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VICTORIAN & GEORGIAN JEWELRY
  Georgian Jewelry
  Portrait jewelry
  Victorian agate jewelry
  Victorian hair jewelry
  Victorian jet jewelry
  Victorian jet vulcanite earrings
  Victorian jewelry
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  Victorian vulcanite jewelry

EDWARDIAN to Czech JEWELRY
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  Edwardian & Filigree

FINE & BRIDGE JEWELRY
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JEWELRY FAVORITES

Dealer's and Collectors Top Choices

Survey, December 2004

I am delighted with the insightful comments from so many dealers and collectors, and thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts. The surprise is that, almost without exception, there were few "name" designers mentioned in the this year's top sellers, and none of them made the top four list. What a shock! Who would have thought it a year ago? Yes, Haskell is still strong, and a few mentioned Trifari, Schreiner and a couple of others, but the only category mentioned by almost every single dealer and collector was... "UNSIGNED". Just when attributing each and every piece of unsigned jewelry to a well-known maker has become something of an obsession, it seems that collectors are less interested in "name" than in "look".

Molly Garza said it for a lot of us who both sell and collect. "Our best selling items are gorgeous unsigned....and I am aiding the economy by spending, too!" Said Myrna Seale, "In last year's contest, 'category' meant almost exclusively specific designers. But for me as a collector it isn't the designer, it's "type". Carol Bell. after naming some well-known makers that sold well for her, also said, "A surprise seller for me (since I sell mostly glitzy pieces) were pot metal pins with flower motif, enamel and a few rhinestones." And Jenny Wren said it the funniest, "For me, unsigned pins are smokin' like a fresh-fired Saturday night special!"

I heard it over and over... unsigned, unusual quality pieces won this year, hands down!

#1
Unsigned & Unusual

Reference: Jewel Chat
Gallery: Morning Glory Collects usual things
Morning Glory Collects unusual sets

PALE yellow unfoiled and clear rhinestones set in silver and gold tone brooch, 3-1/8". View #Y26172

ORNATE gold tone 17" by 1-1/2" necklace, 2" brooch and 1-1/4" earrings with mother-of-pearl, art glass cabs and purple and green rhinestones. View View View View View View #Y26348

SILVER and silver tone leaves and flowers pin with purple stone bug, 5". View View #Y26164

AQUA and lavender rhinestone butterfly brooch, 2-7/8". View View View #Y27418

BASKET brooch with molded glass flowers and clear rhinestones set in pot metal, 2-3/4". View View #Y23932

AQUA cabochons, clear rhinestones and gold tone acorns pin, 3". View #Y23552

GRAPES rose and blue cabochons and green rhinestones grapes brooch, 2-1/3". View #Y25911 GRAY opalescent cabochons, red rhinestones and cream set in gold tone 6-1/2" by 1-1/2" bracelet, 2" brooch and 1-1/2" earrings. View View View View View View #Y26025 ENAMEL on pot metal with multi-colored cabochons stylized flower brooch. #Y21295

To accent any outfit, this pin and earring set has large pink art glass cabochons surrounded by white, pale lavender, blue and yellow rhinestones. The pin is 2 inches by 2-3/4 inches. Each earring measures 1-1/4 inches high and 1 inch across.
Courtesy Carol Bell LADY with multi-colored head dress brooch.
Courtesy Carol Bell Beautiful seashell art glass trembler stones accent this lovely bracelet. Rhinestone rondells and garnet faceted stones are all hand wired. The bracelet is vermeil finished with a pressure push closure and measures 7x1". A most unusual bracelet and in excellent condition.
Courtesy of Molly Garza

BUTTERFLY, pink and aurora set in gold tone butterfly brooch, 2-1/2". View #Y27480

ROSE purple watermelon and purple, rose and pink rhinestones set in antiqued gold tone round 2-1/3" brooch with dangle 2" earrings. View #Y27455

RED and gray rhinestone and pink aurora borealis in japanned setting brooch, 2-1/3". View #Y26927

#2
Victorian Jewelry

References: Victorian Jewelry, 1837-1901, click here
Gallery: Morning Glory Collects Victorian
Victorian hair jewelry
Victorian photographic jewelry
Victorian silver jewelry
Victorian jet & vulcanite jewelry

Victorian jewelry is now 100 to 170 years old and like most really great jewelry, it is getting harder to find truly wonderful pieces. Cathy Gordon says, "Two new areas for me this year--Deco, including some fabulous Fahrner pieces and Victorian--lover's eye, portrait brooches on ivory, garnets, even a Silesian wirework brooch". The appreciation for it has revived again this year, with collectors looking for engraved pieces, hand painted pieces and pieces using unusual materials. Buckle and snake motifs were mentioned, as were earrings.

