A fabulous selection of Antique Jewellery Georgian Jewellery , Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco & Art nouveau, Antique Diamond Rings, Vintage Brooches, Victorian Earrings, Lockets, Antique Bracelets, Gem set Jewellery, mourning jewellery, Whitby Jet, cameos and fine Antique jewellery. With the addition of occasional nearly-new contemporary and vintage jewellery

*All of our gold and diamond products are fully guaranteed to be 100% genuine* Free quality presentation boxes with your ring purchase - Take a look around and don't be afraid to make an offer when you see the option!

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Customer Services:

*Please note that jewellery stocks are not kept at the correspondence, order and payment addresses.

We are based within the UK and have been a part of eBay UK for several years, diversifying our product range and striving to provide good quality merchandise at a price you can afford - along with a friendly, approachable and efficient service. We would rather bend over backwards to to make our customers happy than receive negative feedback and we encourage anyone who has any concerns over their purchase to contact us in the first instance.

Our return policy is as follows:

Returns: We do want you to be 100% satisfied with your purchase and if you feel your jewellery has not been accurately described then please contact us within 7 working days from receipt of the item for a full refund, provided the jewellery has not been altered or tampered with in any way.

If you are simply not happy with your choice we may be willing to exchange the piece for items of the same value but not of a lesser value. Unfortunately, shipping is not refundable.

Postage & Package:

We have noticed that people are not always happy paying the high postage fees that Royal Mail demand for insured shipment of jewellery. Unfortunately, Royal Mail will only insure fine jewellery via Special Delivery, which is around £4.80 upwards. We understand that our customers do not always want to stretch to this extra expense so we have reduced our postage fees and now allow customers the option to purchase insurance, or the postage type of their choice, this is available on the invoice through paypal. When uninsured postage is used, this unfortunately means that items that are sent without insurance are at the customers own risk and we cannot be held responsible for lost items in transit. We do, however, always obtain proof of postage and will assist customers to the best of our ability should the worst happen.

Combined Postage: Each additional item purchased is charged at £0.75

*Customers are responsible for all import duties and taxes that may be required of them

Packaging: Unless otherwise stated, our items are all presented to you in a new black velvet pouch or new black velvet ring box. Boxes shown in pictures are usually for display purposes only

Modern hallmarks:

Gold Purity:

A hallmark is a small stamp on Gold, Silver or Platinum which means the article has been independently tested and is guaranteed to contain the stated quantities of purity/fineness. For example, gold is divided into 24 parts, each part is called a carat, 24 carat gold is pure gold, however, pure gold is too soft to be used in jewellery making so other complimentary metals are added to give the metal strength. So then the article is hallmarked as to how much gold it contains, 22 carat gold has 22 parts of pure gold and two parts of other metals. 18 carat gold has 18 parts of pure gold and 6 parts of other metals and so on. Hallmarks now are more often stamped as Millesimal fineness marks, common to UK precious metals. This is the number of parts per thousand of pure precious metal in the alloy. The current fineness allowed in the UK are shown here.

Common Control Marks also used for gold, silver, and platinum, regulated by the European Union.

Assay Offices in the UK:

The assay office marks - from left to right, the leopard's head of London, the anchor of Birmingham, the Yorkshire rose of Sheffield, and the castle of Edinburgh.

The Hallmarking Act 1973 made Britain a member of the Vienna Convention as well as introducing marking for platinum, a recognized metal under the Convention. Previous to this time, UK Assay offices had used independent marks to state the date the item was stamped, after the 1973 act, all four remaining assay offices finally adopted the same date letter sequences. The latest changes in 1999 were made to the UK hallmarking system to bring the system closer into line with the European Union (EU).

As it now stands, the compulsory part of the UK hallmark consists of the sponsor or maker's mark, the assay office mark, and the standard of fineness (Silver below)

Examples of British hallmarks for 925 silver. These are shown in the top of the two example hallmarks. The bottom example shows the extra marks that can also be struck, the lion passant, indicating Sterling silver, the date mark (lowercase a for '2000'), and in this example, the 'Millennium mark', which was only available for the years 1999 and 2000. The bottom example bears the Yorkshire rose mark for the Sheffield Assay Office.[6]

Ring Size Guide:

In many cases a ring can be altered at a competent jewellers for a modest fee, the things to note are; Does the ring shank have enough bulk to be made larger? When a ring has stones set around the full circumference of the ring, re-sizing will not be possible, there must be enough plane metal shank to allow the ring to be altered.

If you are unsure of your ring size the you can use our chart which is based on the ring size to the nearest .5 mm. Because there are differing systems to calculate ring sizes, we cannot claim this to be 100% accurate but is based on thorough research and the most accurate results we could find.

How to determine your ring size;

Wrap a piece of string or a strip of paper around your finger.
Mark the point where the two ends meet.
Measure the string or paper against a ruler to get the circumference of your finger.
Divide that by 3.14 to get the diameter of your finger.
Look up your ring size using the table below (you can consider the size you got the 'inside circumference/diameter')

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