The best Vintage & Antique jewelry bead & findings sources I have found, gleaned through many hours of page clicking headache.
Where To Buy Vintage Jewelry Supplies Online
Stores Selling Quality (New Old Stock or Old Stock) Vintage Beads, Findings, & Stones At Reasonable Prices
These stores were chosen based on quality of the beads, price, variety, and ease of browsing, searching, and shopping.
Splendor In The Glass
My favorite! Excellent variety & choices, more...3 points
Earthly Adornments
Beautiful choices, well designed website, good pri more...2 points
The Beadin' Path
Overpriced, but good variety, especially in lucite more...2 points
Vintage Beads, Vintage Swarovski Crystals, Pendants, Coral &more... - Estate Beads
Estate Beads is the premiere online supplier of vi more...2 points
Jan's Jewelry Supplies
Great prices and products, confusing website but w more...1 point
Sunset Crystals (Australia)
Vintage section, usually per bead price. Overprice more...1 point
Wholesale Vintage Beads | Wholesale Beads | Swarovski Beads
(Editor's Note: serious lack of information about more...1 point
Vintage Crystal Beads
Higher prices, and a smaller but unusual vintage s more...0 points
Ozzy Beads
Slightly higher prices, but have a unique selectio more...0 points
A Grain of Sand
Some vintage beads & findings. Expensive but s more...0 points
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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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) 
BEADERS TOOL KIT
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 11/25/2009)
Professional Jewelry Crafting Series DVD Collection
Amazon Price: (as of 11/25/2009)
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)
1000 Ft. Bronze Beadalon Spools
Lovely color to go with vintage brass beads & findings.
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JW18Z-8 .013" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW10Z-8 .015" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW11Z-8 .018" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW12Z-8 .024" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW21Z-8 .036" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
JW18Z-8 .013" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW10Z-8 .015" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
.018"
JW11Z-8 .018" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
.024"
JW12Z-8 .024" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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JW21Z-8 .036" Beadalon 49-Strand Bronze 1000 ft spool Bronze nylon coated stainless steel wire
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)
Fabulous Fakes: A Passion for Vintage
Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 11/25/2009)
The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present (Beadwork Books)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/25/2009)
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- Intuitive Intuitive Oct 7, 2009 @ 7:43 am
- A lensmaster after my own heart...someone who weeds out the junk from search results. 5*
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- LeftHandMan LeftHandMan Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
- I'm glad I found your site. Although I don't use findings as much as I used to in my collages, I'm sure you will be hearing from me.
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- Wysiwigs Wysiwigs Mar 29, 2009 @ 5:24 am
- Great lens ~ I'm bookmarking it to come back to check out the sites (and thanks for the resource!) I'm not a jewelry designer per se, but I do make some from time to time so this is very handy information - 5*
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- A lot of my customers are jewelry designers, I will put your link to my website at vicalla.com so it will be useful information for them.
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