VICTORIAN lady photo brooch with seed pearls, black enameling, scroll design, safety chain, 1-1/3". View View #V27581

VICTORIAN hand tinted little girl photo brooch with seed pearls set in sterling, 7/8". #V27599

VICTORIAN hair brooch, ornate silver setting with pastes, hair curls, 1-1/2". View #V27578

VICTORIAN yellow gold portrait pierced earrings, pendant portion 1-1/3". View View #V27338

ELGIN 14k lady's pendant 1-1/4" watch with 1-1/2" watch holder brooch. Watch is #15386609, circa 1910. View View #w25029

VICTORIAN hair set in etched and enameled gold pierced earrings with three pendants, 1-3/4" top to bottom. View #V27335

VICTORIAN gold and enameled 1-7/8" hair brooch with "In Memory Of" encircling frame, engraved on back:
Ms Buchannan
died 12th Nov 1843
John Wilson died 4th June 1843
Engraving
(Seen in Christie Romero's "Warman's Jewelry, 3rd Ed, page 35.) #V9521

VICTORIAN hair locket brooch with etched flowers and embossed scrolls, engraved on back "FHN". View View #V27368

VICTORIAN 18k hair brooch/pendant, oval with braided hair in two blonde colors, hair back, 2" wide. View #V18982

VICTORIAN vulcanite butterfly pin, 2". See page 121 of Helen Muller's book "Jet". View #V25282

VICTORIAN jet pendant with painted porcelain lady portrait, 2". View #V25926

VICTORIAN vulcanite hand holding key and rose pin, 2-7/8" . See page 127 of Helen Muller's book "Jet". View #V25281

VICTORIAN eye brooch. Called "Lover's Eye" jewelry, this brooch is a wonderful hand painted on ivory of a woman's eye set in gold with pearls, dated 1845.
Courtesy of Cathy Gordon

VICTORIAN cut steel set circa 1860, the necklace is 18" by 1-1/3", the bracelet 7" by 1-1/3", early to mid-1800's. Polished steel faceted studs were riveted to a steel backing to fashion this type of jewelry. View View View View #V25841

SILESIA wire work brooch in the shaper of a bunch of grapes. Origins of this are still unknown (see Warman's page 30) though conjectured to come from Silesia. The woven wire mesh is machine-made and Christie Romero circa dates this pin to 1840.
Courtesy of Cathy Gordon

#3
The 1920s and 1930s
Czech, Deco, Filigree & Sash Pins

Reference:
Gallery: Morning Glory Collects filigree
deco, nouveau, arts & crafts

Continuing the interest in older jewelry, the era of the 1920s and 1930s has a very strong following and received many votes from both dealers and collectors. Whether it is Deco, Czech, or filigree, strong unusual pieces fly off the web sites. Sash brooches with Art Nouveau or bizarre motifs won some fans, and Retro was also mentioned by several as a new interest this year.

Signed Czech oval pin with dark red enamel around the edge, green enamel leaves, and rhinestones. The background looks like basket-weave.
Courtesy Carol Bell

FAHRNER Deco necklace and bracelet with rectangular faceted stones in blues and greens, marcasites, all set in sterling, circa 1920, signed Germany.
Courtesy of Cathy Gordon

GERMAN Deco bracelet--possibly German. Sterling, enamel, marcasites, and green glass stones, some tiny hallmarks.
Courtesy of Cathy Gordon

CZECH CzechoSlovakia multi-colored enameled and rhinestone 3-1/3" pendant 22" chain. View #Q25337

