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The most universal forms of adornment are
ring, brooch or earrings. Its use antedates clothing,
and it has been made of a variety of materials including berries, nuts, seeds,
perforated stones, feathers, hair, teeth, bone, shells, ivory, and metals.
Although bronze and silver have been used by primitive peoples and in modern
hand wrought jewelry, gold has usually been the preferred metal. Jewelry has
been decorated by engraving, embossing, etching, and filigree, and by
application of enamel, mosaic, gems, semiprecious stones, and glass.
Vintage costume jewelry, antique costume
jewelry, contemporary costume jewelry, used costume jewelry, lowest cost costume
jewelry and new costume jewelry, or
commonly spelled, jewellery, jewlery, jewerly, jewellry, broach,
collectible, collectable vintage.
