Wondering if you would wear this pair of classy cufflinks? How would you like this pair of cufflinks with a pink cuff shirts?

Reminds me of ninja turtle cartoon...which character do you think they represent?

Kindof cute...

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About Georg Jensen

Georg Jensen, 1866-1935, belonged to the generation of artists from about 1900 who made liberal art their starting point in seeking a renewal of applied arts. After training as a goldsmith and from 1892 as a sculptor in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he opened his own silversmith's workshop in 1904. His production of brooches in the cheaper silver set with semi-precious stones and amber is characterised by the wealth of his ornamental fantasy. Leaves and flower shapes were treated with hammer blows, and the silver acquired a greyish tone through patination. His hollow ware was decorated with moulded and soldered ornamentation in the quasi-naturalistic style of the time. These characteristics also marked the products designed by associated artists. A range of well-designed hollow ware with classical shapes and subdued leaf ornamentation was created throughout the 1930s by Johan Rohde. Some of them are still in production in Georg Jensen's Workshop, which has been part of Royal Copenhagen since 1985.
Mirjam Gelfer-Jørgensen
Royal Library
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you have enjoyed the work of a silvermaster!

 

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Cuff link cases are an essential accessory for any cuff link aficionado or cuff link collector.  A cuff link case is the ideal space to organize and store your cuff links to keep them safe and clean.  There are a variety of beautiful cuff link cases suited to anyone's taste, including leather cuff link cases, teak cuff link cases, and sterling silver cuff link cases with luxurious satin and velvet linings. Cuff link cases with a clear glass top may even perform double-duty as display cases to show off your cuff link collection.

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Enjoy your day!

 

'Singles' collectors are you there? Well, I have manage to find at least 22 ways which you can obtain your matching pair of single cufflinks.

 

Would you like to read them now? I can understand your frustration when coming to find your matching piece of single or finding a missing match. The question is what it takes to find it? Well, another missing side of the pair. How it is possible it is limited made?

So much effort and time need to be invested and usually a person will give up before finding the missing 'link'. Agree?

 

 

 

1. Online Auction. With the advance in technology and popular use of the Internet acution site allows us to search for things more quickly and easily. Try auction site like eBay,Yahoo Auctions,WeBidz online auction site, buyselltrades.com, Auctionfire.com.

 

2. Forum. Join discussion forum online on cufflinks matters and participate in related topic. Or create a topic to discuss about single cufflinks. Post question on where you can find your missing 'link'.

 

3. Create Blog. You might want to create a blog just like this one. But focus on Single cufflinks exchange. Draw collectors to your sites and you are in business.

 

4. Advertise on Google Adwords. I am sure you might find this strange but what do you do if your dog went missing? You will put up notices for reward. Learn the basic on Google Adword. Basically, if you input the correct keywords, competition would be as low as 0.01 cent. Of course, you need to have a landing page (Website). Try getting a free web page like geocities.com, freewebs.com and bravenet.com. Post your single cufflinks picture,description, year of made, etc. Not difficult to do a web page nowsaday. Try it!

 

5.Talk to Experts. Yes, this is what I love doing. Learn more about your single before trying to find them. Know where to start finding is more important than just keep on finding. Experts like Gene and Derek could help you. Check out their interviews with me if you have the time.

 

 

 

8. Antique Shop. You can visit your local antique shop and browse around. Check with the shop owner if he knows anyone having a collection to sell. Some shop owner might not be willing to take those loose piece of cufflinks. They ended up at the garage sales.

 

9. Attend Cufflinkers Get Together. If your community have a get together group, join them. Usually exchange of cufflinks took place in such event. If there is none, you can always start one. No one is stopping you.

 

10. Write to Online Cufflinks Merchants.  Don't be shy to ask them. You never know if they are actually looking for a similar piece just like yours. Exchange can be done if both party agree to do a trade.

 

 

12. Magazine Advertisement. Look out for local magazine on Men's accessories. National Cuff Links Society used to run a publication call 'THE LINK'. Cufflinker would place a small picture to feature the item they wish to buy or sell. Although this publication is no longer in production but local small ads magazines are still alive. The fee is also lower when compared to newspaper advertisement.

 

13. Creative Classified Ads Online. Write creative classified adds to get cufflinks collectors to read about what you are searching for. Maybe you can write a 3 pages tips on how to store cufflinks properly.

14. Interest Sharing Web Portal. You can join interest portal like myspace.com or squdioo.com to find or create a topic on single cufflinks. You can bet collectors will start to swarm in.

