Here is the latest update on Vintage  Brooches from www.antiquesavenue.co.uk. The brooches we offer date from the Georgian era right through to circa 1970s. There are costume jewellery brooches, silver and gold brooches too. The brooches are set with all sorts of gemstones including diamonds, amethysts, pearls and   costume jewellery stones. There are designer brooches, [...]

The 1960s and 1970s are often considered to be when the best English gold charms were produced. These charms have great quality and there is a huge variety of shapes and sizes to be found. The vintage charms vary in size from about 1 centimeters to three centimeters. Any more and the piece of jewellery [...]

British vintage charms from the 1960s and 1970s are most often seen in silver. The gold charm we see are sometimes smaller or less interesting than the silver ones however I am delighted to have found some truely excpetionaly vintage gold charms. These charms are all fully hallmarked as nine carat gold and are all [...]

Goldstone is a vintage jewellery material seen mainly in brooches of the later Victorian and Edwardian eras but seems to fade from popularity by 1920 – it surprises me that Goldstone was not used for longer as it really does sparkle wonderfully. It is actually a type of glass made with thousands of tiny copper [...]

Taking a look at vintage silver charms beginning with C.  I have been lucky enough to find three very articulated gold charms all of which are currently available at http://www.antiquesavenue.co.uk/ Articulated gold bracelet charm, Indians in Canoe What an unusual gold bracelet charm. This is made of fully hallmarked 9 carat gold and is in [...]

I have just added some fresh 1970s vintage gold charms to AntiquesAvenue.co.uk shop. Amongst the unusual charms are a 1960s /1970s mini car charm, a miners lamp, a map of Australia charm and an opening pack of cards charm. Also watch out for more vintage gold charms coming soon – a dragon, lighthouse and keepers cottage, a [...]

Time for a look at some vintage gold charms suitable for gifts this Christmas.  Vintage Gold charms make  great Christmas present as you can buy one each year to gradually build into a larger piece of jewellery full of special memories. Remember all the gold charms available from AntiqusAvenue are vintage and as such better [...]

I’ve reached the point in my exploration of vintage jewellery materials when its time to look at Gold, one of the best loved jewellery materials of all.  Here are a tips which may be useful if you are looking at buying vintage gold jewellery. What makes gold Jewellery Special? Gold is one of the major [...]

More gold charms beginning with C, Ive just been busy adding more vintage gold charms to AntiquesAvenue and found these lovely gold charms from my “C” collection. China man charmA lovely vintage gold charm made of fully hallmarked 9 carat gold. This charm is in the shape of a china man. The charm measures about [...]

Have you seen the price of gold recently? It seems to be going up every day. You will be amazed at what a vintage gold brooch you purchased a few years ago is worth today. The average price increase for gold over the last five years has been well over 15%. This is particularly favourable to [...]

Want to sell you old gold Jewellery? Have you been tempted by one of the many adverts offering to buy your gold jewellery? These companies are all over the place: on TV, in your local shopping center, advertising in magazine and through websites on the internet. They will buy your old gold jewellery for cash, it [...]

When we look at a piece of antique vintage jewellery which is gold coloured, how do we know if it is real gold or not?  There can be a huge difference in value between a piece of gold coloured metal and a piece of real gold. For example : we have two vintage rings both gold [...]