COURSE
Introduction to Vintage Jewellery
- Online 1:1 Private Tuition Course
- Flexible Session times
This course has been designed and is delivered by a professional Jeweller and Design/Art history specialist
Course Description
This course is designed to help new collectors or buyers of vintage jewellery develop a more knowledgeable eye and learn the important questions to ask before buying vintage jewellery.
Finding vintage jewellery can be exciting, but how do you know what you are really looking at? What can the design tell you? Can a hallmark reveal when a piece was made?
Drawing on your tutor Zoe’s experience as a jeweller and designer, this course explores the visual characteristics of popular vintage jewellery styles from Victorian to 20th Century classics helping you recognise features that can provide useful clues when looking at vintage pieces.
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Course content also includes key factors about the fineness of gold and silver, and how British hallmarks can provide important information that can help guide when a piece was made and what metal it is made from.
Gemstone Jewellery
You will also gain a basic overview of diamonds, including shapes, cut styles and terminology giving you a better understanding of the features you may encounter when looking at diamond jewellery and what important quality questions you need to ask before making an informed decision to buy Diamond jewellery.
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And this course includes a brief overview of sapphire, emerald and ruby terminology with the opportunity to swap one of these for a favourite gemstone for inclusion within the course content.
Throughout the course, the emphasis is on developing a more knowledgeable eye for jewellery and understanding that can help you make better-informed decisions before committing to a purchase, particularly useful if you buy jewellery for resale.
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This course does not include gemmological identification methodology for Coloured Gemstones or Diamonds.
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This course is particularly useful for anyone who wants to move beyond simply knowing whether they like a piece of vintage jewellery, towards understanding what they may be looking at and the essential questions they need to ask before buying it.
Course Content
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Design Styles from Victorian to 20th Century
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Precious Metal Carat/Purity
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British Hallmarking
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Diamond features
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Ruby, Emerald and Sapphires features
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​Important Note:
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Vintage Jewellery is a very large subject area and this course delivers a brief introduction to the subject matter.
The course content is designed to be a starting point for gaining more information about Jewellery when buying or selling Vintage Jewellery. To provide an overview useful before taking more in-depth courses of interest such as Gemstone identification.
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Tutor Options
All tutors work as professional jewellers, Goldsmiths, Designers or are Jewellery Industry specialists who are willing to share their expertise and trade secrets with you.
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Advise your details on the form provided.
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At this stage this is just an enquiry with no obligation to book. We understand you may need more information.
Additional Information
How Does Online Tuition work?
Online courses are one-to-one interactive tuition delivered by the tutor via Zoom conferencing.
You will see and hear the tutor, be able to discuss course content live and view presentations/images etc as applicable.
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You join free at Zoom.us and the tutor emails you a link to join your one-to-one course session just before the agreed start time.
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You simply copy the meeting code provided in the link
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Open Zoom on your PC or Laptop
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Click join meeting and paste your meeting code into the box provided.
What is the course date?
All private tuition courses are arranged upon request on a date to suit you, subject to tutor availability.
We will provides some course dates for you to choose from or you can ask about a course date of day of the week preference.
About the Course Fee
Where more than one tutor option is advised, ccourses are priced individually because the course fee is based upon the fee a tutor charges to take a day out their industry/trade work to teach.
Booking/Payment Information
Payment is required in advance and payments are handled safely and securely by BACS Bank Transfer invoicing (IBAN SWIFT or Paypal for International students).
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Instalments
Some courses are available to pay in instalments, whereby a non-refundable deposit is required to book your course date. Please ask for details if this is of interest to you.
Booking Information
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Once you have booked a cancellation fee of *£150 will be deducted from your refund if you cancel your course up to and including 14 days prior to the start of the course once your payment has been received.
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Cancellations received within 14 days of the course date are not eligible for a refund, however you may re-arrange your course for one other date if you wish.
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Should we need to cancel your course due to unforeseen circumstances we will refund your course fee in full. Please note, travel and accommodation booked is not eligible for a refund/reimbursement, if you are worried about this we recommend you contact your own Insurer for advice.
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* Amount is variable depending on the duration and type of the course. When you enquire, out quote reply will provide the actual cancellation amount applicable. *£150 applies only to a standard one day course.