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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Van_Poperin, post: 3039615, member: 16501&quot;]I really strongly recommend cultivating a taste for jewellery— buy if you can find something that you definitively like, not just a thing that will be “authentic” or worth money... that’s too nebulous a target to start with. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is how it worked for me:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Look at paintings of a people wearing jewellery</p><p>2) Discover what jewellery I like from the pictures</p><p>3) Research that jewellery</p><p>4) Find the jewellery, and others like it when I’m out</p><p><br /></p><p>The “nose” for jewellery, in my experience, develops after you have established what you *want* to find. Me? I like precious metals, stones, coins, middle eastern revival, Egyptian revival, beadwork and female figures, so I alway go for them. Now I’ve looked at enough, I can guess the quality with some accuracy. But I don’t think anyone here would say that you get the knowledge before you get the taste![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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