I meant to post this a couple of months ago. It’s another addition to my gallery of Andreas Daub jewellery, and has been sitting in my VintagePointUK Etsy shop ever since. I think you’ll agree it has a Finnish look to it, reminiscent of pieces by Elis Kauppi. The main di5fference is that it’s rhodium plated, something you don’t often find on Scandinavian mid century jewellery.
Right now, there is a sale on in my Etsy shop, VintagepointUK. All brooches are marked at 30% off – there’s no need to enter a coupon code, just hit “Add to cart” and away you go. Offer closes midnight on October 15th.
At the time of posting there are thirty of these beauties, but here is a selection:
I sold a bangle in my Etsy shop the other day. It was black and white enamel, and was by Michaela Frey. This bangle was responsible for a significant percentage of my shop’s traffic and had over 100 favourites by the end of its stay there, so I was kind of sorry to see it go! I hope its new owner will love it though.
However, the day the bangle left the country, I found this in a local charity shop:
It’s stamped on the back with “Michaela Frey” and a copyright symbol and was probably made in the 1980s shortly after the death of its namesake. It has a languid, Art Deco feel to it – reminds me of those old fashioned tea rooms with home-made scones, strawberries and a trio of violinists in the corner.
Michaela Frey was an Austrian enameller who founded a jewellery company in the early 1950s. She died in 1980, but the company still lives on under the name Frey Wille, the “Wille” part coming from the CEO Friedrich Wille and his wife Simone.
Further reading:
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.
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