All About Jewellery

There are different types of jewellery for different types of occasions, from parties to day wear, from stage jewels to the Royal jewels. It can be made from nearly anything including items made of yarn and plastic beads.

Kid's jewellery is often low-priced, colourful and fun to make and wear. You can also buy costume jewellery, which can be made from any kind of metal including gold or silver.

But for real jewellery they use only gold, silver or platinum as the setting and the jewels used are precious gemstones like diamonds, emeralds and sapphires.

The Crown Jewels of England is a collection of some of the most expensive and beautiful pieces of royal decoration in the entire world. The Crown Jewels include the royal crowns that are used at the coronation of a new king or queen.  Included in this collection are sceptres, orbs, rings, and swords. These items are really old and date back through hundreds of years, bet you haven’t seen many pieces that are that old!

Many of the royal crowns in this jewellery collection will be used by every monarch throughout history and others are personally made for just one king or queen. There are even special crowns that are created to be worn by the royal consorts. Some people are not aware that the top of the crowns for queens will have a slight bend while the king's crowns are made to have a straight, pointed top.

For a small fee visitors can view this amazing collection at London Tower where it is displayed at the Jewel House. The queens and other royal family members also have large collections of other jewellery that they will wear for special occasions. There are diamond studded tiaras; necklaces made from pearls, diamonds and sapphires; diamond and emerald earrings; and solid platinum or gold bracelets and pins. Because these pieces of jewellery are so valuable and have such great historic meaning there are identical copies that can be worn instead of the real jewels.

Interesting Facts about Jewellery for Kids to Know

1. The only approved initials to mark gold are KT or K, which stands for the karatage, or percentage of gold in the metal being used.

2.  24 KT is the purest type of gold metal for jewellery but it is softer than 18KT, 14KT or even 10KT.

3. 18 KT gold is 18 parts gold and 6 parts of another metal, which means that it is ¾ gold.

4. Costume jewellery was created so that everyone could have fun, pretty body decorations to wear.

5. Some cultures value jewellery made from stones, wire, or crystals more highly than items made from gold and diamonds.

6. Many people will receive their first piece of jewellery when they are a young child.

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