A Bit about Vittori & Hive…Established in 2021…

Hoping to break even some time in the 2030’s

Vittori & Hive was started as a project. It continues to be a project!

We are essentially creating an inventory of vintage jewellery we deem to be interesting. This may be due to an unusual gemstone, or an unusual design that you do not see all the time.

We call it a curated list of select Vintage Jewellery & Rare Gemstones. Vittori & Hive are discovering new treasures daily.

We are not in it for the money. It often feels like the exact opposite. We call our customers Allies – we are working together to find the best Vintage Jewellery out there. Everyone is happy!

A Brief History in our Vintage Jewellery discoveries…

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2020 (some time in lockdown)

Hive buys some fancy faceted Topaz & Amethyst, to keep one of his sons amused (whilst trying to teach him something). It is lockdown & no schools are open.

Hive then begins trying jewellery findings, so he has a place for the gemstones, after his sone has finished looking at them. A very difficult thing to achieve.

Old friend Vittori gets involved. He realises that Hive is going to be spending a lot of money obtaining specimen gemstones, that will essentially be useless unless easily turned into jewellery.

21st February 2021

Vittori starts buying Vintage Jewellery, specifically with unusual gemstones.  There are a lot of special gemstones around, but not in new jewellery.

Antique Jewellery is too expensive and modern Jewellery is too limited in its scope / sterile.

By now both Vittori & Hive are studying Gemmology with the International Gem Society.

28th March 2021

We buy our first Emerald ring!

19th July 2021

We are gonna need a bigger boat! It becomes apparent that Vittori & Hive are going to need to sell some jewellery items onto new owners. After we have had our chance to examine under microscopes etc

Vittori opens an Etsy shop, with the intention of reselling our discoveries.