About Goldcrest Antique & Vintage
EST. 2016
Read my interview with The Antique Collector Here!
Goldcrest Antique & Vintage is committed to offering high quality antique, vintage and pre-owned jewellery and silver. The business is run by me, Alice, from Brighton & Hove, England.
I started in the jewellery trade over 16 years ago at age 18. After spending 9 years in a retail jewellers, working my way up from a shop assistant to a manager and buyer, I made the decision to start my own online jewellery venture. I created "Silverfinches" on Etsy, opening my shop with a grand total of 10 items - all of them silver rings, brooches and pendants which I had purchased from my current employer's scrap pile. At the same time I created my instagram account and started to share my pieces for sale with the online jewellery community.
The old "Silverfinches" Etsy banner
Once I made my first sale I received the boost to my confidence that I needed; I started to buy more pieces, slowly branching out to gold items as well as silver. I kept in touch with the jewellery trade that I loved, working alongside jewellers in Worthing and London, photographing their stock and generating online sales for their businesses, all the while building up my own in every spare hour I had.
In 2019 I changed my business name to "Goldcrest Antique & Vintage"; it gave me an opportunity to re-brand and refine some aspects of the business that I felt needed changing, as I had begun to seek slightly higher value pieces including Victorian and Georgian rings. With my new look came the drive to create my own website - "luckily" the pandemic of 2020 provided me with ample time to do so! I now run www.goldcrestantique.com alongside my Etsy store and Instagram.
Nowadays I source my jewellery and silver from all over the UK. Living in England provides me with fantastic opportunities to visit antiques fairs and markets locally. I also buy online, through auction, and from dealers I know and trust.
Since 2016, I have invested thousands of hours into making Goldcrest Antique & Vintage the best it can be. I run this business completely by myself, taking care of the buying, photography, listing, marketing, packing and posting. It presents me with new challenges constantly but I love every single minute of it. I feel incredibly grateful that I look forward to waking up each morning to see what the day brings.
Lastly, I am continuously in awe of my wonderful customers who live all over the world - without you, I cannot do what I love. Thank you all so very much!