DECO embossed sterling and carnelian-colored glass "O's" bracelet, 8" long and each "O" is 1". View #Q24797

CELLULOID hand painted and set with blue rhinestones 2-1/2" by 3-1/4" pendant on a blue grosgrain 32" ribbon. View View #Q24870

RHINESTONE "CheckoSlovak" marked frosted glass and clear rhinestones 3-1/4" brooch. View Mark #Y24802

DECO clear rhinestones set in silver tone buckle motif 14" necklace and 7" bracelet. View View View #Q26764

RING Deco marcasite and green glass ring, size 5. View View #G22080

FILIGREE silver tone filigree hinged bangle with deep aqua center rhinestone and black and yellow enameling, 7-1/4" by 5/8". View #Q24438

FILIGREE silver tone filigree 1-1/2" pendant with lavender rhinestone on 24" chain . View #Q24437

FILIGREE silver tone heavily filigreed hinged bangle with melon molded cranberry center stone, clear rhinestones, 7" by 5/8" by 1/3". View View #Q25401

FILIGREE silver filigree, blue molded glass and clear rhinestones necklace, "patn 1257158", 2-1/2" pendant on 16" necklace. View #Q26356

STERLING and faux carnelian glass cabochon 16" necklace with a 2" front drop and hammered links in the Arts & Crafts style. View View View #Q14982

DECO crystal balls and clear rhinestones necklace. View View #Q26369

DRAGONFLY and poppy sash pin circa 1900. View #Q19163

SASH pin with unfoiled lavender and pale yellow rhinestones, 2-1/4". Maker's mark "CS" on the back. View View #i24436

SASH pin with a serpent curling around an amethyst-colored rhinestone. It is 3" wide and has the older style c-clasp. VIEW #i16557

#4
Purses & Accessories

Reference: New Bead Book, 1924
Purses, Reticules & Handbags
Gallery: Morning Glory Collects Purses
Morning Glory Collects Arts & Crafts Purses

Pam Brooks was one of many who said, "The biggest sleeper is non-jewelry. I'm still in shock!" It seems that many jewelry collectors and dealers are branching out into accessories in a big way... purses, chatelaines, and even old spectacles with the proper new lenses so that they can be used. Natural as it seems to pair accessories with jewelry, it is an area new to some jewelry fans. Accessories this year have taken off like a rocket.

JUSTIN Arts & Crafts leather purse with enameled frame and latch, tree motif, 5-1/4" by 7". View View View #P26804

AMITY Arts & Crafts leather purse with pussy willow motif, 6-1/2" by 6-3/4" , 12" handle. View View View #P26746

TIFFANY 1930-40's petit point evening bag, enameled and sterling metal filigree, frame floral still life motif, 5-3/4" by 8-1/3". View View View #P20978

BLACK petit point purse with colorful floral and leaf motif, 7" by 8". The silver floral and scroll embossed frame is intricate and lovely, with dolphin loops holding a 16" double chain handle. View View View View View #P26687

PETIT POINT purse 9 inches long and 7-1/2" wide across the frame. Beautiful garden motif with many flowers and wonderful colors, the chain handle is decorated with glass beads. View View View View View View #P20987

UNGER sterling lady face lorgnette, circa 1900, 4-3/4" by 1-1/2". (Seen in Christie Romero's "Warman's Jewelry, 3rd Ed, page 112.) View View #V14745

LORGNETTE tortoise ornate pierced 6" lorgnette with inlaid metal dots, edge break on one end of glasses portion. View View View #V23679

CHATELAINE the mirror is hallmarked Birmingham 1904-05, maker's mark C&N; the pencil holder is marked Chester 1902-3; the match safe is engraved with the initials "HHA"; the envelope-shaped stamp holder is hallmarked Birmingham 1977. The length from top to bottom is 9". View View View View #V20954

Haskell
Schreiner
Trifari
Swarovski
Corocraft sterling vermeil
McClelland Barclay
Regency

Honorable Mention

European jewelry
Contemporary jewelry
Clampers & hinged bangles
Wood jewelry
Figurals
Beads

Many many thanks to all the dealers and collectors who contributed to this years survey!