Guides
How-to guides and jewelry tools
Practical help before you buy: measure your ring size at home, convert a European size to a US size, and choose a piece as a gift.
How to measure your ring size
Four ways to find your size at home, the traps that make people order a size wrong, and a converter between US, EU and UK sizes.
9 min read
Ring size chart (US, EU and UK)
A full conversion table between US numbers, European circumference sizes, UK letters and inner diameter.
4 min read
Vintage jewelry gift guide
How to choose an antique piece as a gift when you cannot ask the one question you need answered.
7 min read
How to clean vintage jewelry at home
Warm water, a soft brush and knowing when to stop.
6 min read
How to store and travel with vintage jewelry
Separate, soft, dry and always in your hand luggage.
6 min read
When to repolish vintage jewelry, and why it can lower value
Polishing removes metal. On an antique piece, that metal is the history.
6 min read
Caring for pearls, opals and other soft stones
Last on, first off, and never in an ultrasonic.
6 min read
Resizing vintage rings, what is and is not possible
Some antique rings resize like any modern ring. Others should not be cut at all.
8 min read
Written in the workshop
Everything here is written by the people who buy and restore these pieces
No stock copy and no invented history: if a fact is not on the piece or in its paperwork, we say so.
From the reading to the piece
Shop vintage rings
Each piece is one of a kind and sells once, so this collection changes constantly.
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