We met, we saw, we traded, we drooled.

Yesterday the first quarterly meeting of the Charmers Group of Southern California met at my place for fun food and frolic. We never even made it to the Catalogs in over 5 hours of romping through the charm collections. Pictured you will see – from left to right, Peggy.Ann, Thatspecialcharm, and cmmmt to use the […]

The Walter Lampl empty charm mystery solved

At the Charmers get together today Peggy brought her Walter Lampl vintage charm box like mine only hers has the insides! It should indeed have plastic windows and a flag inside. Hers has a much nicer mark on the bottom, where as mine has the mark on the inside lid as is earlier since it […]

Lunch and a myriad of charmers and charms

For any of you interested we are having a charmers lunch at my condo tomorrow – I’ll make the food and provide the wine and space (small though it is, and don’t expect me to clean!) It’s the first get-together of the southern California area Charmers and we plan to eat, drink, get to know […]

Lampl Mystery Charm

I bought this wonderful charm on a bracelet and it’s hallmarked sterling – the WL and shield and PAT PENDG so the question is – what was inside? Was there glass or plastic in the holes? It looks like the bundles for Britain or America charms a bit, but didn’t those have solid sides? HELP!

The Victorian Bracelet is going on the block!

Yes non-believers I really finally got it together to take the pictures and list the victorian charms and beads (ok so only 4 so far but it’s a start) from that wonderful bracelet. I admit I wore it for the Holidays, I couldn’t resist. click here to see the victorian enamel cherub heart charm then […]