motifs included flowers, birds, hearts and stars.
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