Your Guide to Jewelry Eras From the 1700s to the 1980s
Through the years, jewelry styles change, influenced by fashion, societal trends, micro- and macro-economic and technological innovations.
Victorian Jewelry
Etruscan Revival Jewelry: Sophisticated Style
Jewelry designers are inspired to create by what happens in the world around them and during the 1800s archeological finds were a huge influence.
Buckle Jewelry: A Victorian Love Token
People of the Victorian era adhered to a rigid set of rules that dictated behavior.
Symbolism in Victorian Jewelry
The Victorians were known as a staid bunch, living by a strict set of social rules they were not particularly prone to expressing their feelings.
Moonstone: Gem of the Goddesses
Etheric and magical moonstone captures our imagination with its shifting light and connection to the moon.
Peridot: The Other Green Stone
What gemstone is buried deep in the earth’s mantle, falls to earth from meteorites and flows from lava in volcanoes? The answer is peridot, the luscious bright green gem that has a history dating back to the ancient Egyptians and was a favored gemstone for jewelry during the Victorian and Edwardian era
Tempting Topaz
Topaz, in its myriad colors, has been in and out of fashion since the days of the ancient Egyptians, who believed that it got its yellow color from the sun God Ra.
5 Vintage Jewelry Terms to Know
Jewelry has a special language all its own that describes pieces either by technique or function.
Victorian Jewelry: The Grand Years
Prince Albert dies, diamonds are discovered in South Africa, silver discovered in Nevada, archeological excavations, women enter the workforce in droves, suffragette movement begins, Suez Canal opens, opal discovered in Australia and Japonism were some of the events that defined the Grand Years.
Victorian Jewelry: The Romantic Years
Queen Victoria Ascends the Throne, Queen Victoria Marries Prince Albert, Industrial Revolution Grows, Rising Middle Class, Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens defined the Romantic Years.