Every lady loves to receive jewellery for Christmas. There is sparkle, a hit of extravagance and romance behind the gift of jewellery. Its a gift that lasts and is appreciated for many years.  Vintage jewellery has an additional benefit of coming with a touch of mystery from the past.   Here’s AntiquesAvenue’s guide to the top ten piece of jewellery [...]

Made by the quality Jewelers Mappin and Webb, this necklace is in art deco style. The necklace is white gold and there are 15 real diamonds set into it. The pendant measures about 2.6 cms long and the necklace will hang at about 46 cms long in total. This lovely piece of jewellery is stamped with the Mappin [...]

I’ve been finding out about Majorica pearls today as I came across this most beautiful faux pearl necklace and I thought they were worth researching. Majorica pearls are made in Majorca, in fact I remember visiting the workshop where they are made about 30 years ago. At that time I thought they were truly wonderful [...]

There’s a real treat for Vintage Jewellery lovers over at antiquesavenue. I’ve a few special lots of genuine vintage costume jewellery available at bargain wholesale prices.  All of these lots of jewellery are packed full of genuine vintage jewellery.  Currently there is one lot of brooches and several lots of glass necklaces and I will [...]

I’ve spent most of today re-organising the vintage necklaces in my website shop. To try and make them easier to find I’ve divided them into types, Antique necklaces, Vintage necklaces, Glass Necklaces, Lockets and Pendants. Whilst I was doing this I started to think about all the different types of vintage glass necklaces strung with beads [...]

Its 18 months since I last wrote about Antique Lavaliere and since then I have acquired some really super examples of this special type of antique jewellery.     A Lavaliere is a type of pendant necklace. The term refers to a jewelled pendant on chain and was widely used in the first part of the [...]

Vintage Necklaces are featured this week on AntiquesAvenue vintage jewellery shop.  As a special offer for AntiquesAvenue blog readers I am giving away a vintage necklace and two vintage pendants – see the end of this post for details.  Lets take a look at the range and types of vintage and antique jewellery you can wear [...]

Pearl Necklaces – how to choose the right one to wear So you fancy a vintage necklace? Pearl necklaces are very fashionable now but how do you choose from the huge variety available. As with all Jewellery is is nice to buy vintage jewellery as you will have something more unique and most likely at [...]

Edwardian amber pendant Lavalier: A Lavalier is a type of pendant necklace. The term refers to a jewelled pendant on chain and was widely used in the first part of the last century. The necklace can be made of fine jewels or costume jewellery – the material is not what counts here it is the [...]