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About Lisa Kramer Vintage

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I guarantee the authenticity of all items in my shop and want my customers to love their purchases as much as I love them. All items have an unconditional return policy and I offer a flexible layaway plan. Check out the "Terms of Sale" for details.

About Us

Lisa Kramer Vintage offers antique and vintage jewelry selected with an eye towards design and history, informed by my former career as an architect and my undergraduate degree in anthropology. I love the artistry of jewelry and how each piece distills elements of its era's design into beautiful wearable sculpture. Along with extensive research, I study how a piece of jewelry has been constructed in much the same way that I look at the details of how buildings are constructed. Together, a piece's design and construction helps me determine its age. I also try to provide pieces at many different price points because good design isn't limited to expensive items.

Some of my favorites are the bold, surprisingly modern-looking, designs that were sometimes produced during the Victorian era; romantic Edwardian and Art Nouveau jewelry; glamorous Art Deco jewelry; fine paste jewelry from the Georgian through Art Deco eras; Mexican jewelry; and artist-produced jewelry from the Arts and Crafts era, the mid-century Modernist period, and even crazy hippie jewelry.

For nearly 20 years I have been selling antique and vintage jewelry at shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and in recent years I've expanded my reach to shows in southern California and the east coast. But my love of vintage jewelry goes back much farther, since I was teenager combing vintage stores and flea markets in New York City (where I grew up).

If you are looking for something in particular, and don't see it in my Ruby Lane shop, please feel free to contact me as I have hundreds of additional pieces, and am constantly acquiring new ones. I'll gladly keep an eye out for you and let you know when I have something that might interest you.

I am a member of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts (ASJRA), the Society of Jewelry Historians in both the US and the UK, the Art Deco Society of California, and the Women's Jewelry Association. I have also completed the Accredited Jewelry Professional program of the Gemological Institute of America. I have a blog, also named Lisa Kramer Vintage, which I use as a forum for writing about jewelry history, travel (with a focus on antiquing), design, and other subjects that interest me. A link to it can be found on my "Our Favorite Links" page. I am also active on Instagram, which is a good place to see previews of items that I'm bringing to antique shows, as well as art and architecture.
Lisa Kramer
P.O. Box 3505
Berkeley , CA 94703
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