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Jewellery shopping in London?

Posted by Preethi on July 18, 2012 at 2:35pm in Discussions

Hi everyone,

I'll be in London for a week at the end of the month and was considering going to Portobello and/or Camden markets. Are there any ethnic jewellery at all in the antiques' stalls? Or shall I give those a miss?

Any other suggestions for jewellery shopping (ethnic and old)?

Thanks!

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  • Cordelia Donohoe February 16, 2014 at 11:43pm

    Hmm, I think I will try to find this dealer in Bermondsey...

  • Stefany Tomalin August 28, 2012 at 12:29pm

    you can call me on my cellphone:

    07712170753- i might not be busy-

    anyway try Monday Covent Garden antiques market

    Thursday Spitalfields market

    they have a few good dealers!

    happy hunting

    Stefany

  • Preethi August 24, 2012 at 10:30am

    Thanks again Chantal for the advice. I didn't have a lot of time to shop in London, and decided to spend part of a morning at the Bermondsey antique market and a few hours at Portobello.

    The Bermondsey market was quite small with about 20 or so stalls, although I'm not sure if that was because most of the dealers were on holiday. One of the sellers had an amazing stash of ethnic jewellery, including a pair of Burmese ear plugs and loads of east Asian (China, Mongolia, India) jewellery. I purchased the pair of bracelets listed at https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/south-indian-filigree-bracelets?... for 110 pounds and the earrings posted at https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/european-or-asian?xg_source=acti... for 150. I would have purchased a couple of other pieces, but the seller took only cash and I wasn't organized enough for that.


    She also gave me a couple of suggestions for ethnic jewellery sellers at Portobello, but again most of them were on holiday. Once again, only cash transactions. I also had limited time and only found https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/ear-plug-with-glass?xg_source=ac... for 18 pounds.


    Hope this is useful for someone else planning to visit London.

  • Preethi July 19, 2012 at 8:27pm

    Chantal, there's no way I'm missing either of them now :) Thank you so much for the advice!

    Sarah, thank you for the invitation but as I only have a week, I will be in London at the time. Looking forward to spending time with you in Morocco though :)


    Toya, let me know if you hop on that plane. We could trawl the markets together :)

  • SARAH CORBETT July 19, 2012 at 11:25am

    You are welcome to come to visit me if you have the time x  for dinner! not shopping!!!!

  • Toya July 18, 2012 at 10:43pm

    Wow Chantal, this list of treasures makes me want to hop on a plane and go along too!

     

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