The featured vintage jewellery at antiquesavenue this week is all made of silver.  Silver has long been a favourite material to make jewellery from as it it takes a shape well, is quite durable and looks good when it is being worn. Silver was used widely throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras. You can find vintage jewellery made of silver in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, the modernist eras and right up to new silver jewellery of today.

Later this week I will be taking a look at silver as a material and how to care for  silver and how you can date it from its hallmarks.

Here are a few pieces as featured in my vintage jewellery shop this week:

Vintage bracelets made by Coro

This piece of vintage Jewellery was made by Coro – the link bar is impressed “Ster Coro”. There are 5 individual bangles joined by this cross bar. They measure 6.5 cms diameter. This is most likely from the 1970s when coro started to make their own silver jewellery.

silver bracelet

Vintage necklace Scandinavian Silver Ivar Holt Norway

A great vintage necklace made of silver by Ivar Holt in Norway. Scandinavian silver jewellery such as this is most sought after and collectable. The Ivar Holt makers H logo is impressed into the reverse and this vintage necklace is also impressed as sterling silver.
It is made of 11 links and measures 39 cms long when fastened. This Scandinavian silver necklace measures about 2 cms wide and weighs around 50 grams

silver necklace

Antique silver locket  

antique silver locket Victorian hallmarked 1880s

An antique silver locket which is fully hallmarked for 1883. This locket has Victorian aesthetic decoration which is typical of the time it was made. This antique silver locket opens and there is space for your own photographs or a small momento.

The locket comes on a silver chain which is much newer than the locket itself

silver locket

Vintage silver jewellery for men

It was not just ladies that wore silver jewellery. You can find vintage jewellery for men too. Look out for silver Albert watch chains and fobs which are sought after as accessories for mens evening wear – they look so smart with a waistcoat.   There are also tie pins made from silver available and of course made different designs of cufflinks too.