Vintage and Antique Jewellery
Stunning 1950s paste necklace
Price: £25
This is a beautiful necklace that features large emerald cut paste stones all around the necklace
Art Deco Aventurine Bead Necklace 1930s
Price: £40
This is a very unusual bead necklace comprised of mainly aventurine beads, with other beads mixed in
English silver filigree bracelet 1900
Price: £35
This is a gorgeous quality English silver filigree bracelet, made from many overlapping stations with a floral motif. With integrated clasp
Beautiful vintage earrings with diamantes 1940s
Price: £25
The is a wonderful pair of earrings made from celluloid inset with many diamantes, pierced
Long strand of large millefiore glass beads 1960s
Price: £25
This is an incredible strand of Italian millefiore beads spaced with round beads, a modern twist on a classic design.
Two necklaces, Japanese mother of pearl 1940s
Price: £15
This is two necklaces that are made of mother of pearl and celluloid, one with inlaid pendant and links.
Japanese damascene demi parure, necklace and bracelet 1950s
Price: £25
This is a lovely Japanese damascene necklace and bracelet with natural motifs in a floral shape
Goldette NY Egyptian Revival Statement Necklace, 1980s
Price: £75
This is a very striking large necklace with a very large central pendant with seven drops ending in glass beads. Made from gilt metal.
Large Turquoise Pendant
Price: £20
This is very striking large turquoise pendant, probably from Thailand or India
Art Deco 4 strand necklace with Mother of Pearl and Amber Bakelite Beads 1920s
Price: £60
This a very striking long necklace with 4 strands of mother of pearl and amber Bakelite beads that meet with a round bead on the side, a lot of work went into this necklace, perfect Art Deco design
Art Deco style amber ring
Price: £40
This is a large round silver and amber ring in an unusual Art Deco design. The real star is the amber stone which has many natural inclusions giving it a fish bowl effect.
Modernist banded agate pendant
Price: £45
This is an unusual pendant with three gradating banded agate stones, in silver
Shell and Diamante earrings and brooch, 1950s
Price: £25
This is a beautiful set of earrings and a brooch, made from cut shells mounted with diamantes and pink beads, earrings are for pierced ears.
Scottish agate necklace in different colours
Price: £25
This is a natural Scottish agate necklace with long batons of different types of agate, very unusual
Stunning Victorian filigree necklace with concealed mourning keepsake locket
Price: £75
This is an extremely rare necklace comprising silver filigree work overall - the pendant is in a cartouche shape with a glass locket on the reverse for a loved ones lock of hair. The necklace links are intermittent circular and diamond shaped filigree stations with a hook clasp. A very gorgeous piece!
Antqiue Scottish agate specimen brooch/pendant
Price: £50
This is a very good example of this type of brooch with a bale so can be worn as a pendant. The panels are carnelian, jasper etc.
Stunning Art Deco silver bead work necklace
Price: £75
This is a very striking necklace comprising detailed silver beadwork. It has 8 hanging central strands ending in triangular stations. Most likely English silver although it is unmarked. Tests as 925 silver.
Massive banded carnelian cuff bracelet
Price: £450
This is an absolute bobby dazzler of a bracelet comprising five large banded carnelian stones mounted on a sterling silver frame. The stones are very large and have the perfect almost geometric shapes in them. Marked 925.
French carved coral portrait ring c.1880
Price: £75
This is a very unusual ring set with a carved coral stone in the form of a lady or goddess. It is mounted in silver with marcasite stones on the shoulders. With full marks.
Pair of Modernist Taxco earrings, c1980
Price: £40
This is a striking pair of earrings in a modernist style design of thick squares. Marked 'Sterling 925' and 'TS-7A' indicating Taxco, the city of manufacture and the maker's registration mark, a system of identification first used in 1979.
Opera length strand of beautiful moss agate beads 1960s
Price: £75
This is an unusual long strand of beads in Scottish moss agate stones in both oblong and round shapes. These beads all have different moss agate patterns.
