Treasures For This Week

Some fabulous finds this week are my Georgian and Victorian finds. I found the most adorble paste hearts one is Georgian (the samller one) and the other is Victorian (this has paste on both sides). This come to me from a private collector who is scaling down her beauties and retiring. These are personal hierlooms which also include a beautiful Victorian crescent brooch and two paste stars ... one of the stars seems to be silver but as is typical of that period nothing was marked. Let these beauties dazzel you jewelry projects or if are a collector then these are a very precious find. These will be available on My Etsy soon ...

New Treasures For This Week

Hello, Bonjour, Bonjourno ... to all my dear friends. Have I been busy these past few weeks or what. My little studio is now being a part of history as its coming down to be built into a carpark and restaurant for the 2012 Olympics. So moving and packing for me has been quite an ordeal. On a more interesting note, I have so many treasures to share with you, most of these will be available on my etsy store. If there is anything you love in particular please convo me and let me know. Right upto Christmas I will be featuring some fabulous finds so do check in from time to time and tell me what you think of these finds.
Here are some for this week:



Paste treasures from the Georgian and Victorian period with gorgeous bezel chains.


Beautiful antique Victorian watch chain - a collector's treasure


Rare Victorian lady's vesta match box - very beautiful, this belonged to my friend's great grandmother and she was half english half french ...

Taste of Treasures This Week

Sorry my friends I was a tad busy and really ignored my blog this past month. Well the idea of blogging is to share with everyone my finds of the week and so from now on I will try staying true to this and blog at least once a week. Anyways having said that I have to share this amazing French paste Ex Voto Sacred Heart I found ... this one is almost 200 years old and is spellboundinly beautiful. It opens from the back and has a big locket like compartment. Ex Votos like these apparantly are super rare and on reasearching I found that some of them are true collectables and go for as high as $2500 and honestly the ones I found were not half as blingalacious as this one I have. Here is a peek at this Blingalacious Beauty.

Some other bling bling beauties I found are two paste crosses, three paste birds and a beautiful paste pendant and crescent brooch with a painted miniature on ivory. All these pieces are beautiful and from the early Victorian period ... oooo I almost forgot about the shell paste piece. Enjoy the pics while I sign off for now ... my heart and soul needs to warm up cause its brrrrrrr in my lovely Londra.

Taste Of Treasures This Week

Hello there.....life has become all of a suddenly very busy what with the my regular job, the Treasure Trove and travelling for work and my favorite Flea Marketing .... I almost forgot about my blog till I looked at my amassed treasures for this week. One of the finds of the week was this amazingly long almost 29" MOP beads and boy are they big ...I found these in a little shop at the Camden Passage and they were tucked away in the corner .... these are a definitely a designer's treasure. Another find of this week was a Georgian paste frame pendant ....not featured here cause I am not sure I want to part with it yet ... and the best find of the week was a French paste belt buckle this one is beyond amazing and is silver plated from the 1920s ... here are some pics of my finds.

Beautiful Lot now available on Etsy ....

Beautiful French Paste Buckle From 1920s

Ooo la la paste crosses, two sterling and one with stanhope and the most adorable paste and sterling heart I have ever seen, the three sterling pieces are from 1910.

OMG what a treasure souvenir bracelets, nautical bracelets and the Bling what more can one ask for .....

Other than MOP !!!!

Taste Of Treasures This Week

Beyond Gorgeous and original a Fob photo pendant with its original chain .... all Victorian from Circa 1880 ..... Another true treasure and will be on my Etsy soon ....

Beautiful Ivory carved cross with beautiful Art Nouveau vines ....

Back of the commemorative medal .....

A rare and beautiful Queen Victoria Commemorative Medal with a portrait of the Queen in the center. The back of this medal has the National Anthem of England. I was told at the flea market this a true treasure find ....

Taste Of The Treasures This Week

..... A fleur-de-lys cross brooch very French indeed !!!!.......

The beauty of this shrine lies in the details ...what a find the crown, the bird, the details on the door and the most amazing part is that this shrine is only 5cm (rare) which makes it perfect as a jewelry focal ..

Gorgeous Sainte Therese Rosary Box Pendant ...

Beautiful Beautiful Edwardian/Victorian/French Paste ..... the birds, the crown, the paste clip all fabulous examples of paste ...

Fabulous French Art Nouveau pendant .... amazing details on the front and the back also opens up as a photo pendant a treasure for jewlery designers ...

Gorgeous Ex Voto Sacred Heart. This one is different than the ones I have seen .. its delicate with intricate work ....

Fabulous French Religious Lot of Ex Voto, Art Nouveau engraved Filigree , and Religious medals.

Milano ....

Hello again just wanted to share my trip to Milan ..... it does not have the same feel as Florence, Bologna, Venice or Rome but nevertheless its beautiful. Milan is more modern and you almost feel you are in Londra till you go towards the center and then .... OMG the vision of the beautiful Duoma is so overwhelming that you just are left speechless... here are some pics of the beautiful Duoma, since flash photography is not allowed these pictures are not perfect.

Updated Treasures For The Week

Here are some updated treasures for the week. Some of these will be available on my Etsy store in the coming week.

Fabulous original religious paste with Jesus on one side and Mary on the other. This one is very beautiful and again from across the channel from lovely France.

This lot is so beautiful .... blue rosary, book pendants showing the stations of the cross, Miraculous Mary medal from france, vintage silver toned rolo chain, 6 disco balls .... and some medals ....

This lot is a vintage french treasure with paste, book chain, rhinestone chain , Sainte Therese photo pendant, destash of beautiful rosaries and rosary bits, amazing medals and so much more available on Etsy as it ...

French paste buttons are highly collectable. Two weeks ago I found the exact same button in a smaller size in Paris puces de saint-quen at almost 100 Euros a button .... I know 100 Euros thats because they are tres tres ancien. Well I wasn't paying that no matter how much I loved them but then I found the same: 2 in a bigger size and 2 in a smaller at a brocante in Paris for much cheaper than 100 a piece. Collectors of french paste button know the value of these. This one is a bigger button and is so dazzling that its amazing and since I got it at a reasonably good price from a lovely lady who was kind and patient with my dilly dally decision making ... You can get it too from my Etsy at a reasonable price too compared to the 100 Euros .....

Medals and reliquaries that are almost 200 years old got from a dear old man from a little french village.
Beautiful fabulous french Art Nouveau pocket watches, mini prayer book reliquary, military medal, fabulous pendent shrine only 3cm rare, photo pendant and so much more ....

Ooooooo the cameo is so beautiful as is the rest of this treasure

This is the beauty of french religious: beautiful medals, amazing paste, cherub pendant(its weighty) many many beautiful crosses.

Miniature painting of Mary (really old) .... Tres Jolie ....

Metal reliquary of Saint Therese ...

Small picture of a beautiful french girl.