The Best Sites To Buy Vintage Beads, Stones, & Findings Online

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The best Vintage & Antique jewelry bead & findings sources I have found, gleaned through many hours of page clicking headache.

About A Few Of The Stores Listed... 

Splendor In The Glass
Well designed site with easy navigation. Beautiful selection and prices. This is the kind of bead site you come back to just to see the pretties. Antique & vintage Swarovski, Czech, Japanese, Art Deco & Art Nouveau beads, pendants, hat pin tops, findings, & stones (cabochons).

Site search engine and Product Index

MC/V, AmEx, PayPal
Eartly Adornments
Earthly Adornments has vintage beads & findings catagorized broadly by Color, Material, & Type of Findings.
Antique & Vintage Jewelry catagorized by Era, Material, Style, & Type.
Randomly wonderful selection of items, the prices are OK, and the website is well done if not updated enough.
Earthly Adornments Site Map
MC/V, PayPal
Jan's Jewelry Supplies
Great findings, stones, and prices.
Another messy site that requires a lot of back button use to navigate, but worth it.
A complete site workover with an eye to navigation, and seperating out the vintage from the contemporary, would make this the "check here first" site for me.
Jewelry Making Instructions / Projects
Jewelex
The website is a headache if you try to go in through the front, so I've given you the super secret backdoor entrance. The prices are higher than I like, and the website is not well laid out, but the selection extensive with a helpful ruler in many of the pictures.

Patience is required to get through the site.

MC/V, Disc, AmEx, eCheck, PayPal
The Beadin' Path
Easy navigation, good selection, but overpriced.
Worth the visit:
Vintage Cabochons ~ Better prices than the rest of the site, and a wide variety of funky lucite cabs.
Antique Nail Heads ~ Yum.
Vintage Lucite Beads ~ Mostly. Again, I feel that mixing vintage and contemporary beads on the same page is a mistake.
Ozzy Beads
Vintage Glass Beads, Vintage Lucite Beads, Vintage and Bohemian Buttons, Vintage Pendants and Charms, Vintage Focal Beads.
PayPal, V/MC, Amex, Discover.
Vintage Crystal Beads
Vintage Swarovski, Discontinued Swarovski,
Vintage Lucite Trumpet Beads, Findings & Chain.
V/MC, Check, Money Order.

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Vintage Jewelry Findings 

Used, recycled, and NOS (New Old Stock) findings.

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Tools For Jewels 

(SE) Triplet Jeweler's Loupe - 30X

Amazon Price: (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

BEADERS TOOL KIT

Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

Useful Jewelry Links 

Free Online Or Downloadable Tools For Jewelry Makers & Buyers

Free Jeweler's Assistant Software
Free software download that converts old jewelers' measurements such as pearl plate and stone size into millimeters and inches. Calculator and bead estimation worksheet included.
Stone Size Conversion Chart
Online conversion chart at Jan's Jewelry Supplies for pearl plate (PP) and stone size (SS).
Authenticating Miriam Haskell Pieces
A short overview of how to spot a Miriam Haskell.
Vintage Antique Jewelry Research Information Articles
Online source for Vintage Costume and Antique Jewelry Research Information. Find articles on buying, dating, identifying, cleaning, care, value and history of vintage and antique jewelry

SoftFlex Soft Touch Beading Wire For Tiny Antique Beads 

Beautiful, flexible, and fitting for beautiful vintage beads and findings.

Soft Touch Seed Bead Stringing Cord 3-Spools

Amazon Price: $31.38 (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

About Vintage Jewelry... 

A little history of beads to get you going.

Miriam Haskell Jewelry (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Amazon Price: (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

Fabulous Fakes: A Passion for Vintage

Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present (Beadwork Books)

Amazon Price: (as of 11/25/2009) Buy Now

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