Small ring. Big comeback.

Crafted with extraordinary detail, this vintage ring channels the elegance of Edwardian design through a bold 1930s–40s revival lens. At its heart is a marquise-cut aquamarine in sky-washed blue—held in an eight-prong mount that gently cradles the stone at both tips and sides, keeping those sharp marquise points safe and sound.

Stamped 18K N.B., it likely hails from a small U.S. workshop creating revival pieces for customers who still wanted their jewelry to say something. With its hand-pierced gallery, scroll-and-leaf filigree shoulders, and unapologetic presence, she’s proof that small doesn’t mean subtle.

• Ring Size: 2 (not recommended for resizing due to construction) perfect for pinky or midi ring

• Metal: 18K White Gold (stamped 18K N.B.)

• Stone: Approx. 2.1ct marquise-cut natural aquamarine

• Markings: 18K N.B.

• Origin: USA, Edwardian Revival (c. 1930s–40s)

• Condition: Excellent vintage condition

• Weight: 2.46g

Your piece will arrive in RetroStarr’s signature gift box—ready to gift, wear, or pass down.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA-trained founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Somebody, at some point, found her unforgettable.

By the early 20th century, lockets had started shifting away from the heavier mourning jewelry and elaborate symbolism of the Victorian era. The best examples became more tailored and personal instead. Less about spectacle, more about carrying a private world with you. Initials mattered. Photographs mattered. The object itself became more refined in design, but sharper in intention.

This antique gold filled locket features crisp engine-turned engraving surrounding an ornate gothic-style “M” monogram, with original photographs still tucked carefully inside. The balance between the decorative front and smooth satin-finished back gives the piece an especially wearable feel today. Warm, personal, and just structured enough to layer easily with modern chains.

Details

• Era: Late Victorian / Early Edwardian c. 1910s–1920s
• Material: Gold Filled
• Hallmarks: Marked 1/20 10k GF
• Size: Approx. 1 inch diameter
  
• Interior: Retains original photographs
• Style Notes: Especially good layered into modern chain stacks where the monogram reads more like a private joke than a formal heirloom
• Condition: Excellent antique condition with crisp engraving, strong hinge function, and light surface wear consistent with age. Original interior photographs remain intact.

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Your piece will arrive carefully packaged in RetroStarr signature wrapping, ready for gifting or keeping entirely for yourself.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Proof that personal jewelry ages better than personal men.

She arrives with former initials that no one can quite place and the confidence of someone who never needed introductions. Warm gold tone, elegant script engraving, and a perfectly sized round silhouette give this locket the kind of presence that works with everything and explains nothing.

W.B.H. Co. made pieces for the women who understood that sentiment could still look sharp. Turn-of-century in origin and endlessly current in attitude, she layers beautifully with chains, collars, and anything that benefits from a little mystery. The reverse carries signs of time, exactly as it should.

Details
• Era: Late Victorian to Edwardian, c. 1895–1915
• Maker: W.B.H. Co.
• Material: Gold filled
• Markings: W.B.H. Co. inside
• Shape: Round domed locket
• Size: Approx. 1 in. diameter
• Engraving: Script initials, likely EWE
• Condition: Good antique condition with age-appropriate wear; visible scratches to the reverse; opens and closes securely

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Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Black onyx, bright gold, and a single curve of light held in a narrow frame.

A small piece with strong presence, this charm reads like a miniature emblem carved from shadow and gold. The flat onyx face creates a deep backdrop while the raised leafwork and seed pearls arc across the surface in a clean, graphic line. It feels architectural and symbolic at once — compact, deliberate, and shaped to catch the eye without asking for attention.

Set in solid 14k gold, the charm reflects the midcentury return to Victorian motifs, when jewelers reinterpreted dark-ground tablets and applied gold forms through a more modern lens. The seed pearls soften the geometry, the beaded base adds quiet dimension, and the overall silhouette remains streamlined enough for everyday wear. A small keepsake with a crisp, confident profile.

Details

• Era: Midcentury Victorian Revival

• Origin: Unknown

• Metal: 14k yellow gold

• Gemstones: Seed pearls; onyx tablet

• Size: (3/4 in x 3/6 in

• Style: Victorian Revival charm

• Hallmarks: None

• Condition: Clean vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age

It must have felt impossible to miss at gaslight distance.

This brooch plays with direction and contrast. A crescent moon curves inward while a shooting star cuts across the composition, its gold rays flaring with confidence. The silhouette is light but intentional, designed to read clearly even at a restrained scale.

