As with antique furniture or fine artwork, a variety of factors help determine the value of antique jewelry. When it comes time to having your antique jewelry appraised and possibly sold, you want to ...

Finding beautiful antique rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets to sell for a profit gives you the thrill of handling jewelry with lots of history. Most antique jewelry was created at least 100 ...

Before the 1900s, most jewelry was not widely available to the general public in the U.S. because it was made of precious metals and gems. This left an opening for beautiful low-cost costume jewelry ...

Whether you are selling diamonds, gold, an engagement ring or other fine jewelry, or vintage or costume jewelry, you may ...

While costume jewelry often gets short shrift compared to precious stones and metals, vintage jewelry sellers reap the benefits of this misconception. It turns out that there is much value to be found ...

If you've got jewelry that's just not your style, selling it could actually pay off big time. Getting top dollar is all about understanding the best ways to sell jewelry, especially when you're ...

We all have that one piece of jewelry we inherited from our grandmothers or picked up on a whim at an antique shop that we don't know the full history about. Sure, we may have an idea of when it was ...

Now in his 14th year as a jewelry appraiser for "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS, Peter Shemonsky is the expert that other gem aficionados call when they are stumped. After a long career buying, selling and ...

The cost of a piece from the past won’t reflect the recent steep rise in gold prices, and the weak U.S. dollar may help international buyers, too. By Tanya Dukes The jewelry industry has been having a ...