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Now In: Sterling Silver Charms and Pendants
Whether it’s a whimsical and gleefully colored enameled charm of an ice cream cone or a more solemn and austere crucifix, silver charms and silver pendants have been worn throughout the millennium. While the history of the charm is not exactly certain, it is widely accepted that they were originally worn to ward off evil spirits, signify social standing, or to impart good luck on the wearer. Today’s person donning charms as jewelry may proudly adorn himself with several charms, but most likely for very different purposes then our ancestors. They may spark a reminder of a specific memory, represent a hobby, mark the passage of a special day such as graduation, holiday or birthday, or just simply be worn to express one’s own identity and self-reflection. Historically charms have been adorned singularly or in multiples on open linked bracelets or hung on necklace chains. The term charm is characteristically used when the trinket will be displayed on a bracelet whereas pendant is used more exclusively for those items, which are worn on neck chain. In an attempt to make choosing and ordering of our sterling silver charms easier, we have grouped them together based on jewelry themes. |
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Silver Animal Charms and Pendants - Animals have existed on the earth long before humans appeared so it’s no wonder that they are revered by humans. Our sterling silver animal charm jewelry represents a vast number of species of animals including:
- Aquatic and ocean animals, which inhabit the seas, oceans, lakes, and shorelines of our vast planet’s, water resources. These include dolphin charms, whales charms and shark charms among others.
- Wildlife existing on our continents including wild cat charm species, elephant pendants, wolves and other endangered species
- Flying creatures such as butterfly charms, insects, and bird charms
- Domesticated house and farm animals including a wide array of cat and dog charms species, horse charms, cows, sheep and pig charms are all represented and crafted as sterling silver charms and pendants.
- These charm jewelry animals are available in varying finishes including high polish, diamond-cut, antiqued, enameled and occasionally with gemstones or cubic zirconia or even manufactured in marcasite. Please see specific listings for individual animal pendants and animal charms for more specific level of detail.
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Children Theme Charms - Pendants, which are about or concern the celebration of children have become increasingly popular over the last decade. Our diverse variety of sterling silver children charms and child pendants showcases the importance of children in all of our lives. These types of pendants can be further characterized by:
- Children and their birth dates as seen in our child's beaded charm with CZ or the corresponding birthstone mounted on a sterling silver baby shoe or within the dimples of a mini soccer ball.
- The interaction of parent, child and family
- Baby’s arrival including alphabet block charms, delivering stork, and rocking horse charms.
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Enameled Charms - Enameled charms offer a brilliance of color to the applied surfaces, turning a plain sterling silver charm into a vibrant piece of colorful jewelry. The use of color can enhance the realism while adding an element of durability to the enameled surface. The charms in this category are available in all varieties, shapes, sizes and themes including but not limited to animal charms, holiday charms, and sports charms.
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Heart Charms and Heart Pendants- This symbol of love, eternity, and happiness is one of the most popular and enduring styles of heart charms and heart pendants available. Variety and styling combinations and are endless and we list a few major permutations of varieties which we stock at Plum Island Silver:
· Heart pendants can be three-dimensional or flat, and sometimes available as a locket
· Puffed or flat and disk-like
· Finishes include high polish, filigree, antiqued, two-tone or vermeil, and enameled
Some variations of our pendants afford a stone heart with sterling details or a sterling heart with stone accent.
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Silver Letters and Number Charms – As humans, we take pride in others noticing us, especially if it is in a respectable and caring manor. Proudly displaying your own sterling silver initial conveys a sense of healthy ego and pride while wearing the initial of someone whom you love illustrates admiration and high regard. The same logic holds true for number charms, which bare some significance concerning age, birthday, anniversary, or a particular sports designation. Here below are listed the major styles of number charms and letter charms:
· Block style letter and number pendants and charms
· Scrolled or script style letters and numbers
· “Jersey Style” numbers reminiscent of numbers adorning sports jerseys
· Flat sterling silver number and letters with clear CZ accents
· Any type of written sterling pendant or charm which has a numerical component to it such as “#1 mom” or “graduation year 2006”.
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Silver Lockets & Perfume Bottles - Sterling lockets are worn around the neck and are designed to keep within them something sacred from a lover or very close relative, often times a note or a locket of hair. Its function was to keep the loved one “near” to one’s heart while they were away. The height of popularity for the silver locket occurred in the Victorian era, however they have earned their way into the last half-century as one of the most sought after pieces of jewelry.
Sterling silver perfume bottles historically served the purpose of providing a quick access of a favorite scent of perfume or cologne, however more recently they are worn for their aesthetic value rather than for reasons of practicality.
Like many of our other sterling collections, diversity abounds with these jewelry items as they are available with extensive variety:
· Finishes such as high polish, etched, antiqued, vermeil, or embossed
· Enamel accents or gemstone or CZ enhancements
· Marcasite or filigree styling
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Miscellaneous Charms in Silver - Any charm or pendant that does not logically reside in any of our established divisions, finds its home in the miscellaneous grouping. We have here listed a few related charms that you can find, however we strongly urge you to peruse the pages in our on-line catalog or traditional paper catalog for any specific sterling charms that you are looking for as this is merely a short listing and is not comprehensive.
- Fantasy, spiritual and magical charms include kokopelli , several varieties of fairy charms, unicorn charms, Italian horn charms, wizard charms and dragons
- Musical charm instruments such as piano charms, guitar charms, French horn, clarinet, trombone, banjo and others
- Food and edibles consisting of ice cream cone, hot dog, French fries, pizza slice, popcorn, Chinese food and watermelon charms
- Transportation and vehicles comprised of snowmobile, truck, car charms, motorcycle charms and pendants, airplane, space shuttle and many more
- Seasonal including Christmas jewelry, Easter pendants, birthdays, and all other holiday charms and special occasions
- Sterling silver charm holders which are functional pieces of jewelry whose purpose is to corral groupings of pendant together on a necklace so as not to alleviate strain on the sterling silver chains when groupings of charms are worn on a single necklace.
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