About Lisa Kramer Vintage Collection

The Lisa Kramer Vintage Collection offers antique and vintage jewelry selected with an eye towards design and history, informed by Lisa's former career as an architect and her undergraduate degree in archaeology. She loves the artistry of jewelry and how each piece distills elements of its era's design into beautiful wearable sculpture. 

Along with extensive research, Lisa studies how a piece of jewelry has been constructed in much the same way that she looks at the details of how buildings are constructed. Together, a piece's design and construction help her determine its age. She also tries to provide pieces at many different price points because good design isn't limited to expensive items.

Some favorites are the bold, surprisingly modern-looking, designs that were sometimes produced during the Victorian era; romantic Edwardian and Art Nouveau jewelry; glamorous Art Deco jewelry; Mexican jewelry; and artist-produced jewelry from the Arts and Crafts era, the mid-century Modernist period, and even crazy hippie jewelry.

For over 20 years Lisa has been selling antique and vintage jewelry at shows, and online since 2012 on Ruby Lane which you can find here. But her love of vintage jewelry goes back much farther, since she was teenager combing vintage stores and flea markets in New York City (where she grew up) and taking jewelry-making classes. 

Lisa is a member of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts (ASJRA) and the Society of Jewelry Historians in both the US and the UK. She has also completed the Accredited Jewelry Professional program of the Gemological Institute of America. She is active on Instagram, which is a good place to see previews of items that she bringing to antique shows, most of which are not on the website.