Vintage Jewelry Lane

A hint of nostalgia, a touch of class. Vintage Jewelry Lane brings you designs from the past!

On Vintage Jewelry Lane you will find a huge variety of vintage costume jewelry including Designer signed, sterling silver, and vintage plastic jewelry. We also have a wide range of Damascene jewelry, cameo jewelry, pearl jewelry, and much more!

Vintage Jewelry lane offers vintage and antique costume jewelry from designers such as Art, Austria, Avon, Beau Ster, Coro, Eisenburg, Emmons, and Germany. You will also find lovely vintage jewelry pieces by Hobe', Hong Kong, Kramer, Lisner, Sarah Coventry, Trifari, Vendome, Weiss, and many others.

At Vintage Jewelry Lane, we also offer jewelry from notable contemporary costume jewelry designers such as Anne Klein, Delta Burke, Givenchy, Joan Rivers, Richelieu, Tanya's Creations and others.

Vintage Jewelry Lane has a huge collection of unsigned vintage costume jewelry beauties. You will find vintage bracelets, brooches, earrings, necklaces, rings, demi parures and other sets. Our range of miscellaneous vintage costume jewelry includes belts, belt buckles, button covers, glove clips, hair jewelry, scarf clips, shoe clips, stick pins and sweater guards. For the man in your life, be sure to browse our men's vintage costume jewelry pages for cufflinks, tie bars and other men's vintage jewelry.

The vintage costume jewelry rhinestone collection on Vintage Jewelry Lane is enormous, and features some spectacular pieces, and we also have a wide range of cameo jewelry, copper jewelry, mosaic jewelry, including pietra dura jewelry, pearl and faux pearl vintage costume jewelry, wonderful beaded jewelry, bakelite and other plastic vintage costume jewelry such as lucite, thermoset, and celluloid vintage jewelry. Also included is a nice group of sterling silver and gold jewelry.

Take a peek at this week's featured vintage jewelry piece on Vintage Jewelry Lane:

Looking for themed vintage costume jewelry? Vintage Jewelry Lane has a large range of Christmas jewelry, including Christmas Tree brooches, figural jewelry with animals and other critters, religious jewelry and other popular themes. We even have a special page for just butterfly and bug vintage costume jewelry.

Our site specialties include Damascene Vintage Jewelry, including Amita Damascene vintage jewelry, Cameo Vintage Jewelry, Micro Mosaic Vintage Jewelry, including Italian Micro Mosaic vintage jewelry, Scandinavian Silver Jewelry, and vintage Christmas Tree Pins, including some lovely designer signed Vintage Christmas tree pins, along with a huge selection of Sarah Coventry vintage Jewelry. We have all types of Sarah Coventry Vintage Jewelry, including many matching demi parures and sets.

Don't forget to stop by our Vintage Jewelry Resource Library. I love to research and write about vintage Jewelry, and have an extensive library of informative articles about all sorts of topics relating to vintage jewelry.

For the thematic jewelry enthusiast, figural jewelry is often a good choice.

Vintage Designer Signed Jewelry (Partial List For complete list - click here to see the Designer catalogue page)

Unsigned Vintage Jewelry

Designer Signed Contemporary Jewelry

Vintage Costume Jewelry "Word of the week"

What is Hair Jewelry?

A special type of jewelry item used as a mourning accessory during this time was a brooch or other style of jewelry made from the hair of a deceased friend or loved one. These were hugely popular in Victorian times. These jewelry designs were very complex and also often incorporated other materials such as black jet, gold, precious stones and diamonds.

The use of hair in jewelry was fashionable during the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. It faded from popularity during the roaring 20s. Since human hair does not decay with the passing of times, it is still possible to get examples of Victorian hair jewelry in good condition. It is a highly collectible form of vintage jewelry. See more information and photographs here.

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Vintage Costume Jewelry "Designer of the Month"

Who is Monet?

The Monet company was started by Michael and Jay Chernow, brothers who decided to go into business together. They founded the company in Providence, Rhode Island under the name Monocraft and their first designs were monograms for fashionable handbags. Later, in 1937, they began the manufacture of jewelry and the name of the company was changed to Monet.

Monet was one of the leading suppliers of jewelry in the 1940s. They were the principle suppliers of the better department stores of the period. Their simple and classic designs, sometimes adorned with rhinestones or Austrian crystals, appealed to the working woman of the post war era. Click here for a detailed resource article on the company.

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