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We add articles, reference pages and recent acquisitions continually and would like to keep you abreast of whats new on a monthly basis with this newsletter.
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MORNING GLORY also owns a bricks and mortar store called the ANTIQUE CONNECTION MALL on Historic Route 66 at 12815 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is just off of Interstate-40 East at the foot of the Sandia Mountains. We have about 60 friendly and knowledgeable dealers in a 10,000 square foot clean and well-lit building. It is a really fun and interesting place to shop with a wide variety of antiques and collectibles. In addition, we offer maps to the other local shops, places to sit and relax a bit while shopping, and clean bathrooms.
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The combination of turquoise and yellow gold was popular during the Victorian era, and the photos shown here show why. According to Wikipedia, the word "turquoise" came about when the earliest of these lovely blue stones was brought from Turkey into Europe around the 16th century.
Turquoise was also was mined in many other areas and countries with differences in the fineness, matrix and color in each. More about turquoise can be read HERE. Persian turquoise tends to have little to no matrix, as you can see in the pieces shown here. Turquoise was a popular jewelry stone throughout the Victorian era, and is was sometimes used to symbolize "remembrance" and the forget-me-not. The rings in the shape of a forget-me-not flower are an example of this.
We have some lovely examples for sale in the shop right now, and you can buy some for your own collection HERE.
And if you want to see the pieces we've had in the past, please click HERE to go to our gallery.
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For centuries, ladies wore necessary and useful implements clasped to the waist of their dresses because clothing was not made with pockets for carrying such items. Called "CHATELAINES", they were usually worn suspended from a clip or large brooch with chains and hooks to hold the various implements. Some were also worn on a finger ring, particularly dance chatelaines that might include vanity items, such a powder and a mirror. Fashioned of both precious and non-precious metals, they could be extremely simple or highly ornamented with embossed work, pierced work and gem stones. They were fashioned in a wide variety of materials: gold, sterling, gold washed, cut steel or enameled and jeweled.
Chatelaines might be comprised of items all used for one task... a sewing chatelaine for instance... or combined with various items that suited the wearer. Some were matching sets and others were compiled over time by the owner, as especially seen in the sterling chatelaines. Belt chatelaines or waist hooks were also used to hold a purse, as seen in vintage photographs. Most fashionable from about 1840 to World War I, they remain popular with collectors today.
To see the chatelaines we have FOR SALE, click here at Morning Glory Jewelry.
And our gallery of chatelaines we have owned in the past, along with vintage photographs showing how they were worn, is HERE.
LORGNETTES were made in a wide variety of materials: sterling, karat gold, gold wash, tortoise, ivory, mother-of-pearl and lovely enameling and gem stones. Those with a strong design sense (for example Art Nouveau or Arts & Crafts) are most desirable. Some collectors have their own prescription mounted into an old lorgnette so that they are actually useable.
Well-dressed ladies wore "LONG CHAINS", sometimes looped and caught on the bodice with a brooch, sometimes worn full length, and often draped across the entire front of a dress and caught at the belt to be the main ornament. Chains were made in both precious and non-precious metals, and could be extremely simple or ornamented with stones and seed pearls. Some had slides, which have become collectible in their own right. From these chains were suspended watches or lorgnettes, as well as lockets and other useful implements.
The lorgnettes FOR SALE are HERE.
The lorgnette page in the Jewel Chat gallery is HERE.
If you enjoy chatelaines, we do recommend the book "Chatelaines" by Cummins & Taunton. It is a beautifully created book with both wonderful photos and extensive information dating back for decades.
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