Unlike many jewellery wholesalers, our catalogue is divided almost equally between Sterling Silver Jewellery and Costume Jewellery. We already have a dedicated section devoted exclusively to the different types of costume jewellery (necklaces, bracelets, fashion rings, etc.), but up now our silver was scattered around the website, in various locations.

This works fine for customers who buy a little of everything, but not so well for those customers who are only shopping for sterling silver.

With that in mind, we’ve added a new category to our catalogue today - Wholesale Sterling Silver. All of our silver jewellery belongs in this category, and can be found via this page, regardless of whether the item is a ring, pendant, earring, bracelet, or chain. Links to these sub-categories can be found at the top of the new page, allowing you to easily ‘drill down‘ and browse through the type of silver jewellery that appeals to you.

We hope that this will make life just a little easier for our silver buyers.

Anyone who tried to browse the website or place orders on Saturday will have noticed that the site was down for much of the day. This was caused by some maintenance work carried out overnight that led to problems on our server. The site remained inaccessible throughout the day, until 7:30 in the evening.

A side effect of these problems was that many emails sent to us over this time went astray. If you did try to contact us on Saturday, and haven’t heard back from us yet, please get in touch again.

Our regular customers will know that we often make changes and improvements to our site. It was only a month ago that we added a Popular Jewellery Items Page, and it’s proven to be one of the most visited pages on the site. We do listen to feedback from customers, and many of the changes we make are in response to that feedback.

With that in mind, we’ve added some new navigation links to make browsing the Catalogue a little easier. Where before, the only way to see our stock was to use the Next and Previous links on each page, now it is possible to jump pages more quickly, and to easily move to the end of the catalogue.

The new links make it easy to see how many pages of stock we have, and provide a simple mechanism to jump to the oldest items. The image above shows that we have 27 pages of Costume Necklaces. As we always display our stock in reverse order, with the newest items at the front and the oldest at the back, these new links allow customers to quickly look at our oldest items in stock - the most likely to be almost sold out.

We’ve added a new page to the website listing links to jewellery and business related organisations that we feel might be useful to our customers. These links include official organisations such as the Birmingham and Sheffield Assay Offices, along with less well known organisations such as The Silver Society, The London Metal Exchange, and The British Jewellers Association.

Many of these sites are worth more than just a casual glance, as they do contain a wealth of information.

Sheffield Assay Office

Birmingham Assay Office

More About Hallmarking

The Silver Society

The Hallmarking Convention

The Jewellery Distributors’ Association

British Jewellers Association

London Metal Exchange

UK Business Forum

OFT: Distance Selling Regulations

Jewellery on Wikipedia

Jewellery Cleaning - an overview

How to Clean Silver

How to Repair Silver Jewellery

Jewellery on Hub Pages - Random bits and pieces.

Jewellery on eBay

Jewellery Packaging - Bags, boxes, etc.

If anyone can recommend other sites that might be of interest to those in the Jewellery trade, we’d love to hear from you.