Women collected and worn vintage jewelry for many decades, an antique brooch, necklace or earrings make a welcome and popular gift and will be kept and approved for many years. But what about the gentlemen? There are also a lot of vintage jewelry for them, as well as films such as Holmes, which popularize clothes made from vintage clothes, such as hats and vests, which people in your life will also appreciate a piece of vintage jewelry.
You could give your man a ring, an earring, or a chain of the neck, but here are a few items of ancient tools that you might not have thought:
Pins for pins, ties or lapel pins - three different names for the same piece of jewelry that men wear more regularly than women. These little pins seem very strange and old-fashioned these days, but they are also very accessible for collecting. I recently saw a show on TV, where even small and modest examples were valued at £ 100.
A pin is smaller and less spectacular than a brooch, but you can wear it in the same way on the lapel of a jacket or attach it to a tie so that they both decorate it and keep it in place. What sets it apart from a brooch is how it is made and held in place. The pin-finger has a decorative element at the top of a long stick, and not for the pin. This allows the need for decorative details to be very small. They wore Victorian and Edwardian gentlemen and ladies, but these days they are more considered to be jewelers for gentlemen.
The key to the desirability of a wand is the combination of materials used (gold and diamonds more expensive than silver and crystal, for example), as well as the subject of the stick. A silver and crystal shaped finger on a monkey is likely to be more expensive than an oval shape with a tiny diamond in the center.
Most antique stick pins have a spiral groove around the pin, which was used to screw the “keeper”, which acted to prevent the pin from falling. This is one of the indicators indicating that your wand pin is antique or more modern, since modern copies do not have such a groove. You can see an example of this indentation in the third photo below the opal rod pin.
Watch chains
The watch chain is often known as Albert after Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, who first popularized the wearing of these chains. There are two types of chains of Albert watches one and two. One Albert watch chain will have a T-bar at one end and a dog clip at the other. The Albert double watch chain has a central T panel with two chains hanging from it, each chain has a dog clip at each end. Watch for chains where graded links become more in the center than at the ends, and also note that the lion's stamp is printed on each link.
Your watch chain will usually have a very short chain hanging from the T-bar, it will simply measure an inch or two. You can attach a fob from this chain to complete Albert.
Fobs
As noted above, the beans hung from the watch chains, but they can also be worn on a neck chain or attached to a ring. You can find beans made from silver or gold. Some of them, in the form of sports medals, are engraved in the cricket winner, swimming, or perhaps music or poetry. The desired fobs are enameled in several colors. Others are set with hard stones, including bloodstone or carnelian.
