A Brief Look at Designers and Companies We Love at Bethidee's Collectible Vintage Costume Jewelry From Art and Boucher to Vendome and Weiss: A Guide To Timelines and Styles Brought To You By Bethidee- Click...
If you collect vintage and antique silver or gold charms and charm bracelets, you'll find a wealth of choices on eBay--it's a charm collector's dream. But as more and more people fall under the spell of...
Whether you call them puffy hearts, puffed hearts, répoussé hearts, whether they're antique or vintage, sterling silver or gold filled, charm bracelets filled with old heart charms are tremendously popular...
It is a common mis-perception that the term guilloché refers to a TYPE of enamelling when the term actually refers to a PROCESS. Guilloché, phonetically pronounced gee-oh-SHAY , is from the French word meaning...
If you collect vintage gold or silver charms or charm bracelets, you're bound to have questions about practical matters like selecting a bracelet, attaching your charms, cleaning and care, and so on. Here are...
This is Part II of a two-part guide; to read the first part, click here: Part I . If you collect vintage gold or silver charms or charm bracelets, you're bound to have questions about practical matters like...
Floating opal are a gorgeous piece of vintage jewelry and can give you many years of wear IF you buy a true vintage piece. They are opal chips or chunks, encased in a blown glass globe topped off with a gold...
If you are a novice at buying vintage jewelry, especially on EBAY, you will probably find many of the descriptions a bit confusing due to the terminology used to describe the pieces. Sometimes, you might start...
Thank you for taking the time to read my guide on antique jeweled filigree vanity items. Almost all of them I have been able to purchase on eBay, as well as antique shops and flea markets. I have collected...
What is Art Deco?Art Deco is known as a style or era relating to the years 1920-1935 . Of course, it didn't start on January 1, 1920 and end at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1935, but the years...