{"id":157046,"date":"2025-03-26T04:26:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/antique-2\/jewelry-collection-story-erin-of-ohshit-jewelry-gem-gossip\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T04:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:26:46","slug":"jewelry-collection-story-erin-of-ohshit-jewelry-gem-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=157046","title":{"rendered":"Jewelry Collection Story \u2013 Erin of @ohshit\u2013jewelry – Gem Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Today\u2019s Jewelry Collection Story comes from Erin of @ohshit__jewelry<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 a collector who I first found over on TikTok and then followed on Instagram. I love her videos and seeing what she adds to her collection, along with the reasoning behind each piece. I love when collectors are intentional with their buys and if you\u2019ve watched any of Erin\u2019s videos, you know there is a lot of thought behind what she purchases and adds to her collection. Excited to get to know more:<\/p>\n

\u201cI started collecting in a serious way during the height of the pandemic. Diving into the world of fine jewelry during that time felt like a respite from all the awful headlines and chaos we were in. I started out mainly collecting vintage pieces until I joined the jewelry instagram community and discovered all of the talented independent jewelers there are. It\u2019s such a privilege to be able to own their art. But my first love will always be antique pieces (bonus points if they\u2019re haunted).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m passionate about the story a jewelry collection tells and how it literally connects us all through space and time. I went to an exhibit at the Met and remember seeing gold jewelry from the Byzantine and Etruscan eras and thinking how wild it was that the gold my rings were made out of was the same gold as a necklace from the 5th century. I\u2019m also obsessed with the idea of curating a collection I can pass down some day. There aren\u2019t any heirlooms or inherited pieces in my family, so it\u2019s become really important to me to make a legacy of sorts out of my jewelry collection. And if I have no one to pass my collection down to one day, at least I\u2019ll have a killer estate sale<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of my all-time favorite hobbies is scrolling 30 pages deep into a hyper-specific Etsy search until I find a piece I\u2019ve been looking for. I have to imagine it\u2019s how pirate\u2019s felt when they would find a treasure chest filled with gold buried in the sand. When I\u2019m not on Etsy I\u2019m on Instagram, which I think has some of the best vintage sellers. There really are too many incredible ones to name, but one of my all-time favorites is FortunaGold. They\u2019re based out of Italy and have some of the most unique UnoAErre and Augis pieces that are super hard to find here in the US. I also love IRL treasure hunting at my local antique store, The People\u2019s Store in Lambertville, NJ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe one and only piece that had been passed down to me was my grandmother\u2019s opal wedding ring. The story of how she acquired it was really interesting\u2014she was a housekeeper at a hotel in the 70s and found the ring in a room. The hotel tried to call the person who had stayed in the room last but they never called back. My grandma ended up keeping it and wore it as her wedding ring since she and my grandpa weren\u2019t able to afford a ring when they got married. As the universe would have it, I lost it 50 years later after a tumultuous night out on the town. I tell myself it was written in the stars to be lost to keep myself from crying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy most recent find is this 18k octagonal medallion that says, \u201cDe la Mano de Papa\u201d (hand in hand with dad). I lost my dad in 2013 and I\u2019ve been slowly collecting pieces that either remind me of him or memorialize him in some way. My husband gifted me a Mociun Time Capsule necklace as a wedding present when we got married, it has a little bit of my dad\u2019s ashes soldered into a gold pod that I wear almost every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

You can follow Erin here \u2014> @ohshit__jewelry<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n