Elegant Modernist pendant 1970s
Price: £15
This is a delicate silver necklace with a pendant in a Modernist shape set with a tigers eye stone
Victorian silver mounted Scottish carnelian agate cloak pin circa 1880
Price: £95
This is a beautiful cloak pin from the 19th century comprising a banded carnelian agate cross mounted with an engraved silver anchor. The 'anchor cross' has been a symbol since biblical times. The anchor represents hope and steadfastness and the cross, Jesus. The two combined point to Christians' hope of salvation through Christ. Missionaries of the United Methodist Church wear the anchor cross as areminder that their work is 'anchored in faith, hope and love'. Perhps it was a priest's cloak that was intended to be fastened here but this cloak pin would be suitable for any type of garment whether sacred or secular.
Burmese jade sautoir necklace
Price: £35
This is a very unusual necklace comprising jade facetted roundel beads that end in two clusters. This necklace you tie around the neck in different ways depending on your outfit and mood. The beads are different types of celadon jade interspaced silver beads ending in two millegrajn silver beads.
Jakob Bengal Art Deco galalith and metal necklace
Price: £25
This is a striking example of Jacob Bengel jewellery in his signature galalith and white mettal. The penant is dark brown and black in a triangular shape.
Victorian guilloche enamel and marcasite ring
Price: £50
This is a lovely and delicate ring comprising a panel of blue guilloche enamel surrounded with marcasite stones
Fun job lot of 4 pieces of vintage jewellery
Price: £20
This is a great lot comprising four pieces of vintage jewellery. #1 is a French celluloid bangle in pink with a very detailed floral motif. This bangle is quite large and will fit most wrists which is rather unusual for this type of bangle. It is hand painted and in lovely condition. #2 is a necklace comprising three ceramic replica scarabs. This has some age and is sort of 1950s. #3 is a very unusual pendant that is a miniature painting of an Italian pastoral scene. It also has be little stand at the back if you want use it as a decoration. #4 is a bracelet from the 1970s comprising many charms all centred around gardening. Many celluloid flowers, watering can, seed packet, beehive etc.
Art Deco Burmese dragon head necklace
Price: £55
This is a stunning large necklace comprising a large dragon head pendant in moulded brass with filigree work mounted with enamel so simulate stones. It comes on the original brass link necklace. This is a real show stopper!
Long Art Deco pinchbeck watch chain with two pendants
Price: £75
This is a gorgeous long watch chain in a very usual star box link. Attached to the chain is a banded carnelian locket and a rock crystal cross. These are removable and are not original to the chain although they are from the same period.
Lot of 3 Chinese bangles
Price: £25
This is nice lot of three bangles, one cloisonné and two cinnabar. The larger cinnabar bangle is beautifully detailed on black ground, the thinner cinnabar is more typical and has more age, the cloisonné is lovely work on a blue ground.
Taxco collar necklace set with obsidian, 1950s
Price: £125
This is a very striking necklace comprising stations of undulating heavy silver wave shaped links and obsidian round stations. It is marked 'Mexico' '925' and with a covered maker's mark where only a 'J' is visible. This may be Jorge Gomez or Justo Castillo since the work resembles their style.
Set of ring and earrings with obsidian mask motif, Mexico, 1950s
Price: £45
This is a very striking and recognizable motif of Aztec masks that feature often in Mexican design. These are carved obsidian set in silver. The earrings are screw back and marked 'Silver Mexico'. The ring is marked 'Sterling'.
Large Art Deco swirl Bakelite buckle
Price: £35
This is a very unusual and rare Bakelite buckle in the swirl marbled design. It is in a very Art Deco shape with typical carved lines. It is a very large size and comes with its original store tag from Harlem-Adler & Co. in New York.
Art Deco Whitby Jet Necklace
Price: £55
This is a beautiful necklace comprising a string of Whitby Jet beads in geometric shapes. The centre bead is a carved round bead, the surrounding beds are half rounds with flat round beads in between to give it that Art Deco look.
