Selling vintage jewellery as I do, I struggle with a perennial problem: how to detach emotionally from the pieces I find, and actually sell them as opposed to keeping them for myself. This issue often comes back to haunt me because I’ve made a rule to concentrate only on selling things that I actually like.

The big orange-stoned beauty shown below is a case in point. With great reluctance, I’ve just put it on sale in my Etsy shop. But it nearly didn’t make it there. The pendant is sterling silver and is set with a faceted orange topaz stone. It’s big, bold and modernistic, and was probably made in the 60s or 70s. There is “925” mark on the bale, plus a maker’s mark – “A*D”. This is the mark of Andreas Daub, a jewellery manufacturer from Pforzheim, south-west Germany, which is still in business today.

Here’s a link if you want to read more about Andreas Daub:

http://www.andreas-daub.com/html/profil_e.htm

I’ve also posted some more pics of Andreas Daub jewellery items below; most of these are available in my shop at the time of writing. More to be added as & when I get my mitts on them.