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 a Nielloware?

The term Niello is used to refer to a method of decorating metal objects, using engraving techniques. In this technique silver, copper, sulphur or lead are rubbed into an indented pattern and then fired. When the object is polished, darkened areas remain for a decorative effect. This technique is often used in Siam Sterling Jewelry and there is a whole collecting area of vintage jewelry referred to as Siam Sterling Nielloware.

Siam sterling Nielloware pieces are marked in a variety of ways. Markings include: Made in Siam, Siam Sterling Silver, or Siam Sterling 925. The engravings are normally directly in the metal instead of on cartouches. Some Nielloware jewelry is also marked Made in Thailand. The name of the country can't be used to definitively date the piece. Even though Siam was the name of Thailand prior to 1939, the markings for Siam jewelry continued to be used for many more years. See more information here.

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Vintage Costume Jewelry "Designer of the week"

Who is Van Dell?

The Van Dell Corporation was founded in in 1938 in Providence Rhode Island. The company manufactured well made sterling silver, gold filled and gold plated jewelry. Many of their designs used cultured pearls and interesting rhinestones and other stones such as Austrian Crystals and included genuine hand carved cameos in their range. The jewelry was of high quality and was meant to resemble fine jewelry. Some of their early pieces sold for $65 or more in the 1960s, which was quite expensive for the time.

Value of the pieces today - Although not considered one of the high end collectible designers, Van Dell does have a following and the pieces can be somewhat hard to find, and not inexpensive. Look for matched sets when you can get them, and if possible in original boxes. Click here for a detailed resource article on the company.

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