Very unusual Taxco figural ring, Taxco, c1980
Price: £45
This is an interesting ring designed as a naked figure crouching down. Seen from the back it has two eyes and a mouth on the opposite side. It is marked 'Mex 925' and 'TM-5' for Taxco.
Art Nouveau comb with coral fish and pearls
Price: £40
This is a beautiful piece of Art Nouveau, a celluloid hair comb with an inset carving of a koi fish in coral and seed pearls. It is carved with swirls and incised with very fine designs.
Chinese cloisonne bangle with raised enamel decoration circa 1900
Price: £40
Chinese cloisonne bangle, the exterior with raised enamel decoration of stylised scrolling foliage set on a speckled gilt ground between two bands of stylised floral sprays and clouds on a brick red ground, the interior finished in blue enamel; gilt rims to the top and bottom. The style of decoration suggests a circa date in the early twentieth century.
Tigers Eye long necklace 1970s
Price: £50
This is a necklace comprising large round and octahedron shaped beads, with matching clasp
Art Deco Long Mille Fiore bead necklace
Price: £60
This is a stunning necklace featuring 8 oblong flat Mille Fiore glass beads connected by multiple strands of glass seed beads in white and blue. This necklace is perfectly constructed and is in wonderful condition.
Czech Egyptian Revival Necklace with glass mounts and drops, Edwardian circa 1910
Price: £120
A Czech Egyptian Revival Necklace, cast in brass with a typical design of a pharaoh’s head and two stylised beetles all on a plaque in the shape of a butterfly and inset with red and blue glass beads, three glass bead drops to the bottom and a single large blue glass oval bead at the top from which hangs a thin brass link chain with a small clasp. The style of decoration indicates that this piece belongs to the ‘first wave’ of Egyptian Revival pieces and dates to the Edwardian era.
Long Murano Glass Necklace 1970s
Price: £30
This is a very striking long necklace comprising a geometric design with different shaped Murano glass beads and metal links.
Two American Polychrome Enamel Bracelets decorated with Kabuki Masks, 1980s
Price: £20
Two American polychrome enamel bracelets decorated with Kabuki masks on contrasting blue and red enamel grounds, each with spring loaded hinges, 1980s
Japanese Art Deco silver gilt brooch
Price: £50
This is a beautiful brooch comprising numerous flowers and stems set on a filigree background. With Niello work that creates more depth and detail. Is silver drenched in gold vermeil ,
Scottish silver ring inset with a Chalcedony stone, 1950s
Price: £40
A Scottish silver ring with a thistle design, inset with a Chalcedony stone, marked ‘silver’ to the interior, 1950s.
Italian silver Cuff Bangle with chainmail decoration, modern
Price: £30
An Italian silver cuff bangle, heavily cast with a chain mail design, the interior marked 925, modern
Chinese Silver Bangle with Dragon Heads, C20th
Price: £30
A Chinese silver bangle of simple loop form terminating in two Dragon’s heads. One head with a small circular pad marked 925, Twentieth Century.
Balinese Silver Bangle with Elephant Heads, 1980s
Price: £30
Balinese Silver Bangle with a typical rope twist design terminating in two elephant heads with raised trunks. One terminal with a small circular pad marked 925 (the nine is very feint and can only be seen with a loop). Style and form of decoration suggest a circa date in the 1980s.
Art Deco Chinese Export silver Buckle later converted to a Necklace
Price: £100
This is a beautiful necklace comprising a very detailed silver buckle that depicts a sinuous dragon encricling the characters for "Blessing", It has been converted to a necklace using a period belcher chain. Full import marks to the reverse and marked Silver.
Victorian Indian paste pendant
Price: £100
This is a very large pendant that was made in India for European taste. It comprises numerous paste stones surrounding a very large paste pear shaped stone, set in brass. The design is typical of the Victorian era with scroll work and fleur-de-lis. With rock crystal bead drops, the chain not included.
