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Amber Vintage Jewellery and Brooches

Having now almost completed our different collections. I thought I would look at amber jewellery and also amber brooches. Amber glass vintage braceletWe have included both real tree resin amber and...

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Adrian Mann - Ways to Date Vintage Jewellery

There are many ways to date vintage jewellery, but today I have one way that has not been covered before.  Here is a photograph of an Adrian Mann vintage brooch produced in 1984. It is in a Scottish...

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New look to Jewels and Finery

At long last we have a new look to our vintage jewellery website. Hope you like it? We still have to make a few tweaks but nearly there.Here are just a few of the latest additions to Jewels and Finery....

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Definitive guide to cleaning gemstone jewellery

We at Jewels and Finery have written many guide to cleaning vintage jewellery on our website. Our latest is for cleaning gemstone jewellery. After writing this latest guide we thought it would be more...

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Green Gemstone Chip Vintage Jewellery

Time to write a blog has been too little just lately, but this beautiful May Sunday morning is the exception.So today lets look at the vintage jewellery craze from the 1970s - green gemstone chip...

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Celtic Penannular Brooches

A very popular design in Celtic jewellery is the penannular brooch. One original brooch was found in Ireland and was said to be from the Medieval period in history (6 - 7 AD). It seems that they were...

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May dragonfly brooches

Jewels and Finery has added more dragonfly brooches to our dragonfly jewellery collection. These little guys appear in early summer of the month of June, flitting around the UK ponds and rivers. Here...

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Alphabet soup - G & H jewelry

For the Jewelry Ring I have compiled this vintage jewellery selection with pieces from designers/manufacturers beginning with G and H.First I will start with Charles Horner of Halifax, UK. They also...

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Daily Jewels - vintage jewellery at half price for 24 hourss

We at Jewels and Finery have introduced our Daily Jewels bargains. Each day we will have half price vintage jewellery on offer. That is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - there will be three...

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Fabulous vintage jewellery reduced by half price in our Daily Jewels

Now we have continued with our Daily Jewels this bright sunny morning here in Solihull UK. This is where we reduce 3 or 6 pieces of vintage jewellery or any of our pre owned, antique or new vintage...

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We have over 300 different vintage brooches

It is amazing on how many different vintage brooches we have available. Some are genuine vintage with some being pre owned, antique and some are new with a vintage inspired look. Today's count shows...

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A Barcs vintage brooch from Australia and Monet

This morning we were adding a very stylish vintage enamel brooch from the Australian company Barcs. This brooch is inspired by the Art Deco period but was produced in the 1980s. Enameled in black with...

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Summer vintage jewellery and brooches

Now I know it is suppose to be summer here in the UK. But with rain and rain and more rain, not to mention the hail stones we have had recently this week. You could be forgiven for forgetting that it...

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My Own Vintage Jewellery for a spectacular evening

This weeks COW for the jewelry ring is what would you wear for a spectacular evening. Well this is the vintage jewellery and not so vintage, that I would choose? As this fantasy evening calls for the...

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Huge and big clip on earrings

Now you either wear clip on earrings or not. Useful if you have not got pierced ears but also can be worn if you do. Clip earrings first came into fashion in the 1930s and enjoyed about 50 years of...

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Changes to Jewels & Finery Uk for July

Good morning, now the sun is out so everything is bright! This month my husband and I have finally decided about making some changes to our websites. So it is with a heavy heart that we have closed our...

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Changes to vintage brooches

Over the last few weeks, we have been planning and making a few changes to our new look website. Starting with the vintage brooches collection. We now have this great new look. Instead of having the...

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Do you collect or wear bird brooches?

Now I know there are many people that collectbird brooches. Not as unusual as it sounds as the number of bird brooch particularly owl brooches have been flying of the virtual shelves. We have recently...

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Dating vintage necklaces, earrings and bracelet Sarah Coventry p16

Haven't completed the next part of the Spring 1976 catalogue from Sarah Coventry jewelry for a while. So this is part 16, just a single page number 49 that contains vintage necklaces with matching...

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Light weight vintage jewellery of a type of aluminum called Eloxal

Tuesday Topic of the day on the jewelry ring was for Eloxal vintage jewellery. Apparently it is light weight aluminum that is very shiny and does not tarnish. This rang a bell that I have come across...

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