15. Make a video footage of your collection. You can make a short video using your cell phone and upload in onto YOUTUBE.com. You can tell people that you are looking for 'singles' and how your cufflinks singles cufflinks look.

16. Cufflinks manufacturers. Check with the original manufacturer of your singles if it is still possible. You never know if they have a spare singles one hidden under their bed.

17. Sell on eBay. Yes. Get your singles listed on eBay. You hear me correctly. The point here is to generate the interested cufflinks collector, singles collector to come to you. Well, the detail on how to do this I wont be explaining much here. Do drop me a note if you need to know how.

18. Search outside your country. Yes. Travel out of your country to find it. While you are on holiday, you might want to check out the country garage sales or unique stores. You never know what you going to find. Ask the local for advice to locate the area best known for second hand sales.

19. Get a matching side. I am referring to a matching theme. If you are missing a side on coin, then get a matching coin side cufflinks. As to individual preference, you might find it distasteful but it is really up to your tolerance level towards your collections.

20. Offer a reward or a deal. Put on all sources that you can get hold of, a small reward for people who provide clue to finding your missing pair or special deal you can come up with. But you better check out how much does your pair of cufflinks really worth.

21. Setup a offline cufflinks club. You might to consider to setup a private cufflinks club. If you need help, perhaps I can recommend someone to you. The fastest way is to meet and talk face to face on a common interest. I am sure many would agree.

22. Place your Order. Make a similar one. This is unlikely what cufflinks collector will do but if it is a pair which is not too expensive or not worth collecting, you might as well buy a new pair and use the singles for decorative purpose.

The above are just some ways which you can use to find your matching singles. However, this list is non-exhaustive. Only your mind determine or limit the numbers of way.

Until then, next topic will be on "Excuse me, How much does it worth? Cufflinks you mean?".

 

 

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Series : Wearing It On the Sleeve

 

the huge variety of closures produced over the years," Klompus says. "Going back to the Victorian period, say 1860 to 1950, I've personally tracked at least 300 different closure devices, including tweaks on common mechanisms." Cuff buttons were usually joined by links, tiny chains, or bars, while one-sided cufflinks were anchored with swiveling toggles or the curved barbell design. But postwar designers were particularly inventive. Sculptor Alexander Calder made gold spirals that were a single solid piece, and Phillip Fike created indented cylinders of wood and gold.

There's been a longstanding division between European and American preference in cufflink styles, says Klompus. Europeans prefer double-sided links, with two matching faces joined by a chain. "With double-sided, you see the beauty of the cufflink from either side of the cuff," he notes. "Americans acknowledge that from an aesthetic standpoint, double-sided is superior, but the preference here is for the familiar toggle that rotates inside the shank."

While traveling in Europe recently, however, Klompus noticed more department stores and jewelers carrying toggle styles. "It also seems that more Americans are interested in double-sided," he notes. "Eventually, the global marketplace will probably offer cufflinks in both styles." Klompus says double-sided cufflinks are not that difficult to maneuver. "As every European knows, the secret to wearing double-sided cufflinks is to put them on before putting on the shirt ," he says. "Then you cup the hand and slide it through the sleeve." Cuffs and hands, of course, have to be the right size to accommodate this age-old maneuver.

 

We have come to the end of this series of articles and hope you have enjoyed and learned as much as you can on cufflinks.

I have prepared another article "22 Ways to Find Your Matching Single Cufflinks" rediscover your single cufflinks again. Cheers! Talk to you tomorrow morning!

To be continue ... watch for next posting.

Cathleen McCarthy, a Philadelphia freelance writer, specializes in articles about jewelry design, collectibles, retailing, and travel.

 

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Series : Wearing It On the Sleeve
By Cathleen McCarthy

 

 

During the late 1800s, when fashionable huntsmen wore cravats and starched shirts when they followed the hounds, equestrian cufflinks were produced in great numbers. Gold hunting horn cuff buttons were popular, and Cartier offered a pair of agate cameos carved with images of horse and rider. A pair of cufflinks made of moonstones carved into jockey caps was sold recently at New York 's A La Vieille Russie.

The sporting life continued throughout the Edwardian and art deco eras with hunt scenes enameled on gold and painted on reverse intaglio. A pair of white gold cufflinks from 1910 features tiny fishing flies set beneath cabochon crystals. By 1920, Chaumet was turning out enameled motorcars studded with diamonds and rubies.

Perhaps the most famous novelty cufflinks—and the most sought-after among collectors—are the nuts-and-bolts pair designed by Paul Flato. The prototype links were actual brass nuts and bolts that Flato had hastily screwed into his cuffs after failing to locate a real pair before a society ball in the 1930s. Bandleader Eddie Duchin noticed them and commissioned Flato to make him a set in gold. They proved enormously popular, and Flato made several more over the years.

