Soviet gold jewelry

In the 1990s, all "thinking intelligent people" began to scold absolutely everything that was Soviet. They carried the way of life of the Soviet people and almost all spheres of life, including fashion, the beauty industry and jewelry. Fashion and cosmetics in the USSR in fact, they were a sad sight, and with gold and silver jewelry things were much better.

Even now, on the Internet, you can find many publications ridiculing the quality and style of Soviet jewelry. Just before condemning and ridiculing, one must remember that then there was a different fashion, different ideas about the beauty of jewelry and other possibilities. In Soviet times, a lot was different, but the decorations were not so bad, and many of them are quite relevant in our time.

The design of most Soviet jewelry is inferior to high-quality jewelry of our time, but foreign jewelry of those years also differs from modern, because jewelers acquired new technologies and equipment, and in addition, ideas about jewelry design have changed. It is important to note that Soviet jewelry is superior to many foreign products. It is easy to find out from old jewelers who have had to deal with a wide variety of jewelry.

In addition to the quality of products, many gold purchases are much more willing to buy scrap gold products of precisely Soviet and Russian origin than Turkish and other jewelry, due to the difference in the ligature of the gold alloy.

Therefore, jewelry of the Soviet era can be excellent accessories for those who like to experiment with looks and create looks using vintage items. Just do not think that Soviet jewelry will soon become antique and will be more valuable than simple modern gold. There are still too many of these ornaments, and only rarity is valued.

In the 1990s, the idea of ​​jewelry changed. Massive gold jewelry - heavy chains, watches with gold bracelets, seals and crosses - began to be a sign of success. To create these products, a huge number of thin chains, wedding rings and other adornments of the Soviet and pre-revolutionary period were melted down.

In addition to jewelry, orders were melted down. Most often, jewelers melted the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. These are not rumors and speculation, but reality. I personally know jewelers who melted dozens of orders in a month!

Years passed, massive jewelry became a sign of bad taste. Today, few people wear a thick gold chain and a huge spider signetMost of those cool guys from the 1990s now have marble and granite decorations. Where have their gold chains and crosses gone? Many items were melted down by jewelers again, and something is in safes and bank cells, other things remained in hiding places, and are waiting for their new owner.

Gold can change shape and wander from one owner to another for millennia. People turn to dust, and gold, having changed its shape, adorns a new owner or mistress.

Perhaps the ring on your finger was once melted from a golden idol into a medieval jewelry, and then went to the mint, where they made a coin from it, in which they punched a hole over time and worn it as a pendant. And already in the middle of the 20th century, the coin fell into scrap and merged with other products, becoming your ring. It turns out that many of us are wearing pieces of ancient jewelry and coins.

During the 1990s, a great many Soviet jewelry was melted down, but despite this there is still a lot left, so do not think that very soon they will become a rarity and begin to be appreciated as true antiques. This will not happen in our lifetime.Therefore, Soviet jewelry should be viewed as vintage jewelry for creating original images, and as a memory of the difficult past of a great country.

All this does not apply to truly luxurious jewelry of the Soviet era, because even then real masterpieces of jewelry art were made, they were simply intended not for ordinary people, but for the elite, however, just like today. Luxurious jewelry always finds its buyer, because they are rare, and rarity is much more appreciated and, most likely, will never be found in an ordinary person's casket.