Featured Today’s Jewellery finds!

We went to an excellent car boot sale today. Lots of jewellery although lots at high street prices. Found a couple of dealers with plastic bags of odds and ends so I didn’t really know what I was getting and a few sellers with my sort of prices!. As you know I buy anything that catches my interest as I love the research that goes with it.
As always I’d love your input

Vulcanite? bangle 50p- sadly got a small chunk out of it but still nice.

Brooch with lock of hair. Glass in centre broken and surround damaged - what do you think the stone is or glass?

Cute glass bird necklace and spare birds.

Lovely beads- yellow are heavy swirly glass and the odd red ones I think are glass too but not sure. No clasps on any to help.

925 spider and pretty Sterling from pearl necklace. Two diamond and 925 necklaces not spotted by the dealer selling them!

No idea- celluloid?


14kt cufflink 50p, royal trumpet brooch- coronation?

All loose in a bag of bits. An old sterling bracelet and charms.

No idea. Answers on a postcard please. About 3 inches high.

 

And this- some sort of fob or seal?
Says ‘Our Trust and Hope’
Borrowed daughters hand

 

Certainly looks like it.

And @KSW , if you or somebody can find when the royal photo was taken, that should help in identifying whether it's for the coronation or not.

 

Nice haul, K.

Glass.

Coronation has my vote.

Does it have a ring underneath?

Both.

 

Those glass beads are nice: lampwork.

 

Do you mean the yellow ones?. The seller was raving about them being something special she had bought from auction etc etc but couldn’t remember what they were called.

 

Having looked closer there isn’t a loop. I just assumed he was a charm as he was with the others. Obviously a lost Scottie dog!

 

Any idea of the age of the hair brooch?.
Does it have a ring underneath?
Yes

 

Does this help?

 

Those little glass birdie beads - those are lampwork.

 

Ah, so lampwork is blown/worked glass. I’d never really thought about it but the name gives it away!.
I love the birdies. They are very cute.

 

Having googled Chalcedony I can see what you mean.
A gem tester is definitely on my birthday list so I can start to tell for myself what things are made of.

 

It's literally glass formed over a hot lamp: all those little glass animals you see. A real skill, fascinating to watch.

 

Around 1870 either glass or... calcedony
Very nice haul!!!

 

Having googled the black bangle I'm now wondering if it's Whitby jet and not vulcanite. That old chestnut......

 

Wow, an oldie. Shame it's a bit battered.
I may be a bit sad but sorting through old jewellery and finding little bits of history makes me happy

 

Or bog oak, or.... UUHHH black stuff is sooo confusing as Bronwen said

 

Edward vii and Alexandra?. Coronation 1902. Brooch has a safety pin type clasp so would that be about right?