LES BERNARD - VINTAGE CLIP EARRINGS - GOLD TONE & TURQUOISE FACETED GLASS STONES

In my shop at Grays Antiques - in central London - the most popular items of vintage jewellery are earrings.  I stock a very wide range - pierced, studs, clips and screws - of every shape and style I can find!  I love the unsual, the smart, the quacky, the casual and the 'look at me'!  This pair of Les Bernard gold tone, clip earrings with turquoise faceted glass stones have to have been made somewhere between 1963 and 1996 - as those are the years he was making jewellery.  Full details are on my website - please see the link.  Price £65 ref: 2989 C50/19

Les Bernard clip earrings

SILVER ANTIQUE VICTORIAN BELT BUCKLE - LONDON 1898

This silver, antique, Victorian belt buckle is quite unusual in that it is in 3 parts, not 2.  It has a hinge between 2 of the parts.  It has a London Hallmark for 1898 but I cannot quite read the maker's mark - which includes a 'G' and 'Co'.  This would make a wonderful belt and would be very easy to do - see the back of the buckle.  Ref: 2988 BB Price £120

Silver Antique Victoria Belt Buckle

PAVONE - FISH BROOCH - BLACK & WHITE

When something is made today from galalith it is difficult to know whether to describe it as vintage jewellery - it really is a mixture!  Marie Christine Pavone makes jewellery from vintage galalith and I love it.  This pieces is a few years old I think - it is thinner than the pieces I see now.  As I am a |Pisces I would love to keep this - but I have put it in the shop.  Must resist the temptation.  Reference 2987 C49/51 Price £58

Pavone Fish Brooch

RICHARD HUDNUT - SMALL 'GEMEY 'ROUGE BOX

Richard Hudnut Gemey rouge potStill wading through the large collection of powder and rouge boxes that I bought recently.  This small one is from the 1930s and is a Richard Hudnut 'Gemey' rouge box.  It is not perfect - but is in surprisingly good condition for its age.  It still has all the bits!  The untouched rouge, the cellophane rouge cover, the puff and a publicity leaflet for Hudnut rouge and lipstick.  The graphics is always what interests me and I love the publicity material!  It is quite small - at 1 1/2 inches.  Full details on web site as usual.  Price £24 ref: 2986 B46/44

VINTAGE PROGRAMME GLASSES - FAUX TORTOISESHELL & AURORA BOREALIS GLASS STONES

My passion is for vintage and antique jewellery but it also includes so many other accessories!  Love these glasses - which are for reading such things as programmes and menus.  So much more stylish than ordinary reading glasses.  (No good for long distance.)  They are in a faux tortoiseshell and have aurora borealis glass stones.  As these were invented by Swarovski and had mostly gone out of favour but the mid 1960s - this dates the glass nicely for us!  They fold up quite small and fit into a pocket or handbag.  Full details, as usual, on my web site.  Ref: 2985 B12336 price £65/

Faux tortoiseshell programme glasses

LEA STEIN BROOCH - THE ICONIC RED FOX

This is the most famous of all Lea Stein designs - it is the fox brooch.  This one is in a shiny, textured red colour and it has black eyes.  It is a genuine Lea Stein and has the correct pin on the back marked Lea Stein Paris.  I usually have a good selection of Lea Stein brooches in my shop at Vintage Modes, Grays Antiques in central London.  A number of them will be on my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - but I never seem to manage to put them all on the web site - just too much work!  Price £65 ref: 2984 B121/16

Lea Stein Red Fox

GOYA - POWDER BOX - 1940S

It's back to powder boxes today - I just love them!  I learn so much just researching them.  This is by Goya and is cream on top and blue on side and back.  The colour is Rachel and the powder is unopened.  Full details as usual on my web site.  When researching I found a wonderful article by The Amersham Museum on Goya - you might like to take a look!  http://amershamhistory.info/research/trades-industries/goya/ - well worth reading!  Ref: 2983 C46/12 Price £20.

Goya powder box

TRIFARI - VINTAGE 3 ROW PEARLS & WHITE METAL BEADS NECKLACE

Trifari is a famous name in the world of vintage jewellery.  The designs and quality are usually very good.  Full details can be found on Google.  This 3 row necklace was probably made in the 1950/1960s when 2 and 3 row necklaces were very popular.  This one is more unusual as it is in white metal not gold tone.  The white metal is matt.  It has 2 different sizes of pearl and cylindrical matt white metal beads, twisted with bobbles.  Tiny white metal beads are threaded between.  The maximum length - with the extender - is about 18 inches.  Price £75 ref: 2981 C37/3

Trifari 3 row pearls necklace

VINTAGE MODES & THE RIVER TYBURN

I sell vintage jewellery at Vintage Modes in Grays Antiques - The Mews.  We are very lucky to have the River Tyburn running through Vintage Modes.  When Bennie Grays was setting up Grays Mews the basement was full of water - which turner out to be the Tyburn.  It still runs through the middle of Grays Mews and attracts a lot of visitors.  We have a small water feature in Vintage Modes - which we really love.  It gives a lovely atmosphere to the shop.  It is populated by a number of very large goldfish!  How lucky I am to have such an interesting base to sell my jewellery and accessories!  #GraysAntiques #GraysMews #GraysAntiquesRiverTyburn #VintageModesRiverTyburn #GillianHorsupRiverTyburn

Vintage Modes & the River Tyburn

BRANIA - VINTAGE GOLD TONE DANGLEY CHAINS FLOWER BROOCH

I do love jewellery that has things hanging!  This gold tone brooch made by Brania NY has gold tone tassel hangings.  It is quite large - being about 4 inches top to bottom - and is a stylized flower - which you can wear at different angles.Brania dangley chains flower brooch  It would have been made in the 1950/60s.  The gilt has aged a bit but it is not damaged.  It is marked Brania on the back.  I would be happy to wear this - it ticks all my boxes!  Full details as usual on the web site.  Perhaps I can wear it once before it goes on display in my shop at Grays Antiques in central London - where I have a large display of vintage costume jewellery.