Costume Jewellery

Tenner ‘car boot sale’ diamond makes £650k at auction

The diamond ring which was bought for £10 has been sold at a Sotheby’s auction for £656,750. The jewel was…

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Boot-sale diamond to be auctioned for £350,000

A diamond ring which was bought for £10 decades ago is expected to fetch £350,000 at auction. The owner, who…

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Brand Q&A: Going for growth, with Buckley London

Buckley London has established itself as a mainstay of fashion and costume jewellery in the UK market since it was…

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UK jewellery sales up 1.2% in 2015

Sales of UK jewellery grew 1.2% from £4.1bn in 2014 to an estimated £4.15bn in 2015, according to new data…

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£2,000 of jewellery stolen from Harrogate Home & Gift show

Jewellery worth more than £2,000 has been stolen from the Harrogate Home & Gift Show.  Two stands reported the incident…

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Q&A: Connoisseurs jewellery cleaning products

Connoisseurs, the jewellery cleaning product range, is soon to take the UK jewellery industry by storm thanks to the hard…

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Need to escape an awful date? There’s a pendant for that.

The Daily Mail reported last week that a company is now producing a necklace/bracelet that links to your phone via…

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ARCHIVE: An interview with acclaimed designer Theo Fennell

We caught up with London-based jewellery designer THEO FENNELL, whose flamboyant pieces caught the eye of one Elton John decades ago. Here,…

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Ari D Norman launches new competition for young designers

Ari D Norman, the gift and jewellery design company, is launching the first annual ‘Looking Back to Step Forward’ design…

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Shelia Fleet receives OBE in New Year’s honours

A jewellery designer who left school at 15 without a qualification has recently been awarded an OBE for services to…

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