10 eras of vintage Costume Jewellery , a new mini series.

Over the next week or so I am planning a new mini series here all about the history of Vintage Costume Jewellery. I will be looking at the style, themes , motifs, colours and materials popular at the time hopefully helping you to identify how old your special pieces are. Also I will include a few famous designer names to look out for where relevant

1. Ancient and Medieval Costume Jewellery

- What did Ancient Egyptian Jewellery have in common with costume Jewellery of today?

2. Victorian and Georgian Costume Jewellery

The earliest pieces of costume jewellery which can easily be found today are from the Georgian era and the Victorians introduced a whole new range of materials and styles.

3. Edwardian Era and 1910s

Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and the romanticism of the Edwardian times

4. Art Deco Costume Jewellery

1920s and 1903s bold colours design and new materials which followed from the difficult times of the first world war

5. 1940s and the cocktail era

The huge influence of the USA on costume Jewellery design

6. 1950s and diamante

As life returned to normal after the second world war design changed and the 1950s again brought new styles and materials, space age Jewellery

7.1960s and pop art jewellery

Plastics, shiny metals and simple bold designs and colours – pop art and psychedelia

8.1970s

Not exciting but collectable for the future?

9.1980s

Wonderful new designs and copies of old ones

10. Contemporary Costume Jewellery to collect

What is available from the 1990s and 200o’s to buy today and collect for tomorrow?

Want to see some vintage costume jewellery?

Vintage earrings flower diamante 1950s costume jewellery

 These vintage earrings are super examples of how diamante can be used for best effect in costume jewellery. Just look at the range of shapes, sizes colours and finishes to the stones. All the diamante have been individually prong set. These are clip on type earrings. They date from vintage 1950s and measure about 4 cms long

Have you seen my range of vintage costume jewellery earrings?

vintage art deco lavalier necklace green glass filigree

 An original vintage necklace from the art deco era. This is made of green glass beads with filigree metal detail in lavalier style. This necklace measures about 42 cms long with the pendant drop being a further 6.8 cms. This necklace dates from circa 1930sHave you seen my other original glass vintage costume jewellery necklaces?