What's Working Wednesday: Twitter Lists

As I understand it, Twitter Lists aren't available to all, yet. Somehow, we made it into the small, select group of Twitter accounts that can create public or private lists.

We made one for vintage jewelry that include the members of the Vintage Jewelry Sellers on Etsy team. You can find the list here https://twitter.com/vaguerecollectn/vintagejewelry

Vintage Jewelry Sellers on Etsy has a bunch of locations - Check out our website, our blog, and our Etsy page. You can also find us on Facebook, Flickr, and Twibes.

You can always search Etsy for VJSE; we all include that in our tags for easy vintage searching!

Tuesday Travels: Upstate New York

My mother and I have always had a fond spot for vintage items, preservation, and reunification. We have long loved the hunt for "buried treasures" in different types of stores. But two years ago this past August, my mother's aunt passed away. And we realized that even between the two of us, we simply couldn't ingest all that Aunt Kate had in her home.

So, we embarked upon our first series of sales on eBay under the name Mom and Misha. You can still find us there. While we don't have an eBay store; we do have a few auctions going at almost all times. The more we sold on eBay, though, the more we realized we wanted a full-time store of the really precious items, which is how A Vague reCollection came to be.

This past weekend, we went back up to my mom's aunt's. We have lots of 'new' vintage items to list, and we'll be doing so in the coming weeks! We have lots of jewelry and some Christmas decorations to list before the holidays; and we will be listing Lenox figurines and Fiestaware after the holidays most likely. Oh, and do we have anything you could need in terms of vintage buttons and seashells! All coming soon...

We'll try to get some pictures up tonight to whet your appetite!

Up and Coming Pieces - Should Be Listed by Week's End

Here are some items we have been working to get listed. The first one hasn't been listed mostly because we aren't sure what it is ;-) Do you have any ideas? We'd love to hear them.
We are in heart of this sewing etui from Austria. We'll be sorry to see it go, but we're sure it's going to find a good and loving home! Maybe yours?!
Slowly getting into the world of supplies, we found this vintage, hammered metal buckle and button set still in its original packaging! Check it out!
Had no idea how difficult it would be to photograph black rhinestones, but it is even trickier than other pieces and forms of jewelry. But we're trying! Here we have a lovely tulip shaped pin in a black metal/black rhinestone fashion. Two of the rhinestones are missing, which we're trying to capture in the other/detail pictures. It's still precious, and happily due to the black metal background the lost rhinestones aren't terribly noticeable!

The tulip brooch is now listed!!

Friday Finds - Coro Necklaces

Today's Friday Finds is all about Coro, specifically their necklaces. Looking through different VJSE shops, I began to think about how lovely Coro pieces are. We have a leaf necklace that I find really charming, and it's a fun little pastime of mine to shop through different but similar styles. Coro loved leaves.

BCTreasureTrove has a particularly interesting Coro necklace (this item is now sold). I just love how the leaves come in threes and wrap their own meander pattern style around the neck. Yet, when you look at the matching earrings, you don't even feel as though anything is missing. They stand on their own entirely!

You can see that while the theme remains the same, the pattern is quite different with our Coro necklace:

Each of the leaves in this pattern also has three elements. The leaves are the main element, but then there are also berries flanking the sides of the leaf.

Just when you think you are learning some central themes, you realize how wrong you are. After all, Coro was around from 1900 to 1979! Naturally they moved within different themes, styles, and on to new ones over the course of nearly 80 years. Here's a leaf necklace by Coro that isn't in keeping with other themes I've noted. Being a novice can be fun because almost everything is new and exciting!

The above is a necklace and earring set by Coro currently listed Whiggytreasures! Don't you just love the interlocking chain running through the center of the leaves?

While these necklaces are indicative of Coro nature themes, they also do exquisite pieces with little or no nature references such as this gold-toned necklace and bracelet set at Vintage Day's Etsy shop.

And that's today's Friday Finds. I hope you love the pieces as much as I do. And the photos are lovely to boot! Would love to hear about your favorite Coro pieces!

Friday Finds - Mother of Pearl (MOP)

I'm hoping to start a fun Friday series called Friday Finds. It'll be something along the lines of an Etsy Treasury, but smaller scale and always done by me.

This inaugural edition was completely serendipitous. I had just joined the Vintage Jewelry Sellers on Etsy Team, and was visiting the store of a fellow team, Vintage Treasures 4 U, when I saw this Vintage Swordfish, Mother of Pearl pin (below).

I wrote to her immediately. Those same discs, or at least very similar discs, appear in my four-leaf clover pins!

Thinking I was lucky to have discovered a similar piece to mine, I was ready to call it a day and be content. Bless Judi at Vintage Treasures 4 U, she wasn't! She soon sent me a link to our team leader's store Cranberry Manor to show me an exquisite Lisner necklace with the same MOP discs! Love it!

And that, boys and girls, is how today's Friday's Finds came to feature MOP. These precious items have a sophisticated glamour to them that is almost wholly attributed to the precious MOP discs incorporated in their designs. I'm off to see what other MOP stuff there is! What are your favorites?