Additional Information

Hand Made Jewellery

Beautiful, sexy, silver jewellery with unique designs hand-crafted with care and attention in India. All items have been legally imported from India and have had import duty paid on them.

Sterling Silver

Every piece is made only with hallmarked sterling silver, minimum 92.5% pure silver. Sterling silver is a well-known standard for silver. Pure silver (also known as fine silver) is too soft for use as jewellery. Sterling silver, with 92.5% silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper, has been known for hundreds of years as the best silver alloy for producing beautiful pieces with that sought-after silver sheen but also with durability. Some of the pieces on this site are simply silver, others contain semi-precious stones. 

Silver

Silver is the best conductor of heat of any metal. Next to gold, it is also the most malleable and ductile metal known. It is believed that most sources of easily extractable gold have been found and exploited and that gold will inevitably rise in price as it becomes necessary to extract it from more difficult sources. This means that your silver jewellery will increase in value over the years.

Gemstones

A gemstone is any naturally occurring material that is considered valuable. Every specimen is judged on its own merits, for instance,  not all diamonds are precious, some are used as abrasives and cutting tools in industry.  Diamond is the hardest known natural substance.

Semi Precious Stones

Awesome Purple Amethyst, Beautiful Blue or Clear Topaz, Cinchy Amber Citrine, Perfect Green Peridot, Scintillating Dark Blue Iolite and Ruby-red Garnet adorn many of the pieces. Choose your favourites by colour to match your favourite clothing or by your birth date or for their crystal properties.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a form of rock crystal. It is purple and is the  birthstone for February.

Citrine

Citrine is the clear yellow or golden form of the mineral quartz and is related to amethyst - the purple form of quartz, and rock crystal - the colourless variety.

Garnet

The name Garnet  means "red", which is the colour of many varieties, though some are green, yellow, dark red, orange, brown or black.

Iolite

Iolite is a violet tinged blue gemstone, also known as water sapphire because of its resemblance to this precious form of corundum.

Peridot

Peridot is a characteristically olive green colour gemstone.

Topaz

Topaz can be clear, yellow, pink or blue. It is the birthstone for Sagittarius. Colourless topaz appears very like diamond.

Hallmarking

Hallmarks are thought to be the earliest form of consumer protection, at least in the UK anyway. They date back to the time of King Edward III in the 14th century when a Royal Charter was granted in 1327 to the 'Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of the Goldsmiths of the City of London' and were created to assure customers that the gold or silver they were buying was of the quality they expected. (This was an old problem - if you remember back to your Greek history, Archimedes, who died in 212BC was able to show that the King's crown had been made from a mixture of gold and silver, rather than pure gold.) Current law says that silver items over 7.78gms in weight being sold in the UK must be hallmarked by one of the independent Assay offices. All items over 7.78gms in weight sold on this site have been hallmarked by the Assay Office, as required by law.