Antique Gold Jewelry

As paper currencies fall, more people are investing in gold in the form of antique gold jewelry, antique wedding rings, and if they can still find them, antique gold parures.

Victorian Rose Cut Diamonds Gold Parure (Brooch-Pendant and Chandelier Earrings)

And the reason people are tuning-in to physical gold jewelry as an investment, as the world teeters on the brink of financial collapse, has nothing to do with disaster insurance. The price of gold, in the antique gold jewelry market, considers other stores of value besides the composition of gold. Stores of value such as fine craftsmanship, rarity and age.

Gold antique jewelry is an excellent form of physical gold investment. I mean, what other form of investment has a higher store of value than the gold itself? The antique store of value, of fine antique gold jewelry and premier jewelry, is often of higher monetary value than the price of gold!

Time to take a closer look in the Antique Jewelry Box, take stock of what jewellery you've tucked away in the Jewelry Armoire, forgotten about in the home lockbox, hidden around the house or buried in the yard, and take a good hard look at Antique Gold Jewelry from the gold investment point-of-view.

So you're not an economist, well, you don't have to be. Most gold investors and antique jewelry dealers aren't either. What they all have in common, is the fact that apart from being able to use a jewelers loupe ;) they each have the ability to sniff out a bargain and have acquired over the years, something that you can't put a price on - KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT.

How do you work out the quality or the re-sale value of Gold Antique Jewelry? This is a very important question which a visitor recently asked over at Antique Jewelry Investor Help Central Here.

First up, examine the piece to see if there are any hallmarks. Is that a cockerel or a tree? Was it made in Italy or Switzerland? I'm the first to admit it gets really frustrating trying to determine hallmarks, as often these marks have worn away through time and are hard to make out even if you have 20/20 vision.

That's where a jewelers loupe (magnifying glass) comes into its own. But knowing how to hold a loupe 10 x won't get you very far if you don't know what the jewelers loupe can tell you.

Click Here for an Introduction To Antique Jewelry Hallmarks.

Hallmarked gold jewelry, for example, with United Kingdom Hallmarks (UKHM) or British Hallmarks will be found only on Jewelry originating from Britain.

Antique Jewelry Investor is the first Antique Jewelry resource on the internet providing information on how to invest safely in Antique Gold Jewelry in down-to-earth language that you can understand!

The old club of Antique Jewelry dealers have known all along, that Antique Gold Jewelry has proven itself to be a gem of an investment and that there's been no other time like now where demand has been so high.

Ancient Egyptian Jewelry

Victorian Ruby and Diamond Serpent Bracelet

Antique Gold Jewelry has been around for thousands of years, it's never gone out of fashion. It never dates or fades. Just ask the Ancient Egyptians! Gold's long performance over time is no secret - it's unmatched. You just have to look at the Ancient Egyptian jewelry and the gold ornaments found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber. Gold is not just lightly dusted on the pages of Egyptian mythology and Greek mythology, the pages of classical mythology are smothered in Gold.

And they still keep finding more gold in Egypt. Recent, new discoveries in the Karnak temple have found nine cartouches made of solid gold. (courtesy of the Ancient Egypt Magazine, 'Ancient Egypt, The History, People and Culture of the Nile Valley).

From the antiquities of Ancient Egypt, the Antique Jewelry of India, to the sculptured designs of the Art Nouveau Jewelry of la belle époque, (the beautiful era) we have to admit it, we just can't seem to get enough of it.

Not sure whether to collect antique or modern gold jewelry? These facts about gold-mining should help you to decide.

And of all the influences which transformed antique gold jewelry in the nineteenth century, it was the constellation of Gold Work that you see examples of, in antique filigree gold jewelry, that was the most infuential.

The introduction of new forming techniques involving new, innovative Gold Work techniques in the Late Georgian, and Antique Victorian jewelry changed the design of jewelry forever.

Each blue arrow represents a reason to invest in gold jewelry today.

Powerful economic forces are shifting the global balance of trade. Soaring commodity prices, a plummeting dollar, the housing crisis and U.S. recession, a billion new Chinese and Indian consumers are a few of the reasons why Gold in India and China is glittering like never before.

Gold Mining that produces brand-spanking new gold jewelry is a dirty industry. Antique Gold jewelry on the other hand, causes no negative impact on our precious environment.

Not being susceptible to the fluctuations of the stocks and shares or even in the currency market, gold jewelry does not lose its value.

Victor Epand states that the current hotspot in jewelry investing is in the arena of gold jewelry. Based on recent global reports, he says, that every year there is a rise of approximately 19% in the demand for gold jewelry. This is a record breaking amount and it has been predicted to rise more in the coming years.

Antique Jewelry is transportable and then again jewelry storage a lot easier than storing gold bars.

Take a one-hundred ounce bar of silver, taking up roughly 3" by 6" by 1 1/4" or 22.5 square inches. This bar is worth about $1530 at todays spot price (August 2008).

How many bars and how much space would you need to obtain to satisfy a $100,000 purchase? You would need about 65 100 troy ounce bars and slightly over 10 cubic feet to store $100,000 in silver bars at today spot price.

Antique Jewelry is not only collectible and convertible but its worth also increases with time. In US, during 2006, the sale of gold jewelry reached 44 billion dollars.

Antique Gold Jewelry has historic and aesthetic value over and above the current gold price.

Not only have gold prices skyrocketed, but silver and platinum as well. Here's the reason why.

Gold prices are tied to the current economic impact that the sub-prime mortgage fiasco is having on the US economy. With the downward pressure on the value of the US dollar in world markets, comes an upward pressure on gold prices.

The reason is because most world currencies are based on the gold standard.

When the value of the US Dollar goes down, it costs more dollars to buy an ounce of gold on the world markets, and the US price of gold goes up. Way up. Over 300%.

The higher price of precious metals is anticipated to last for the foreseeable future.

The increase in the demand for buying gold online is directly in proportion to the growing insecurity the global community feel towards the current world monetary system.

Many people aren't aware that in 1971, the central system of organized world finance collapsed? Yes, that's right, world finance essentially crashed back in 1971.

The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed in 1944 set in place an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value in terms of gold.

This collapse of 1971, was a result of the United States' suspension of convertibility from dollars to gold. This meant that under the gold standard, bank-notes were payable in gold coins.

Until the collapse, the Bretton Woods system was a very effective means in controlling conflict and in achieving common monetary standards for the leading states that had created it.

The point is, since 1971 "Money", has had absolutely nothing substantial backing it.

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