Daniel Oliver 
From our vantage level in 2022 it is effortless to ignore what an accomplishment fifty decades on the throne is. In 2002, the Queen was only the sixth British monarch in record to access the milestone, and only the 3rd to mark the celebration with a celebration.
Inspite of predictions in the press that the anniversary would be a non-party, it was a enormous achievements, and noticed Her Majesty undertake substantial Royal excursions of the Commonwealth and every region of the United kingdom and for the first time, welcome crowds into Buckingham Palace gardens for public live shows. She even managed to match in a go to to the set of Emmerdale, exactly where she viewed a stunt explosion!
In the photograph above, she is carrying an asymmetric gold flower brooch, almost certainly from the 1950s. Vintage items from this time are turning out to be significantly collectible, specifically yellow gold parts and Egyptian-themed ‘Cleopatra’-design and style jewellery. The two examples beneath, from our collection of mid-century brooches, are different in style, but related in execution.
In the globe of marriage, the Golden Wedding day Anniversary is a vastly major milestone, and is usually marked with a gold piece of jewelry.
Contemporary fashion homes these as FOPE do superb, tactile pieces of gold jewelry, these kinds of as the ‘High Jewellery’ MiaLuce necklace down below.
Upcoming time:- The Diamond Jubilee of 2012
