I always wondered what Anniversary is a Car….

I love this page showing the correct charm present for each anniversary, my favorite is the New York Times for the first -Paper.

Has anyone seen this phone booth?

No kidding it moves like a real one to open (for those of us old enough to remember phone booths, when not everyone had a cell phone from birth – where the heck does Superman change now anyway?) In this copy from the 1971 Love and Marriage section of Marchal’s catalog I found a charm […]

Tiffany’s Secret of the Heart

As I mentioned before I’ve been very impressed with the new Tiffany & Co. charm collection – they have lots of styles just out, and one in particular I have to tell you about because it reminds me of the old vintage sense of humor in charms. It isn’t on the web site yet: http://www.tiffany.com […]

School Days School Days Dear Old Golden Rule Days etc…

Vintage charm school styles from the 1971catalog

What Mothers and Grandmothers were wearing in 1971

Charms were the best things for the gift challenged male – he just ducked into the local jewelers and popped out with the latest thing in wrist glitz for the woman in his life – simple in the ’70’s and just as simple today, if you don’t have a favorite local jeweler there are plenty […]