Brooch - costume jewellery - round with large clear stones around sides with smaller clear stones in centre.costume accessories, jewellery

Personal costume jewellery donated by Dione McIntyre Medium length, clear red plastic necklace made of moulded plastic beads.necklaces, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Article about Bruce Reynolds, a licensed secondhand dealer with an interest in the repair of old furniture and jewellery. He has raised money for charity by exhibiting a collection of authentic antique and period costume jewellery. He lives in Vermont and is a member of the Society. Cutting from Nunawading Gazette 18th May, 1994Article about Bruce Reynolds, a licensed second-hand dealer with an interest in the repair of old furniture and jewellery. reynolds, bruce, antique shops, jewellers

Size of box is 6cm x 4cm In 1936, young Eric Child (1910-1995) met, and squired around London's jazz night-spots, Lucille Wilson a dancer in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds stage production at the Gaiety Theatre. Although Lucille knew a few famous bandleaders she, at that time, had never heard of Louis Armstrong, THE King of jazz, according to Eric. Later, in a letter to Eric in late 1942, Lucille wrote that she had met his King - and had become his fourth wife on 7th October 1942. She had finally worked with Louis at the new Cotton Club in Harlem in 1939 where she was in the chorus line using the stage name Brown Sugar. The long platonic friendship with Lucille remained and Eric and his wife Angela (1919-2001) welcomed her and the King in Brisbane on Louis' first visit to Australia in April 1956, and on all subsequent visits here. At a dinner at the Child's Sydney home Lucille presented Angela with one of Louis' famous stage handkerchiefs, signed by the All Stars, and a her own brooch and earrings, which Angela had quite innocently admired. Following Eric's death in 1995, Angela promised the Louis handkerchief to Bill Haesler and the brooch and earrings to Jess Haesler when she died. Rather than keeping these unique items private, the Haeslers donated them, in Angela's memory to the Victorian Jazz Archive. A unique momento of jazz great Louis his wife Lucille Armstrong,and his Australian friends Eric and Angela Child.Costume jewellery - Silver and cut glass brooch and ear ringslucille armstrong, angela child, ear rings, brooch

A plastic, costume jewellery, fashion accessory for early 20th Century ladies Plastic is a material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organics that are malleable and can be moulded into solid objects of diverse shapes. Due to their relatively low cost, ease of manufacture, versatility, and imperviousness to water, plastics are used in an enormous and expanding range of products. They displaced many traditional materials, such as wood, stone, horn and bone, leather, paper, metal, glass, and ceramic, in most of their former uses including jewellery. Parkesine is considered the first man-made plastic. The plastic material was patented by Alexander Parkes, In Birmingham, UK in 1856.The world's first fully synthetic plastic was bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland who coined the term 'plastics'. After World War I, improvements in chemical technology led to an explosion in new forms of plastics, with mass production beginning in the 1940s during World War 11 due to shortages of silk and ivory. A small, black plastic brooch with a verticle pin at back and diamante decoration .fashion, costume jewellery, personal effects, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, early settlers, jewellery, plastic

Women wear rings to denote their marital status or as a fashion statement. They may be small or large, valuable or costume, or part of the overall accessories to accompany their outfit. Some stones have significance or may have sentimental attraction.A small gold ring that is typical of the jewellery worn by early settler women in Moorabbin Shire c1900A small gold ring with a blue stone in an original paper mache box c1900jewellery, costume jewellery, early settlers, moorabbin shire, bentleigh, mckinnon, ormond, cheltenham,

Gilt and white metal rope necklace.jewellery, necklaces, costume jewellery

Gilt, silver and pearl multi-strand necklace, often worn with the gold caftan, previously donated by Dione McIntyre to the Society.neclaces, costume jewellery, dione mcintyre

Graduated double strand of small faux pearls joined by a metal and diamanté clasp.costume jewellery, dione mcintyre, neclaces

Triple strand of single size faux pearls joined by a silver metal clasp with a single glass stone surrounded by 12 smaller glass stones. The necklace was bought from a shop at the Fun Factory in Chapel Street but never worn.costume jewellery, dione mcintyre, necklaces

Short strand of single size faux pearls joined by a white metal and diamanté clasp.costume jewellery, necklaces, dione mcintyre

Short strand of single size pink faux pearls joined by a white metal clasp.costume jewellery, necklaces

Necklace of graduated green plastic moulded beads,necklaces, costume jewellery

Choker of multi-strand fine white metal chains held by large clasps at the back of the neck.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, necklaces

Necklace constructed of single-size bone (sic) flowers with a single bone flower used as a pendant.necklaces, costume jewellery

Long necklace made of carved and lacquered, imitation cinnabar beads.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, necklaces

Three slightly different multicoloured glass and white metal chokers, each with commercially made clasps of the same metal.necklaces, costume jewellery

Long simulated gold chain necklace ending in a Hercules knot.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, necklaces

Item of functional jewelleryGilded metal and oval pink pearl hat pin.hat pins, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Necklace comprised of twisted heavy clinks. The necklace might have been worn with a similar set of earrings (2017.0186) in the collection.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, necklaces

Curved band of faux pearls held on a white metal base with a screw fitting.costume jewellery, fashion accessories, earrings

Pair of simulated gold link earrings that might have been worn with the necklace (2017.0184) in the collection.earrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Pair of large hoop earringsearrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Pair of small goldstone earringsearrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Pair of large imitation sapphire earrings, surrounded by imitation diamonds, all in a silvered plastic setting. earrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Three home-made enamel on metal rings in various shapes and coloursrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Long strand of standardised faux pearls with a gold metal and pearl clasp.necklaces, costume jewellery, fashion accessories

Pair of pearlescent plastic and metal earrrings.earrings, costume jewellery, fashion accessories