Pair of Victorian marcasite and silver earrings
Price: £50
This is a very striking pair of earrings comprising numerous small stones mounted in low grade silver, termed marcasite jewellery, Both pieces are marked for silver and the floral and leaf design is very typical of the Victorian era when pieces in this style enjoyed great popularity and were favoured even by the monarch herself. Marcasite Jewellery is actually made from pyrite ('fool's gold'), a much cheaper substitute for true diamonds!
Heavy brass and enamel collar necklace in the manner of Albert Gustav Bunge (1893 - 1967)
Price: £60
This is a very unusual and striking necklace comprising two pieces that make up as a collar with three heavy brass drops. Each drop has very unusual enamel work that is quite thick and has a piece of agate in the centre.
The style is very similar to the designs of Albert Gustav Bunge (1893 - 1967). He was a German metalworker and enamel artist best known for his elegantly crafted bracelets, plates, cups, book ends, and other household objects. Bunge combined utilitarian properties of design with decorative depictions of colourful, geometric shapes and stylized animals.
The piece is unmarked and therefore a firm attribution is not possible but the parallels are striking nevertheless.
Two complementary Bracelets in a Greek Key design
Price: £20
This is an interesting lot of two bracelets that match one another well. They are both finely made and are decorated in the typically stylish Greek Key design. Continental and marked 925. The ‘Greek key’, also known as the ‘meander’, is a repeating geometric motif that has been used in a wide variety of decorative contexts for centuries. The pattern can be found in a variety of forms. At its most basic, it is a band consisting of short horizontal and vertical lines, connected at right angles. But it can be more complex, forming labyrinths and interlocking key patterns.
Edwardian Scottish agate panel bracelet
Price: £50
This is a lovely and delicate bracelet comprising both carnelian and banded agate plaques, mounted in brass with an integrated clasp.
Very unusual banded carnelian panel bracelet
Price: £30
This is a very striking bracelet comprising six large banded carnelian panels interspersed with carnelian beads on typical stretch elastic. This is especially beautiful because the stones have natural inclusions. The origin of this bracelet is not clear. Could be Scottish or possibly Chinese.
1940s Dutch coin braclet
Price: £15
This is a fun bracelet comprising 9 10 cent coins all bearing the Queen Wilhelmina and dated between 1937 and 1941. The coins are silver and the 1941 coins were the last silver 10 cent coins that were produced. Post 1941 the Germans produced Zinc versions. The findings on this bracelet do not appear to be sliver but silvered metal. Has a hook fastening and good security chain.
Scottish Agate bar brooch
Price: £25
This is a very simple and elegant brooch comprising on stone of the typical black and white banded agate.
Exceptional strand of Scottish Moss agate beads
Price: £35
This is a lovely example of these Art Deco beads as they have very clear stones where the inclusions are bright and noticeable. They are graduated with a silver clasp.
Cherry amber Bakelite necklace 1920s
Price: £150
This is a very beautiful necklace comprising bright and clear amber Bakelite beads. These necklaces are quite rare and the clear red colour is one of the most collectible.
Detailed miniature porcelain plaque
Price: £10
This is small oval plaque that is painted with a very detailed pastoral scene of a young boy with a goat. It would have been mounted in a pendant or locket at one time. There appears to be some sort of mark on the reverse.
Necklace with FA cup pendant
Price: £75
This is a very unusual necklace that has a large silver pendant in the form of what appears to be the FA cup, or the The Football Association Challenge Cup which is a big thing in Britain. It is very finely made with full English hallmarks.
Exceptional Paste necklace 1940s
Price: £15
This a very delicate and bright paste necklace with seven floral stations interspersed with single stones. Set in brass with barrel clasp.
