Jewelry Styles and Periods

Antique Jewelry Designs & Settings Authentic jewelry from antiquity is very rare and valuable.  Many of these jewels reside in museums and state collections.  If a quality antique piece does appear on the market, it demands high prices, especially if it features large gemstones or has an unusual history.   The history of jewelry design […]

Vintage Jewelry Designs & Settings With the dawn of a new millennium, some have begun to classify jewelry from the and periods as antique instead of vintage.  Two other well-known vintage styles are and . Vintage styles are highly collectable among connoisseurs, and fine pieces can command prices far in excess of the value of […]

Contemporary Jewelry Designs & Settings With the dawn of the 1950s, the world was entering a new era focused on much more rapidly changing fashion and trends, and a manufacturing sector that could keep up with the heightened demands of society.  People wanted to put the horrors of the recent two world wars behind them, […]