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Discover Jet Jewellery at RHEINFRANK Antique & Vintage Jewellery Berlin

The best way to describe Victorian jewellery with one word is "soulful". It describes love and memory, with its representing symbols such as heart and hands, snakes and knots. The strict rules of the Victorian period of mourning as of 1861, asked the fact, that the pieces of jewellery should be black in the first year of grief. However, the trendy ladies of the society made this jewellery universally valid and it was worn continuously, whether grief or not. In the...

26. May 2017Read more...

René Lalique introduced horn introduced horn in the circle of high-quality jewellery

René Lalique, the big master of Art nouveau (in Germany known as Jugendstil ), introduced horn in the circle of high-quality jewellery. His internationally known contemporaries Georges Pierre and Elizabeth Bonté have designed  also horn-rimmed jewellery at the same time and have decisively contributed to the fact that jewellery, sculpture and fashion met and melted with each other. The way women dressed themselves was subjected to a revolutionary change about 1900. The liberation from the corset and carrying light, fluent materials...

26. April 2017Read more...

Cufflinks are probably the most versatile pieces of jewellery available

Cufflinks are probably the most versatile pieces of jewellery available. Not only for men with style and good taste, but in every respect. An unmatched variety of the used materials, stylistic means and motives, as well as every conceivable form characterize this category. Anyone who searches cufflinks and finds with us antique and vintage cufflinks, can draw from unlimited resources. The heyday begins about 1920, at the end of art nouveau and the beginning of art déco, where cufflinks became...

30. March 2017, Read more...

Antique engagement rings – the timeless passion!

Currently we experience the romantic Renaissance of the engagement ring. This development is especially for young people the climax on reflecting the honest and remaining values in life. Even more: it is a unprecedented declaration of love to love. An antique engagement ring corresponds to the today's desire for individuality and esteem the most. Pieces of jewellery with history are very popular in the new spirit of the time (zeitgeist) and are at least 50 years old. The antique engagement ring...

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