This post answers these questions:
1. What is the history of the locket?
2. Why lockets are named lockets?
3. What do the symbols on a locket mean?
4. What is the difference between a locket and a pendant?
5. How can you tell if a locket is antique?
6. What is the Chequers Ring?
This post will answer these questions:
1. Who were the Etruscans?
2. Where and when did the Etruscans live?
3. How did the Etruscans live?
4. Which came first the Etruscan or Roman civilisations?
5. What is Etruscan Revival jewellery?
6. Why were the Victorians so fascinated by the Etruscans?
What are the differences between solid gold, gold front & back, gold plated, gold filled, rolled gold, gold cased, vermeil and pinchbeck?
What do the terms ormolu, parcel-gilt, bronze dore, mercury gilding, fire gilding, gold wash & fool's gold mean?
When and why was a British system of hallmarking established?
This post will answer all of these questions.
The founders of this firm were John Hussey & Francis Dawson. Although collectors of vintage powder compacts associate this firm with vanities, they produced a wide variety of products. These included money boxes, dolls house furniture, soothers for babies and toys. Holdfast was the brand name for the children’s play items manufactured by this firm.
The collaboration of Laughton & Sons Ltd. (owners of Stratton compact mirrors & accessories) & Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. was one that worked so well. Laughton & Sons commissioned Wedgwood to make commemorative plaques to adorn their vanities and also purely decorative mounts.
