Ive just realised its been quite sometime since I updated you on the vintage cameo jewellery available on AntiquesAvenue. I have a great selection including earrings, brooches, stick pins and rings. Here are a few pieces that you might care to view. The thress cameo brooches here are all made of different materials but have [...]

Here’s just a few of my favourite Cameo brooches. Some have long gone to their new homes but their pictures remain…………. Victorian Lava Cameo Aurora Goddess of the dawn: I believe this chap is Asclepius who was the son of Apollo and the God of Medicine: HebeIn Greek mythology Hebe is the Goddess of youth & Eternal [...]

Cameo jewellery is often seen as brooches, rings and earrings. Less common but just as attractive are cameo charms, I suppose that these are found less often as a charm is small and therefore the picture is difficult to carve in miniature. Cameos are carved so that the picture stands proud of the background. Often [...]

Cameo Jewellery is back in fashion, for many years now it has been considered dated and Cameo Jewellery was something which jut sat in Grandmas Jewellery box. Now these pieces of antique and vintage jewellery are being brought out of the dark and show off again.  The range of antique and vintage cameo jewellery available [...]

Antique Cameo Jewellery often depicts classical scenes including those from Greek and Roman mythology. Before I add cameo jewellery to to my web shop I like to work out who the the characters in the cameo are. Today I found the lovely Goddess  Hebe.    Hebe is the Goddess of eternal your and beauty. Zeus was [...]

Vintage Compacts are very collectable with some costing several hundred pounds.  One type of Vintage Compact which is highly sought after is those set with Wedgwood Jasper Cameo plaques. Today I came across a particularly rare Wedgwood Jasper Cameo Compact which would be great for any compact collection or to accompany a collection of Cameo [...]

A few days ago I wrote about Cameo Jewellery and mentioned a special type of Cameo the Cameo Habille. Now I am luck enough to have a Cameo Habille to show you. Cameo Habille Brooch Pendant Diamond A very rare cameo indeed. This is a Cameo Habille which is French for Dressed Cameo . This lady [...]

Wedgwood Brooch One of the most popular type of antique or vintage brooches I get asked for is a Wedgwood Jasper cameo set brooch ( especially a Victorian one) just like in this picture. The central plaque of the brooch is made of Jasper a high fired ceramic. The design on this brooch has been [...]

Cat charms come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and materials, they are one of the more popular collectable vintage charms.  Cats often feature in nursery Rhymes and childrens stories. I’ve already shown you two of my favourites Hey Diddle Diddle and The owl and the Pussy cat . Now I have found Ding Dong [...]

Cameo jewellery is often seen as brooches, rings and earrings. Less common but just as attractive are cameo charms, I suppose that these are found less often as a charm is small and therefore the picture is difficult to carve in miniature. Cameos are carved so that the picture stands proud of the background. Often [...]

Here’s just a few of my favourite Cameo brooches. Some have long gone to their new homes but their pictures remain…………. Victorian Lava Cameo Aurora Goddess of the dawn: I believe this chap is Asclepius who was the son of Apollo and the God of Medicine: Hebe In Greek mythology Hebe is the Goddess of youth & [...]

Did you read my article About Cameo Jewellery?   I’ve a lovely piece of vintage Cameo Jewellery to give away. This cameo pendant is made of glass and set into gold tone metal and hangs from a sterling silver chain. This pendant measures about 3.3 cms long and the silver chain  is about 38 cms long [...]

Today I’m taking a look at the variety of cameos available to be worn as Jewellery. The cameo is a picture which stands above the background it is set on – a miniature work of art. Here are just five cameos available from antiquesavenue: 1. The classical Victorian Cameo brooch The classical Victorian cameo brooch depicts [...]

 Antique  Jewellery carved from Lava Seeing on the news about the underseas volcano erupting neat Tonga reminded me of a very unusual material used for making antique Jewellery – Lava from volcanoes. More specifically most of the lava jewellery we see was made from the Lava from Mount Vesuvius in Italy. The Lava is soft and [...]

I have been lucky to acquire quire a collection of vintage Wedgwood jasper jewellery mostly in its original boxes. One of these retained the original leaflet from Wedgwood giving a little on the history an care of Jasper jewellery. Since my last blog post touched on this subject I thought you would like to see [...]

Camoes have long been set into Jewellery – into brooches, rings, necklaces and bracelets. They have also been set into hair adornments, lockets and watch fobs amongst others. So what exacty is a cameo? It is a picture  in high relief where the picture stands out above the background. This picture is often hand carved . [...]

Wedgwood has been setting small blue jasper pottery cameos into Jewellery since the 19th Century. These pices are quite collectable with a wide range of pieces available for both Ladies ( rings, pendants, brooches and earrings) and also for gents where I have seen cuff links, stick / lapel pins and tie pins. Here are [...]