Art Deco chalcedony brooch or pendant
Price: £35
This is a lovely and delicate brooch with bail for a pendant. It is set in silver that has a modern floral design is both polished and textured giving it a very fine and detailed look. The stone is a Scottish chalcedony stone. Marked 925
Art Deco Scottish moss agate ring
Price: £75
This is a very striking ring that is mounted with a very unusual Scottish agate stone that has both red and green inclusions. Mounted in an architectural Art Deco setting. Marked 925
Art Deco Scottish bloodstone brooch
Price: £15
This a petite brooch comprising one piece of work bloodstone.
Gilt brass and glass stone bangle bracelet 1930s
Price: £20
This is a stunning costume bracelet comprising an ornately designed central raised part that has been attached to a simple brass bracelet It has the original green glass stones and is in immaculate condition. Probably French or Austrian.
Victorian Grand Tour Wedding Cake glass necklace
Price: £150
These glass beads are very unusual due to their age and condition. It is a perfectly graduated set of 25 beads with original brass findings. These beads are gold in colour decorated with detailed floral and scroll work. The stations are interspersed with amber glass spacer beads.
Intricate Czech glass necklace 1930s
Price: £30
This is a beautiful necklace comprising an indicate multi layered design set with purple and lavender stones. The metal work is in the typical filigree design and it is silver tone.
Stunning demi parure by Hobe 1950s, necklace and bracelet
Price: £350
This is a beautiful set of necklace and earrings be Hobe, one of the most collected makers around. It comprised a large statement necklace with three strands of large glass bead stations in amber and black glass with gold tone fittings. One of the most striking parts of both the necklace and bracelet is the corresponding clasp on each that is a large black stone surrounded by the amber glass stones that perfectly complement the piece. This also means that it can be work with hair up or hair that is in a shorter style. The bracelet has the same elements as the necklace. Both are marked Hobe. It is worth noting that these are in pristine condition which makes them all the more rare. All the findings are original.
Hobé et Cie was founded by Jacques Hobé in France in 1887. While he was trained as a master goldsmith, his business focused primarily on finely crafted sterling silver jewelry. William Hobé, his son, moved to the United States around 1920 bringing his family's acuity for producing high quality jewelry with him. (Credit: Google)
Victorian Silver Buckle set with Paste Stones, German circa 1900
Price: £90
This is a striking silver buckle of rectangular form with two bands of brilliant paste stones surrounding four stylised flower head paste stone clusters, the reverse plain and marked 900 which implies manufacture in Germany where the standard for silver was a minimum of 800 parts to 1000 with 900 parts to 1000 as one of the alternatives (as opposed to the more usually found 925). There is in addition a double mark with a star and a wheel which may well be the maker's mark, but this is hard to identify.
The sparkling stones and high quality mounting (there is a considerable weight of silver in this piece) would have made this buckle a striking addition to the Victorian ladies' wardrobe and it could equally well catch the eye today.
Gilt metal and Glass Bead Necklace by Louis Rousselet, French 1920s
Price: £70
Louis Rousselet was born in 1892 and apprenticed to M.Rousseau at the age of eight, where he learnt the techniques of lampwork beads. He set up a shop in Paris in 1922 and began the manufacture of glass beads and jewellery being joined by his daughter in the 1940s. Rousselet Jewellery became well known and production continued until 1975 when the last trained craftsman retired. Rousselet died in 1980.
This necklace comprises three delicately modelled gilt metal stylised flower heads with yellow glass beads at the centre, joined on either side by further glass beads and flower heads and then a chain with fine metal and glass bead links.
Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise Bead Necklace with an Egyptian Style Pendant, 20th Century
Price: £50
This is an interesting necklace comprising lapis lazuli and turquoise beads with two gilt metal beads in addition, all separated by small blue beads and metal rings, with a gilt metal plaque at the end modelled to one side with a scarab and the other with hieroglyphs, in an 'Egyptian Revival' Style.
