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Victorian Sentimentality: Teeth in Jewelry

Sentimental jewelry is unlike any other; where gemstones and expensive metals usually denote value, the true worth of sentimental jewelry...

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Hallmarks: An Antique Jewelry Beginner's Guide

Getting to know hallmarks can seem like an intimidating task. What with assay office marks, maker's marks, time stamps, and different sym...

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Signet Rings: A Journey Through Jewelry History

Signet rings come from an ancient tradition. There is evidence that signet rings have existed from as early as 1400 BC, and have been wor...

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Up, Up, and Away! Balloons in Antique Jewelry

It seems that people have always had a fascination with conquering the heavens. Long before the world of space travel, airports and airbu...

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Where Art Meets Jewels: The Jewelry of Portraiture

It goes without saying that jewelry can be, and often has been a powerful status symbol throughout history. Indeed, so have portraits. Oi...

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The Chatelaine: History’s Forgotten Accessory

Inspired by some new chatelaines that AAJ has sourced this week, today’s Wednesday blog will be all about chatelaines: the long-lost acce...

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Antique Jewelry Boxes

A lost art.. Every Jewelry collector knows that there is nothing better than finding a Georgian or Victorian piece of Jewelry in it's ori...

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