In these unusual times I hope that my newsletter finds you, your families and friends all well. Despite everything, I am managing to keep busy, and am walking to clients, standing 2 metres back, masked and collecting or delivering jewels. I’m getting very fit…one day I managed 40,867 paces (30kms)! It’s not normally this way […]

While I try to send an email every month, last month was a horrific time for so many Australians, as well as a disastrous bush fire season for Australia’s native animals. Writing about jewellery didn’t seem appropriate and this month, though the fires are virtually out, feels pretty much the same. Life though has to […]

As the year draws to a close I wanted to take this opportunity of wishing you all the compliments of the season as well as a happy, healthy and safe 2020. As many of you would know it has been a very busy year and so of late I haven’t even been able to send […]

It’s been another busy month and also some more international travel. This time to the UK to see some amazing jewels including the 49 Art Deco vanity cases of the late Freddie Mercury loaned to the V&A [https://www.vam.ac.uk/] by his sister Kashmira Bulsara. Also visits to Wartski [http://www.wartski.com/] the world authority on Faberge, the Tower […]

One of the joys of my job is to discover things that, dare I say it, most jewellers would look at and say … too hard … just put them in the melting pot! About 6 months ago I was going through a collection of old jewels and pieces of scrap that hadn’t seen the […]