News — vintage jewellery

  Big Autumn Charm Drop Lots of new listings added to the website today (October 12th 2026) including gold, silver, enamel and some non precious pieces too. 

Last Recommended Christmas Posting Dates 2025 Here are the recommended last posting dates for Royal Mail. Australia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Sweden Friday 5th Dec New Zealand, Poland, Spain and UAE Monday 8th Dec Austria & Denmark Wednesday 10th Dec USA & Canada Friday 12th Dec  France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore and Switzerland Monday 15th Dec UK Royal Mail Tracked 24 Monday 22nd Dec Special Delivery Tuesday 23rd Dec If you have passed your date and desperately need something for Christmas please drop me a line as there may be an alternative courier...

I am taking a short break from the 20th August to the 25th August 2025. No orders will be sent during this period. I will be back in the office from the 26th August with lots of treasures to list.  Best wishes, Sandy xx

Spooky season has landed on Sandy’s Vintage Charms with a huge selection of vintage and secondhand silver charms.  All listed on the website now.Best wishes,Sandy xx

The humble bean .... from broad beans, to baked beans, from edamame to kidney beans. They come in all different sizes and colours but what made them lucky? Imagine 500 or 600 years ago you are walking along a beach and find a strange nut like object you have never seen before. Unbeknown to you, you have just found a sea bean. It could have drifted for weeks or months and travelled hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles from an exotic land.    Sea beans were seeds from giant pods found in the Caribbean and North & South America. They drifted...