Jewelry history education

Searching for information about the history of jewelry. We have put together this site about some of the more interesting facts on jewelry. We have scoured the internet to find this information. Look around and have fun..

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Jewelry terms and meanings

By the 1950s, the jewelry was a must-have accessory for girls and women. Major rites of passage - 16th birthdays, graduations, weddings, travel and the arrival of children - were all recorded on
the links of their bracelets. Today some of these vintage bracelets sell for two to three thousand dollars at auction. jewelry began to disappear from the fashion scene during the early 1970s. Disco was in and bare gold chains became the new status symbol. But in the mid-1980s jewelry reappeared. New-money heirs uninterested in the old baubles of their dead relatives were liquidating huge estates. Jewelry that had been out of circulation for decades were showing up in antique stores and flea markets. Savvy buyers snapped them up at cheap prices.