LEA STEIN BROOCH - FOX FACE - MOP, BLACK & RED

This is one of my favourite Lea Stein designs - along with the Cicada!  It is the Fox head - one of her older designs.  This one is in faux mother of pearl, black and red.  It is quite a strong design - which I like.  See full details on my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - price £65 reference 2683 B139/45 #LeaSteinBrooch #LeaSteinFoxHeadBrooch

POP UP SHOP - GRAYS ANTIQUES - 28TH & 29TH AUGUST 2014

As Vintage Modes - at Grays Antiques - is shut due to flooding, we are having a Pop Up Shop on Thursday and Friday, 28th and 29th August 2014.  There will be clothes, accessories and jewellery.  Gillian Horsup Vintage Jewellery will be taking party.  I will not be showing my usual stock - that is all locked away - safe from the damp!  Instead I will be having a sale of small items at give away prices!  Small things get lost amongst the larger items in my shop.  A lot of the brooches, for example, will be priced at £5. Here are some examples.  

Do visit the shop.  It will be upstairs above Grays Mews - in the Music Room - from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. #PopUpShopGraysAntiques  #PopUpShopVintageModes  #PopUpShopGillianHorsupVintageJewellery

CELLULOID BAG TOP/FRAME - ART DECO - ORIENTAL FISHES DESIGN

This is a celluloid bag top/frame.  It would have had a material bottom.  There are holes for sewing.  It has two Oriental fishes and a face inside a flower.  It would have been from the Art Deco period.  Ladies would purchase the frame and make a bag to match their outfit!  It would most likely have been made in Japan.  These frames are now very collectible - especially when the frame hinges and catch work, as this one does!  www.gillianhorsup.com - reference 2681 B81/12 price £140.  #CelluloidBagFrameArtDeco #CelluloidBagFrameOrientalFishDesign #CelluloidBagFrameFishes

RED BAKELITE PERFUME BOTTLE

This is a small, red bakelite perfume bottle.  Tests strongly with simichrome cream.  Condition and dimensions on my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - reference 2680 B141/3 Price £78.  So nice to get a perfume bottle with a top that will undo - so many are stuck!

BSK VINTAGE CLIP EARRINGS - OPALINE & PINK GLASS STONES

Here's a pair of vintage BSK clip earrings on gold tone metal.  They have opaline and pink glass stones.  See full description on my web site - www.gillianhorsup - including some details of the company BSK.  Price £40 reference 2679 B140/53.  I have a large stock of vintage clip earrings - many of my customers do not have pierced ears.  #vintageBSKclipearrings

RED BAKELITE DRESS CLIP - FLOWER AND LEAVES

Here's a cheering red bakelite dress clip.  It is cut in the shape of a flower and leaves.  Price £48 reference 2678 B141/24.  On my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - and see my blog there on suggestions for wearing dress clips.  #RedFlowerBakeliteDressClip #RedBakeliteDressClip #BakeliteDressClip

LEA STEIN BROOCH - THE PANDA

This is the Lea Stein panda brooch - with the stick of bamboo.  Ages since I had one.  The panda is mother of pearl and black.  It has a branch of green and yellow bamboo.  Just one of the many Lea Stein brooches I have in stock at the moment.  Reference 2676 B139/55 price £68.  #LeaSteinBrooch #LeaSteinPandaBrooch

VINTAGE JEWELLERY - GILLIAN HORSUP - VINTAGE MODES - FLOOD

I sell Vintage Jewellery at Grays Antiques in central London.  My stand is in Vintage Modes at Grays Mews.  Unfortunately at the moment - 12th August 2014 - the basement at Grays Mews is flooded and we are not able to open.  I do not know how long it will take to dry the shop out.  Thames Water still have not come to drain the basement - which is making the situation much worse.  Please ring the Grays telephone - 020 7629 7034 - before you come.  Luckily our goldfish - in the river Tyburn stream that passes through our basement - have been saved!  I am still selling through my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com

LARGE GREEN BAKELITE FLOWER BROOCH

I stock a large selection of Vintage Jewellery at my shop in Grays Antiques (central London).  I particularly love bakelite and buy good examples whenever I can.  This large green and yellow bakelite flower brooch is a recent find - and I was delighted with it.  Full details are on my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - look under 'new stock' and you will find it easily.  Price £120 reference 2673 B141/36.  #BakeliteFlowerBrooch #LargeBakeliteFlowerBrooch #LargeBakeliteBrooch #GreenBakeliteFlowerBrooch

GROSSE - VINTAGE SWORD BROOCH - GOLD TONE METAL

This is a sword brooch by Grosse.  Grosse made Dior's jewellery for 50 years before being bought by Dior in 2005.  Their jewellery is always very good quality - as might be expected.  This is a sword brooch measuring over 4 1/2 inches.  See full description on my web site - www.gillianhorsup.com - price £75 reference 2671 B140/43.