Latest vintage gold charms

Ive been busy adding vintage charms to http://www.antiquesavenue.co.uk/ today all gold charms including some fobs suitable for a charm bracelet, the three wise monkeys , a kitty cat, a miner lamp, a bible, emergency money, a first aid box and a vitnage hoover. Heres a sneak preview:

Gold Charms - Vintage Jewellery 1800s to 1980s

Gold Charms - Vintage Jewellery 1800s to 1980s

Adding loads to the site today including an interesting first aid box which could be used as a locket, a miners lamp and an opening wedding church with stanhope peep . The threes wise monkeys - hear no evil, se no evil and speak no evil too. Must find out where they come from

Vintage charms beginning with D

Its been a while since I updated my vintage charm a-z but I have little spare time and will continue with the letter D. Vintage charms beginning with D :
Dancer, Dog, Duck, Doctors Bag, Devil, Devil in dustbin,Driving licence to name but a few you could find
here are a selection of those vintage charm currently available on antiquesavenue:

Dancer charms : Ballet dancer or highland dancer
This gold charm is in the shape of a highland dancer, I think he is dancing the highland fling. This highland dancer gold charm has full English charms and can be dated to the 1980s. The charm measures about 2.3 cms high maximum.
A beautiful ballet dancer charm to hang from your vintage charm bracelet or on a chain around your necklace. This charm is made from 9 ct gold and is stamped .375. She measures about 2.6 cms high


Dog Charms: Ive quite a selection - including German Shepherds, dachshunds and poodles.   Ive cartoon dogs , dogs on Dresden lamps and dogs chasing cats up lamp posts. How about a themed bracelet full of dog charms?

Cameo Charms

Cameo jewellery is often seen as brooches, rings and earrings. Less common but just as attractive are cameo charms, I suppose that these are found less often as a charm is small and therefore the picture is difficult to carve in miniature. Cameos are carved so that the picture stands proud of the background. Often but not essentially the design is in a contrasting colour to the background.

Cameos can be made from all sorts of materials, normally we think of shell cameos as can be seen in this cameo charm:

Other sorts of cameo charm include lava cameos which are usually carved in Italy from the lava from mount Etna . Here is a Victorian lava cameo charm

Here is an antique charm - a lava cameo of a classical figure mounted in silver. This charm measures about 2.5 cms long and dates from the Victorian era.

Cameos do not need to be made from natural materials, they can be made from glass, plastic or as in the case of this cameo charm by Wedgwood ceramic:

Strangely for charms you do not find many cameo charms made from gold or silver.

Gold charms: champagne church chick china man

More gold charms beginning with C, Ive just been busy adding more vintage gold charms to AntiquesAvenue and found these lovely gold charms from my "C" collection.

China man charm
A lovely vintage gold charm made of fully hallmarked 9 carat gold. This charm is in the shape of a china man. The charm measures about 1.5 cms high and 1.7 cms wide. This gold charm is suitable for wearing from a gold charm bracelet.

Champagne charm
This gold charm is in the shape of champagne bottle in its champagne bucket. This is a fully hallmarked vintage gold charm and is made of 9 carat gold. This charm is quite large measuring about 2.4 cms high and could be either worn on a charm bracelet or on a necklace as a pendant

Church charm
This gold charm is in the shape of a church and when you open it there is a Bride and groom standing in front of an alter. This charm is made of 9 carat gold and is fully hallmarked. It is quite a chunky charm and measures 1.9 cms high

Chick Gold Charm
A super opening gold charm. This is a nice vintage gold charm in the shape of an Easter egg which opens and inside in a cute little chick. This charm is fully hallmarked as 9 carat gold and when closed it measures about 1.4 cms long

Questions about charms

Have you a charm or charm bracelet that you would like to know more about ? This morning I received a request for help from a lady

i bought, what looks like, a very very old charm bracelet at an auction yesterday for $ 25.00. i was wondering if you could help me find out when it was from and what all the charms mean. it has 14 charms and they are very interesting and some are movable. i will send you a pic or a list of what the charms are if you like

I am happy to help her and others if you send a photo ( .jpg format) and a description. All interesting charms and charm bracelets queries will be posted here . Also I am happy to post pictures of your favourite charms so please do get in touch

Anne

Cat charms from Nursery Rhymes again

Cat charms come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and materials, they are one of the more popular collectable vintage charms.  Cats often feature in nursery Rhymes and childrens stories. I've already shown you two of my favourites Hey Diddle Diddle and The owl and the Pussy cat . Now I have found Ding Dong Bell

Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well!
Who put her in? Little Tommy Green.
Who pulled her out?Big Johnny Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To drown poor pussy-cat,
Who never did him any harm,
But killed the mice in his father's barn!

Here is that rhyme remembered in a vintage silver charm: