Buying Men`s Vintage Jewellery

Ladies have been buying and collecting vintage jewellery for countless generations now, an old time brooch, pendant necklace or perhaps earrings makes a welcome and sought after gift and is likely to be kept and favored for ages to come. But why not consider the guys? There certainly is plenty of antique jewelery around for them also and with films just like Holmes popularising vintage gentlemen`s clothing such as hats together with waistcoats. The gentlemen in your life would probably admire a piece of antique men`s jewelry as well.

You may give your man a ring, hip flask, vintage cufflinks or just neck chain still here are a few bits of vintage jewellery you probably will not have looked into:

Stick pins, Ties pins or perhaps Lapel pins - about three completely different labels for the identical piece of Jewelry more frequently used by guys when compared with women. These kind of small pins look very unusual and even old fashioned in these modern times but they also are also very collectible items. I recently found a show on television where even modest and even plain and simple examples were valued at £100. The stick pin is more compact as well as less flashy than a brooch but often is worn in similar way on the lapel of a sweater or perhaps pinned through a tie to both enhance it and ensure that it stays in position. Exactly what separates it from a brooch is the way it happens to be made and kept in position. The stick pin has the decorative component at the top of a long pin rather than having a pin behind it. This allows the ornamental element to be very compact if required. Most of these were used by Victorian and also Edwardian Gentleman and Ladies however these days these are more considered Jewelry for Men. The key to appeal of a stick pin is a combination of the materials used (gold together with diamonds being more expensive as compared to silver together with crystal as an example) as well as the subject of the stick pin. A silver and crystal stick pin in the form on a monkey might be more costly than an oval shape with a tiny diamond in the center. The majority of antique stick pins possess a spiral groove around the pin that is employed to screw on a "keeper" which acts to avoid the stick pin from coming loose. This is one indication in telling if your stick pin is retro or maybe more modern day as new copies usually do not tend to possess this groove. You will notice an illustration of this this groove in the other photo below of the opal stick pin.

Watch chains

A watch chain is generally called an Albert after Queen Victoria`s partner Prince Albert who first popularised the sporting of these chains. The two main types of Albert watch chains single and also double. A single Albert watch chain would have a T bar at one end as well as a dog clip at the other. A double Albert watch chain has a central T bar with a pair of chains suspending from this, each one chain possessing a dog clip at each end. Watch out for chains in which the links are graduated being much larger at the centre as compared to at the ends furthermore watch out for the lion hallmark being marked on each link.Your watch chain in most cases make use of a short chain suspended from the T bar, this will just measure an inch or two. You can actually connect a fob with this chain to finish the Albert.

Fobs

As mentioned above, fobs draped from watch chains however they may also be worn on a neck chain or maybe attached to a key ring. You will find fobs made of silver or gold. A few will be in the form of sporting medals being etched to the winner of a cricket, swimming or possibly a music or poetry competition. Favorable fobs are enameled in variable colours. while others are set with hard gemstones including bloodstone or even carnelian.