Silver Brooch in the form of a Butterfly, Taxco 1940s
Price: £50
A silver Brooch in the form of a Butterfly with modelled wings set with beads in metal and turquoise, the slender body terminating in two antennae. Marked Made in Mexico, Sterling with the maker's mark AE in a heart shape. There is also an Eagle mark which indicates the Taxco workshop but this is difficult to identify.
Large Scottish agate specimen brooch 1910
Price: £65
This is a unique large oval brooch set with a slice of agate with that has beautiful markings that really highlight the stone.
Victorian Chinese turquoise beads 1900
Price: £400
This is a Chinese graduated turquoise bead necklace. The stones are untreated and natural colours and markings really make this a stunning example. It is very finely graduated so they imperceptibly decrease in size which adds to the elegance and quality.
Outstanding swirl Bakelite necklace with faux cameo, 1920s
Price: £45
This is a very rare necklace comprising matched brown swirl Bakelite stations and a central pendant mounted with a celluloid cameo of a neo classical style helmeted warrior, possibly Paris, all combined with stations of French jet glass beads.
Long Art Deco carnelian, bloodstone and goldstone necklace 1930s
Price: £150
Wow where to start with this necklace. It is a very long opera length that is constructed with numerous stations using brass findings and glass bugle beads. The stations are carved carnelian panels and beads with bloodstone panels that have been mounted with goldstone to create duplets that can be worn on either side. It ends in a large pendant that is bloodstone and goldstone with carnelian drops. The stones are definitely of Scottish origin so the necklace is either Scottish or English.
Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material. It was first made in the 17th century in Italy. (Credit: Wikipedia)
Large Cinnabar and filigree silver brooch, 1930s
Price: £55
This is a large carved cinnabar lacquer brooch that was very typical of the 1930s. The carefully detailed plaque, modelled with peony blooms, is mounted in silver with a filigree work border.
Pair of Edwardian Chinese silver brooches, c. 1910
Price: £45
This is a lovely and delicate pair of brooches comprising Chinese filigree work in the form of a fan. The both have a floral motif.
Victorian silver bracelet set with garnets 1900
Price: £25
This is a lovely and delicate bracelet comprising intricate silver mesh set with garnet stones and silver spheres. The clasp is a buckle that is very typical of this period.
Mexican silver bracelet set with turquoise plaques, c1990
Price: £65
This is a very striking hinge bangle bracelet set with turquoise (perhaps sodalite) plaques. It has an integrated clasp where you press down on the lower part to release. It is marked 'Mexico 925'.
Egyptian Revival scarab ring, 1930s
Price: £40
This is a wonderful and unusual ring in the form of a scarab with filigree work on the shoulders. Bears marks that are illegible but most likely this is Egyptian silver.
Art Deco continental black spinel and marcasite ring, 1920s
Price: £75
This is a beautiful ring comprising a rectangular slice of black spinel surrounded by architectural silver work and marcasite stones. Marked 925 Silver
Chinese cord bracelet with jade stones carved as fish
Price: £15
This is a modern bracelet comprising six carved fish beads interspersed with round beads. it is on a typical adjustable cord.
Tibetan turquoise and silver necklace 1930s
Price: £40
This is a a very unusual necklace comprising numerous small discs of turquoise that graduate down to a minute size. They are interspersed with silver and onyx discs. The metal is silver however probably a lower grade or 800 silver. It is quite small for all you swans, but could easily work with an extender.
American 1980s statement necklace with intaglio pendants
Price: £55
This is a very striking and large statement necklace comprising a chunky choker with 5 faux intaglio pendants. All are mounted in an antique gold tone setting. The maker is unknown but could have been a 'runway' piece, few of which are marked.
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Art Deco Czech glass necklace with enamel and glass stones, 1930s
Price: £35
This is a stunning statement necklace that is typical of Czech glass jewellery. It is inset with stones to emulate aquamarine. It also has unusual enamel work set on an architectural design that is quintessentially Art Deco. It is brass that would have been more gold in colour in its time.