Rare Notes

Crystal & Glass: Vintage Objects That Catch the...

Glass is the most honest vintage category. A piece of 1960s Czech crystal either catches the light or it does not. There is no provenance to inflate, no signature to...

Gold-Tone Vintage Jewellery: Warm Metals, State...

Gold-tone is a material category that gets underestimated. The word suggests imitation — something that is not gold, described by what it is not. In practice, the best vintage gold-tone...

Dressing Table Objects: Vintage Trays, Boxes an...

The dressing table as an object has largely disappeared from modern homes, but the things that lived on it have not. Vintage trays, boxes, powder bowls, hand mirrors and ring...

The Pearl Edit: Vintage Faux Pearls, Chokers an...

Faux pearls are one of those categories where the vintage market routinely outperforms the contemporary one. The quality of the glass or resin, the weight of the clasp, the drape...