Crafted in 10K gold and set with seed pearls, this antique celestial brooch dates to the late Victorian to early Edwardian period, when crescent moons and stars appeared throughout jewelry as symbols of guidance, longing, luck, and protection. The open crescent form, elongated rays, and restrained use of pearls give the piece a remarkably graphic silhouette that still feels strikingly modern more than a century later.

Details

• Size: 1.75 x 1 inches

• Metal: 10k Rose Gold

• Stone: Seed pearls

• Era: Late Victorian to Early Edwardian, c. 1890s–1910s

• Condition: Clean vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age. Tube and wire hinge and steel pinback shows mild waviness from age and use.

Your piece will arrive carefully packaged in RetroStarr presentation wrapping, ready for gifting, collecting, or immediate wear.

Please Note: Jewelry box, chains, styling props, and any additional items shown in photos are for display purposes only unless specifically listed as included.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Not where she said she’d be.

Very few people seemed surprised by this. By that point, the situation had settled into something closer to pattern than exception.

Centered with a carved black onyx intaglio depicting Mercury, the Roman messenger god associated with travel, commerce, and swift exits, this antique gold filled watch fob was originally worn from a gentleman’s chain during the late Victorian to Edwardian period. Worn now as a pendant, the piece keeps all of its original sharpness. The dark onyx, sculptural setting, and mythological profile give it a clean graphic presence that lands somewhere between heirloom, signet, and after-hours accessory.

Details

• Era: Late Victorian to Edwardian, circa 1890–1915
• Material: Gold Filled
• Stone: Black onyx intaglio (tested)
• Motif: Mercury / Hermes profile, carved 
• Size: Approximately 1 inch diameter
• Style: Antique watch fob pendant
• Condition: Excellent antique condition with beautifully preserved carving detail and rich contrast between the black onyx and warm gold filled setting

Please Note: Jewelry box, chains, styling props, and any additional items shown in photos are for display purposes only unless specifically listed as included.

Your piece will arrive carefully packaged in RetroStarr presentation wrapping, ready for gifting, collecting, or immediate wear.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

The shortest distance was never the point.

There was usually a cleaner, more obvious route available. She ignored it almost immediately. The angle, the timing, the silhouette of the thing mattered more than arriving quickly ever did.

Crafted in Taxco, Mexico and marked TM-72, Mexico, 925, this substantial midcentury modernist brooch pairs sculptural sterling silver with a polished black onyx cabochon in a composition that feels simultaneously architectural and kinetic. The elongated asymmetrical form creates striking movement across a lapel, collar, or structured garment, while the dark onyx anchors the piece with a sharp graphic contrast characteristic of Mexican modernist silverwork from the period. Large enough to command attention without overwhelming, it carries the kind of confident restraint that made Taxco design so enduringly influential.

Details

• Era: Midcentury Modern, c. 1960s–1970s
• Origin: Taxco, Mexico
• Material: Sterling Silver (.925)
• Stone: Black onyx cabochon (tested)
• Hallmarks: TM-72, Mexico, 925
• Size: Approximately 2 x 3 3/4 inches
• Style: Modernist sculptural brooch
• Condition: Excellent vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age. Onyx remains beautifully polished and intact. Pin assembly functions securely.
• Styling Notes: Striking worn vertically on a blazer lapel, horizontally at the shoulder, or pinned to structured outerwear, scarves, or bags

Please Note: Jewelry box, chains, styling props, and any additional items shown in photos are for display purposes only unless specifically listed as included.

Your piece will arrive carefully packaged in RetroStarr presentation wrapping, ready for gifting, collecting, or immediate wear.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Solid links, a single clasp, and nothing left undecided.

This bracelet is built around intention. Articulated sterling links move with weight and rhythm, finishing in a heart-shaped lock that reads graphic rather than sentimental. The scale is balanced, the profile clean, and the closure does the talking. It wears with quiet authority on the wrist, deliberate in both form and function.

Crafted in solid sterling silver and fully hallmarked for London with a 1976 date letter, the piece reflects the late-modernist direction of British silver in the mid-1970s. The heart lock serves as both focal point and anchor, turning a familiar symbol into a structural element. It’s a design that values clarity over ornament, chosen for its decisiveness rather than decoration.

Details

• Era: British Late Modernist, c. 1976

• Origin: United Kingdom

• Metal: Sterling silver

• Bracelet Size: 7.25 inches

• Style: Link bracelet with heart lock clasp

• Hallmarks: London assay marks with date letter B for 1976

• Condition: Clean vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age

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Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

A golden orbit paused mid-flight.

