New Ideas in Jewellery.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 188, 22 January 1887, Page 5

New Ideas in Jewellery.

Among new flower-pins is the pond lily, with diamond centre. In plated ware the bright-cut satin finish is still the most popular style. Circles of small opals, each surrounding a larger pearl, make pretty earrings. The newest bottles of -aromatic salts are made oi antique silver chased in Etruscan designs. For pendants on queen chains, faceted cubes, vinaigrettes, knots and odd shapes seem to be the favourite still. Bug and fly pins appear to be increasing in size, and the opal is in great requisition for the bodies of the insects. Cats' heads, made of small diamonds and placed nn a spiral wire, are among the new ornaments used for the hair. The soft will-o'-the-wisp-like glory of the fairy lamp gives a beautiful effect in the drawing-room, dining-room or conservatory. A rare new bracelet is a single narrow band of gold set with a topaz over a half inch wide and an inch long, with diamonds on each side. Opals are now used with good effect in combination with rubies or diamonds, in the popular lines of flower-pins in Roman or matted finish. Egyptian earrings made of enamelled gold in the form of snakes and ropes are in favour thiß fall. They are generally enamelled in blue and garnet. The spinel seems to be in part usurping the place hitherto occupied by the ruby as a companion gem, and in brilliancy is little ' inferior to its more costly rival. A novelty in plated ware has recently appeared—a beautiful hand repousse finish not before attempted in this grade of ware, which introduces some of the finest effects of the art in sterling flilver.