Girls have collected and worn vintage jewellery for a large number of decades now, a vintage brooch, necklace or earrings makes a welcome and popular gift and is sure to be kept and admired for several years to come. But what about the gentlemen? There is a lot of vintage jewellery about for them too and with films like Holmes popularising vintage gents clothing like caps and waistcoats the males in your life would appreciate a piece of vintage jewellery too.
You could give your man a ring, earring or neck chain but here are a few pieces of vintage signifies jewellery you could not have thought of:
Stick pins, Ties pins or Lapel pins - three various name for the same piece of Jewelry more on a regular basis worn by males than ladies. These little pins seem highly quaint and old fashioned these days but they are also very collectible - I lately saw a show on television exactly where even tiny and humble examples had been valued at £100.
The stick pin is smaller and much less showy than a brooch but can be worn in significantly the identical manner on the lapel of a jacket or pinned via a tie to both decorate it and preserve it in location. What differentiates it from a brooch is the way it is made and held in location. The stick pin has the decorative element at the leading of a lengthy stick rather than having a pin behind it. This allows the decorative detail to be pretty little if necessary. These were worn by Victorian and Edwardian Gentleman and Ladies even so these days they are even more noticed as Jewelry for Gentlemen.
The important to desirability of a stick pin is a combination of the supplies applied ( gold and diamonds being even more expensive than silver and crystal for example) and also the topic of the stick pin. A silver and crystal stick pin in the shape on a monkey would possibly be significantly more expensive than an oval shape with a tiny diamond in the centre.
Most antique stick pins have a spiral groove around the pin which was utilised to screw on a "keeper" which acted to prevent the stick pin from coming loose. This is one indicator in telling if your stick pin is antique or significantly more modern day as modern copies do not tend to have this groove. You can see an example of this groove in the third photo below of the opal stick pin.
Watch chains
A watch chain is usually known as an Albert soon after Queen Victorias husband Prince Albert who initially popularised the wearing of these chains. There are two kinds of Albert watch chains single and double. A single Albert watch chain would have a T bar at 1 end and a dog clip at the other. A double Albert watch chain has a central T bar with two chains hanging from it, every single chain having a dog clip at every finish. Look out for chains exactly where the links are graduated getting bigger at the centre than at the ends also appear out for the lion hallmark being stamped on every link.
Your watch chain will in most cases have a particularly short chain hanging from the T bar, this will just measure an inch or two. You can attach a fob from this chain to complete the Albert.
Fobs
As mentioned above, fobs hung from watch chains but they can also be worn on a neck chain or attached to a crucial ring. You can come across fobs produced of silver or gold. Some are in the form of sporting medals becoming engraved to the winner of a cricket, swimming or perhaps a music or poetry competition. Desirable fobs are enameled in multi colours. Others are set with difficult stones including bloodstone or carnelian
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