A small study in midcentury lift-off. The spiral curves like an orbital path, while three slender rods rise in clean vertical motion. It carries that 1950s belief that the future could be engineered — a little ambition shaped in gold.

Handmade in Israel and marked with the lyre hallmark, the brooch blends sculptural confidence with small, deliberate bursts of color. Each stone sits like a signal light, echoing the early synthetics favored by Israeli workshops of the era. The result is crisp modernist geometry with an unmistakably optimistic posture.

Details

• Era: Midcentury 1950s to 1960s

• Origin: Israel, lyre assay 585 hallmark present

• Metal: 14K yellow gold

• Gemstones: Multicolor round stones, likely synthetic ruby, sapphire, pearl, and emerald, consistent with era

• Size: Approximately 2¼ in x 1⅛ in

• Hallmarks: lyre assay mark and 14K stamp

• Weight: 4.56 g

• Style: Modernist brooch

• Condition: Clean, crisp vintage condition. The faux pearl shows light wear to the nacre consistent with age. Structure solid. Original finish present.

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Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Space, style, symmetry.

A little midcentury physics, a little gallery-level glam. This striking vintage bangle features a sculptural orbit of polished spheres on an oval hinged band. Clean lines meet kinetic energy—exactly the kind of bracelet that plays well with power moves and minimalist stacks alike.

Crafted in sterling silver and stamped 925 with the TO-02 Taxco artisan mark, this piece hails from Mexico’s renowned silversmith tradition, known for bold geometry and high style. The hinge opens cleanly for easy wear and a secure fit.

This one doesn’t just circle back. It commands the whole equation.

DETAILS:

• Era: Midcentury Modern (likely 1960s–70s)
• Origin: Mexico (Taxco, TO-02)
• Metal: Sterling Silver (marked 925)
• Gemstone(s): None
• Size: 2 5/16” wide x 2 1/8” long inner dimensions
  
• Style: Hinged modernist bangle
• Condition: Very good vintage condition with light surface wear consistent with age

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Wear it when you’re feeling magnetic.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA-trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Small, sharp, and dressed for a better lapel.

This 14k gold seed pearl bar brooch has the sleek little silhouette that made early 20th-century jewelry so useful: polished enough for a collar, scarf, lapel, or chain conversion, but still delicate enough to layer without making a scene.

The elongated form is set with rows of seed pearls across the front, giving it a soft glow against the warm 14k gold frame. It reads Edwardian into early Art Deco, with that useful bar pin shape collectors love because it can go classic, clever, or completely unexpected.

Details
• Era: Edwardian to early Art Deco, c. 1910s–1920s
• Metal: 14k gold
• Markings: Marked 14k
• Stones: Seed pearls
• Weight: 3.36g
• Measurements: 1.5 in. long
• Closure: Pin back with safety catch
• Condition: Good antique condition with age-appropriate surface wear; seed pearls appear intact; clasp functions as intended

Please Note
Jewelry box, chains, styling props, and any additional items shown in photos are for display purposes only unless specifically listed as included.

Arrives in RetroStarr packaging, ready for gifting or keeping for yourself.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.

Victorian pockets were considerably more interesting.

By the 1890s, small personal objects had become part of getting dressed properly. Watch fobs, lockets, stamps, keys, coins, pencils, and little gold filled cases traveled together through coat pockets and handbags with near-constant use. The best examples weren’t overly decorative. They were simply well made, familiar to the hand, and carried often enough to earn their wear honestly.

This late Victorian gold filled watch fob locket features a softly squared silhouette with hand-etched floral engraving across the front and a warm aged finish throughout. The shape gives it a more compact, tailored feeling than many Victorian lockets from the same period, while the engraving adds just enough ornament to keep the piece feeling personal rather than formal.

Details

• Era: Late Victorian, c. 1890s
• Material: Gold Filled
• Hallmarks: None observed
• Size: Approx. 1 1/8 inches long x 1 inch across
• Style Notes: Especially strong layered with heavier chains or worn alone as a small object-like pendant with a little history behind it
• Condition: Very good antique condition with light surface wear and warm aged patina throughout. Interior and hinge remain intact and functional.

Please Note: Jewelry box, chains, styling props, and any additional items shown in photos are for display purposes only unless specifically listed as included.

Your piece will arrive carefully packaged in RetroStarr signature wrapping, ready for gifting or keeping entirely for yourself.

Curated by Dana Sednek, GIA trained jewelry professional and founder of RetroStarr, where each jewel is hand selected for its past lives and future attitude.