It's official: Silver is HOT, HOT, HOT!

Every magazine we pick up shows fabulous silver jewelry for this season.  And why not?  What's not to love about gorgeous, sleek sterling silver?  It's great looking, easy to wear, and much more affordable than gold.  (And we won't even get started on the high price of diamonds, etc.)

But we want to compare some of our lovely pieces, to some beauties we recently found in a chi-chi magazine.  Now we're saying upfront, the sterling jewelry in the ad is exquisite.  Our only sticking point: the prices are exquisite too - exquisitely high!

In fact, it made us wonder if our pieces were priced too low!  No, we're not going to increase the prices; we think they're very fair.

But the comparison is mind boggling:





The prices for these lovely bracelets (top to bottom):

$720


$750


$3,000


$3,000


$1,035


$655


$595

They are beauties, and have "designer" pedigrees; but yet...




Let's compare to our lovely handcrafted sterling cuff, made by a silver artisan in Mexico:








A mere $85.  Why the HUGE difference?  Well, in large part - no designer name attached to it.

See other photos of this great bangle bracelet.








And our gorgeous cuff from Barbara SilverStein:







Barbara's cuff is actually braided and polished stainless steel, but the price -  still, a very reasonable $210.

Check out the other photos of this cuff, and the other wonderful silver pieces in our Jewelry Department.








Yes, silver jewelry is all the rage.  We just don't think you should shred your wallet over it!