Vintage jewelry has a huge following of collectors and regular people who like to attend auctions to see what they can scoop up. Vintage jewelry is not necessarily antique jewelry although the two are used interchangeably at times or the term antique vintage jewelry is used.
Art deco refers to a period in art history where design was of paramount importance. There are quite a lot of areas covered her from interior decoration to car design. Art deco applied to all sorts of things including furniture, lighting, scent flacons, electrical appliances, cinema posters, and of course jewelry that ultimately did not look at all like the jewelry creations dripping with diamonds that were sold by French Jewelers. Art deco jewelry was made by very few artists who in their workshops created pendants, bangles and rings without restraint or conformity to the standards of the time.
Vintage silver jewelry from this period used cool materials like rock crystal that was transparently clear or given a matte finish. Light blue aquamarines adorned the vintage wedding jewelry of the time along with deep blue sapphires and sometimes amber colored topazes and citrines. Platinum and even stainless steel were used in various combinations to produce some of the most prolific vintage bridal jewelry of the time. They were striking but at the same time reticent and quite well coordinated. Materialistic ostentation was deprecated in the pure art deco scheme of things by jewelry makers such as Raymond Templier and Jean Foquet.
There was also a lot of vintage costume jewelry designed while precious jewelry was being made. For collectors who are looking for cheap vintage jewelry might look into the costume jewelry from the period they are interested in. After 1956 many designers started buying copyrights for their jewelry. Vintage rings from the Victorian period were made in pink and/or yellow gold. There weren’t too many diamonds mined during this period so most center stones in Victorian rings were used less precious gems surrounded by smaller diamonds. The Victorian period was the period in which Queen Victoria ruled England from 1837 to 1901. The Georgian period came before this and the Edwardian period came after this with Art Deco following. These are the major periods where most people start looking for nice pieces of vintage jewelry with value whether precious or costume pieces like vintage rhinestone jewelry.
The most common vintage diamond jewelry and vintage bridal jewelry come from the Edwardian period which saw platinum becoming the metal of choice for rings and vintage jewelry bracelets owing to its strength. Vintage wedding jewelry in the form of round and rose cut diamonds in the center with diamonds the sides with very intricate and highly detailed work on the head and shoulders of the ring. You can find many versions of this style in jewelry stores today if you go to their estate jewelry sections. Hearts, flowers and leaves were the common motifs used on these platinum rings from the Edwardian period. Platinum although denser and somewhat harder than gold is nevertheless gummier in nature and easier to work with when creating intricate carvings into the jewelry pieces. Being stronger platinum holds up quite well even with pieces that have had a lot of metal removed.
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