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Unusual vintage bead necklaces to wear to any occasion

Decided this bright sunny September morning to write a little about unusual vintage bead necklaces. Now we have many other types of vintage necklace, but I do like the beads the most. Now I collect...

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Scarf clips 1960s fashion brochure from Style A Scarf

I do love collecting old brochures and adverts for vintage jewellery. This one is for scarf clips and I estimate its from the 1960s or early 1970s. Called "Style A Scarf" and produced by Bernard...

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Jewels and Finery: Scarf clips 1960s fashion brochure from Style A Sc...

Jewels and Finery: Scarf clips 1960s fashion brochure from Style A Sc...: I do love collecting old brochures and adverts for vintage jewellery . This one is for scarf clips and I estimate its from the...

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What is a vintage brooch?

This is a quick coffee break guide to what is a vintage brooch?So to be an original and genuine vintage brooch is to do with its age rather than its good looks. It can either have been produced between...

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Choose a vintage jewellery piece for a Christmas gift

Yes it's that time of the year. The thrill with Christmas gifts is not in the receiving but the giving. So choosing something to match that person is an art in its self. Especially if anything like my...

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Just some of our vintage jewellery this December!

With December flying bye, we have been adding more vintage jewellery as well as other types to Jewels & Finery UK. From sparkling party wear to everyday occasion with Christmas brooches, earrings...

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Tacky alien jewellery and the end of the world.

Reading many articles about the end of the world on the 21st December 2012, early this year. Some so fantastical that you couldn't quite believe and some that common sense told you the answer. The...

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A book of Ciro Pearls & Jewels (First part)

One of the great producers of vintage jewellery in the UK was Ciro Pearls. Although an English jewellery company, they sold worldwide with shops in America, London, Manchester, Glasgow and many other...

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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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Vintage jewellery from Boxing day is now with.......

Well with Christmas day over and Boxing day just half over we have started our great Winter Sale of vintage jewellery right through to our new jewellery collections. In fact everything on Jewels and...

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New year and new vintage buttons

Happy New Year 2013....We have started this year with a new collection of vintage buttons. Over the last few years we at Jewels & Finery UK have amassed a huge amount of vintage buttons that are in...

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Vintage jewellery unsigned beauties for COW Jan 2013

Merry suggested this months vintage jewellery COW of unsigned beauties for the Jewelry Ring forum on Yahoo. There is a huge amount of vintage brooches, earrings, necklace, scarf clips, bracelet and...

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Vintage brooches to covert this dark January

The weather is cold and the mornings through to the evenings still dark and dismal. So we have added some great vintage brooches for this month. All new to Jewels and Finery UK along with other vintage...

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Next part of Ciro Pearls 1950s catalogue (second post)

The company Ciro Pearls produced some fabulous vintage jewellery here in the UK. Distributed world wide and famous for their pearl necklaces and vintage brooches. They produced a series of catalogues...

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Peacock and fantasy bird jewellery

The COW for the Jewelry ring this time is peacock and fantasy birds. So here are a few vintage bird brooches that qualify. One of the most used designs in vintage jewellery right up to today, because...

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1939 Vintage Jewellery from Hollywood

On a previous blog we have information that vintage jewellery by Hollywood was made in Birmingham and by the Bloxidge Brothers. This information came from 2 separate sources not on the internet....

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Sea people and friends vintage jewellery

The COW (topic of the week) for JR is mermaids and sea people vintage jewellery. Having no mermaids I would like to show this vintage brooch from Vogue Jewelry.It is a crab person brooch from the...

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My vintage jewellery - What is it worth?

Every day we have people post either to our email address or to our blog the burning question "My vintage jewellery - What is it worth?" Unfortunately we can not answer these questions as we do not...

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Changes with vintage jewellery signed Exquisite 1954

Important changes happened within W A P Watson Ltd with Exquisite jewellery. Up until 1954 the company has manufactured their now vintage jewellery and sold to shops and other places as a wholesaler....

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Background and progress for Ciro Pearls jewellery post war years

This is the third part of the Ciro Pearls vintage jewellery catalogue. During the Second World war. Almost every jewellery company turned their factory over to producing goods that enabled the war...

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