Jewellery made to symbolise or commemorate a person or event rather than simply to adorn is of historical interest and is often comparatively cheap.
Most early jewellery - and many pieces produced right up to the 20th century — served more than merely decorative purposes, embodying some theme, device or message in its design. Such jewellery [...]
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Enamel application
There are two methods for applying enamel to metal — dusting (which is unsuitable for small items of jewellery) and wet-laying. For wet-laying, put a little enamel powder into a clean ceramic dish and mix it with distilled water by degree. Apply the resulting mixture thinly and evenly over small areas of the metal [...]
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Enamel is a form of glass and enamelling is the process of fusing it to metal with heat. The earliest known example of enamelled jewellery is a set of Mycenaean beads which date back to 1450BC. Constructed using the champleve method, they are made from blue enamel fused to decorative gold beads. During the 3rd [...]
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Where to buy.Many people prefer old jewellery to new. They find old pieces charming, elegant or pretty, and for many people such jewellery satisfies a nostalgia for the past. People read in the press that antique jewellery is a good investment, and certainly some pieces made during the last two centuries have greatly appreciated in [...]
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