Show your Unusual and Interesting Jewelery pieces... please

[Bron357]

Hi all, I’m a long term collector and lover of the weird, unusual and interesting. And I like to recycle, repurpose damaged items.
I bought it as an awful, mouldy handbag with some interesting enamel trim. I bought it cheap ($20 I think) for the enamel parts, I thought I could remove it and recycle it into a pendant and put a piece of onyx into what was an empty round section.
I was very surprised upon receiving it to find that there was a watch movement in tissue inside the bag (the seller made no mention of it!!!!). The watch movement had no glass and wasn’t working. It was what was supposed to fit in the empty round section. The handbag itself is in appalling poor condition. The outside was worn, filthy discolored suede so I dyed it to make it presentable. I sat it in the sun and air (sans watch movement) for a month to get rid of the mouldy smell - yuk.
Closer examination revealed it was French silver (hall marked) and the watch also French. Off to the watchmaker I went. New glass cut and installed and a full service (ohhh he says, French, that’s rare). Of course now I can’t possibly destroy the bag.
So here it is, very unusual and unique.
And if you want to see more unusual watches - I can do !

 

[foxinsox]

Yes please!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

If they are even half as cool as this we need to see them!

 

[stracci2000]

Here are two scrimshaw pendants.
The first is carved on a fossilized walrus tooth, and the other is on mammoth ivory.
I bought them both on Maui some years ago.

 

[stracci2000]

This is my Niihau Shell Lei necklace.
If you've been to Hawaii, you may have seen these. The shells are only found on Niihau and some beaches on Kauai. The women who string these shells comb the sand for these tiny shells and make the most awesome necklaces, which can go for many thousands of dollars.
I found this beauty at a local rummage sale, where no one recognized what it was, except me!

 

[Bron357]

This is my Niihau Shell Lei necklace.
If you've been to Hawaii, you may have seen these. The shells are only found on Niihau and some beaches on Kauai. The women who string these shells comb the sand for these tiny shells and make the most awesome necklaces, which can go for many thousands of dollars.
I found this beauty at a local rummage sale, where no one recognized what it was, except me!

Fabulous score there. Isn’t it just the best when you can find a gorgeous little treasure and rescue it from anonymity?

 

[Bron357]

Here are two scrimshaw pendants.
The first is carved on a fossilized walrus tooth, and the other is on mammoth ivory.
I bought them both on Maui some years ago.

I’ve always loved these scrimshaw pieces - mammoth ivory wow - you won’t find someone saying “oh yes, I’ve got some of them at home too,”.

 

[Bron357]

My first love is in fact watches.
Here are two interesting ones. Both look like bracelets but conceal a watch. A little different to the usual covered dial watches.
The top one is an Omega in 14kt yellow gold with various slide charms.
The other a Lucien Picard, the watch swivels around. Also 14kt and it came with matching earrings and a brooch / pendant as well.

 

[stracci2000]

My first love is in fact watches.
Here are two interesting ones. Both look like bracelets but conceal a watch. A little different to the usual covered dial watches.
The top one is an Omega in 14kt yellow gold with various slide charms.
The other a Lucien Picard, the watch swivels around. Also 14kt and it came with matching earrings and a brooch / pendant as well.

Stunning! Please show the matching pieces to the Lucien Picarrd!

 

[stracci2000]

These are 18k dangle rings from Syria.
I admired them on grandma's hand, so she gave them to me, about 35 yrs ago!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

All of these pieces are so cool.

 

[Kitten_Sparkles]

I got this from a great great aunt born in 1898, but I still dont know anything about this pin.

 

[stracci2000]

I got this from a great great aunt born in 1898, but I still dont know anything about this pin.

Wow! So awesome! I love crab jewelry!

 

[Gemjardine]

Wow what wonderfully unique pieces!

I spotted this interesting mosaic jewellery piece on Portobello Road in London - I love the intricacy of the mosaic work, and certainly haven’t seen anything like it before. Imagine my delight when my mother in law bought it later (my aunt who I was shopping with told her about how I agonised whether to buy it or not), fixed the broken clasp, and gifted it to me for Christmas!

 

[Kitten_Sparkles]

Wow what wonderfully unique pieces!

I spotted this interesting mosaic jewellery piece on Portobello Road in London - I love the intricacy of the mosaic work, and certainly haven’t seen anything like it before. Imagine my delight when my mother in law bought it later (my aunt who I was shopping with told her about how I agonised whether to buy it or not), fixed the broken clasp, and gifted it to me for Christmas!

Oh my!!!! That's absolutely gorgeous!!! I am obscessed. Do you know when it's from or what it's called?

 

[meely]

Oh my!!!! That's absolutely gorgeous!!! I am obscessed. Do you know when it's from or what it's called?

It's known as micro mosaic.

 

[Gemjardine]

It's known as micro mosaic.

Thanks meely - I didn’t know that; good to learn!

 

[Gemjardine]

Oh my!!!! That's absolutely gorgeous!!! I am obscessed. Do you know when it's from or what it's called?

Thanks Kitten Sparkles! I’m not sure when it is from (if it is a genuine antique or a replica) but Wikipedia tells me micromosaic jewellery fell out of fashion in the 1870s.