Collecting cufflinks. Perhaps because the type of jewelry available to men is limited, those who collect cufflinks often collect obsessively. In terms of quantity, few can beat Klompus, who owns nearly 40,000 pairs. New York stockbroker Derek Anastasia chooses to specialize—his comprehensive collection of enameled cufflinks numbers 1,460 pairs. When he began working on Wall Street, where snappy dressing is encouraged (as are ostentatious displays of wealth), Anastasia was exposed often to fine cufflinks and soon began coveting his own. They've proved to be a sound investment. He says the cufflinks purchased for an initial outlay of $20,000 are now valued at close to $500,000.

Like any collectible, cufflinks are most valuable when they're in good condition and have a written record of provenance or connection to famous people or events. "Needless to say, that would include anything owned by the Duke of Windsor or the kings of England," Klompus says. Add to that kind of provenance the name "Fabergé," "Tiffany," or "Cartier" and you have yourself a museum piece.

Limited-edition cufflinks connected to a war or a world's fair bring big prices. The prize of Klompus's collection is a pair owned by Kaiser Wilhelm before he fled Germany at the outbreak of WWI. The bulky links are platinum and 24k gold enameled with a "W" and family crest. "A rather ostentatious pair, to say the least," Klompus acknowledges. With their written provenance and original box, they're worth about $50,000, he estimates.

Function limits cufflinks' form and size, but makers have been remarkably versatile in devising link mechanisms. "What's really unusual about cufflinks is

 

To be continue ... watch for next posting.

Cathleen McCarthy, a Philadelphia freelance writer, specializes in articles about jewelry design, collectibles, retailing, and travel.

 

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Series : Wearing It On the Sleeve

 

 

To be continue ... watch for next posting.

Cathleen McCarthy, a Philadelphia freelance writer, specializes in articles about jewelry design, collectibles, retailing, and travel.

Adwin Ang

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Series : Wearing It On the Sleeve

 

Antique links. Some of the best antique cufflinks come from a time when a well-dressed gent wouldn't appear in public without the proper accoutrements on his sleeve. Cufflinks have always reflected trends in jewelry design and fashion. Europe's fascination with archaeology and Eastern exoticism in the 1800s gave birth to cufflinks with Egyptian motifs and mosaics as well as carved gemstone scarabs.

By the Victorian era, mass production and greater distribution of wealth made cufflinks de rigueur even for the expanding middle class, and women were no exception. Sets of studs and matching links were required for the starched shirts both sexes favored at the time.

By the end of the 19th century, precious gems were being imported from previously untapped sources—opals from Australia , rubies from Burma, sapphires from India, and diamonds from South Africa. Men were quick to buy them for women but slower to wear them. By the end of the century, however, emeralds and diamonds were appearing with color-coordinated enameling.

The fin de siècle saw the British arts & crafts and French art nouveau design movements arrive on the scene. In England , this meant cufflinks from Liberty & Co. with silver and enamel Celtic swirls, and in Paris, opalescent plique à jour enameling and Lalique's sensuous nudes in carved glass.

Meanwhile, the house of Fabergé was perfecting what has become a perennial favorite, the guilloche cufflink—rich translucent enamel over a symmetrical engine-turned pattern. It was the same process Fabergé used on its famous eggs and involved a simple but well-kept secret process that other jewelry houses eventually picked up. Guilloche designs became increasingly intricate.

When the dashing King Edward took the English throne in 1901, his taste for bright colors (especially red) at neck and wrist soon caught on. The Edwardian era (1901-1910) brought a sophisticated playfulness to menswear, and sapphires, emeralds, and, above all, rubies and diamonds began to appear in cufflinks.

Art deco introduced a casual elegance and symmetrical, modernist designs. In his shop in New York's Trump Tower, Stephen Russell favors links from the Jazz Age. "Victorian cufflinks are harder to find," Russell says. "And they were not as tailored as deco ones. Most of the cufflinks here are from the '20s and '30s. Everybody then wore cufflinks and studs. Asian designs were popular. Big houses like Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels used motifs like the yin-yang symbol—black and white, very clean—or the Chinese symbol for good luck, back-to-back 'Cs.' "

The Depression made the cufflink primarily an article of the leisure class. For the first time in a century, links and studs no longer were required at every social function. Yet the Jazz Age produced some of the most coveted and timeless

 

Cathleen McCarthy, a Philadelphia freelance writer, specializes in articles about jewelry design, collectibles, retailing, and travel.

Adwin Ang

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