After many women went to work during world war ii the wearing of costume pieces became even more prominent.
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Vintage and antique costume jewelry the first costume jewelry may have been made more than 300 years ago but many people started wearing antique and costume jewelry during the art nouveau period.
Fine jewelry is defined as jewelry that contains precious metals and often a gemstone.
Vintage applies to jewelry that is more than thirty years old which is most twentieth century jewelry.
Once jewelry hits the century mark its described as antique so the term can apply to pieces even thousands of years old though most at that age are in.
The oldest known ring was discovered in tombs in ur and they date to about 4 000 years while the oldest known necklace dates back over 110 000 years and the oldest known bracelet dates back more than 40 000 years.