Soviet vintage costume jewelry

Soviet vintage costume jewelry
First of all, there were no private jewelry workshops in the Soviet Union, at least officially registered. Instead, there were state-owned jewelry workshops and factories producing both expensive and costume jewelry. Traditionally, the vintage jewelry market offers products from the Ural, Leningrad, Shcherbinsky metal haberdashery and jewelry factories. Also, products of the Soviet republics that were once part of a single country called the USSR. In particular, the products of the Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR), Tallinn (Estonian SSR) factories, the Yerevan experimental plant “Souvenir” (Armenian SSR), and others.
Formed on the basis of a workshop at the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers, Sverdlovsk Jewelry Factory was one of the most significant and important factories. The craftsmen made jewelry from silver and gold with jasper, rhodonite, corundum and other gems and precious stones.
The Amber Factory of the city of Kaliningrad was and remains famous producer of amber jewelry. Also, Veliky Ustyug and the Severnaya Chern factory produced exquisite museum worth wearable art jewelry.
Noteworthy, Soviet jewelry designers preferred to use natural gems and semi-precious stones instead of rhinestones, or art glass imitating gems.

Soviet vintage costume jewelry