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Vintage & Antique Jewellery for a modern audience. Ethical and sustainable.
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16/09/2026

Bean Charms. I don’t care what’s it’s been, I want to know what it is now. Available on the website now.

Sorry you had to be on the launch live to understand that joke x

16/09/2026

deeply unserious jewellery content, as god intended

15/09/2026

Mildly horrified I’ve admitted all of this. Well the last time I told you all my dark thoughts in a reel everything went okay so maybe it’s a lucky charm???

Tomorrow I’m finally doing it. The first TL Original launches at 8pm BST, Wednesday 16th September
🗑️🦞

15/09/2026

If you missed last weeks newsletter here’s what 🥬MAD FRESHIES🥬 hit the website

This is one of those chains that makes me kinda wanna wet my pants in excitement for whoever grabs her. Sorry? Not sorry.

An absolutely extraordinary antique silver long guard chain, made in one of my all-time favourite and most highly sought-after links: puffy mariner chain.

Every individual link has that gorgeous rounded, almost inflated profile, but despite the name, these are completely solid links. The result is a chain that looks beautifully soft and pillowy while still feeling properly weighty and substantial in the hand. It has an incredible presence, and the aged silver gives it exactly the sort of atmospheric finish you want from a piece with this much history behind it.

And then there’s the length. At just over 46 inches, it is basically perfect.

Long enough to play with, layer, loop and style in different ways, but not so enormously long that it becomes cumbersome. Worn doubled, it creates the most incredible ready-made stack around the neck: two layers of chunky antique silver with all that texture and history, without you having to do anything clever whatsoever.

It’s finished with an original dog clip, so you can also add a pendant, charm, locket or whatever else you fancy and completely change the look.

I have genuinely never had a chain quite like this before. The combination of the mariner link, the solid construction, the weight, the length and the dog clip is just exceptional.

This is tooo bloody GOOD.

A spectacular silver snake chain necklace, built around one of those designs that just feels completely resolved from every angle. The chain itself has that beautiful, fluid snake construction we all know and love, substantial enough to make a proper statement, but still sleek enough that it doesn’t overwhelm everything else you’re wearing so totally stackable.

And then, brilliantly, they’ve taken the idea of a snake chain and made it into an actual snake.

The chain feeds into this incredible sculptural snake head, which curves languishes over its own tail. It is such a clever, satisfying piece of design, and turns what could already have been a beautif

01/09/2026

IT LOOKS LIKE GOLD. But what actually is it? 👀

If you’ve ever read “rolled gold”, “gold cased”, “gold filled” or “Back & Front” in a jewellery description and nodded along while understanding precisely f**k all, this one is for you.

Because “not solid gold” is not one single category. Some cheap modern plating is thinner than a human hair and may disappear fairly quickly. Rolled, cased and filled gold can survive for decades, sometimes well over a century, in beautiful condition. Back & Front actually means the visible back and front panels are gold. And Pinchbeck contains no gold whatsoever, but can still be a fabulous, collectible antique material in its own right.

The point is not that solid gold is good and everything else is s**t. The point is to know:

🦞 what you are buying
🗑️ how long you can reasonably expect it to last
🦞 whether the price reflects the materials and construction

Save this for the next time an antique jewellery listing starts speaking in riddles, and send it to someone who still thinks “gold filled” means filled with gold.

01/08/2026

The next person who tells me mixed metal stacks aren’t “bougie” enough is getting a smack. 😂 TELL ME THIS ISNT PERFECTION ON A PLATE.

Sure, stacking twelve VCA Alhambras tells me you’ve got money. This tells me you’ve got an eye.

We start with a Victorian silver collar holding a giant Victorian 18ct locket. Peakkkk craftsmanship. The kind of hot s**t that reminds you what jewellery looked like before mass production.

Then we’ve clipped a delicate Victorian gold bracelet onto an Edwardian silver Albert. We’re adding texture. We’re adding colour. We’re adding dimension. POINTS FOR YOU.

Then layering with the iconically you, workhorse vintage chain? Slayyyy. That one is going to be on whatever the weather.

And finally a Niello masterpiece? Girl. We’ve got a collector on our hands.

QUEEN now you’ve got gold against silver. Matte against shine. Heavy against delicate. Every layer has a different history, a purpose and a complementing texture.

Not every piece coming from the same luxury boutique, but because every piece earned its place over time, was chosen BY you, not FOR you by some marketing conglomerate

Now THATS bougie imo 😉 looking forward to arguing with VCA fans in the comments

29/07/2026

Jewellery for people who love a story.

Hi, I’m Rebecca 👋 and I run Trash Lobster. I spend my days traipsing up and down England hunting for antique and vintage fine jewellery. If it makes my heart sing, it comes home with me.

Think solid gold and silver, a sprinkling of gemstones and the occasional more exotic material. Expect chunky old gold, weirdo little charms and outrageous chains.

Everything is one of one, so when it’s gone, it’s gone.

I sell lots of pieces through Instagram Stories, so follow along for my freshest finds; or head to the link in my bio to browse trashlobster.com 🗑️🦞

29/07/2026

Why bracelets are the best category of jewellery.

Everyone talks about chains. But I genuinely think bracelets are the most underrated thing you can buy.

Here’s my case:

• If you love gold chains, bracelets give you exactly the same aesthetic... except you can actually see them. Every time you’re driving, typing, making a coffee or gesturing while talking, they’re right there.

Bracelets are jewellery for you. Necklaces are mostly jewellery for everyone else.

• They’re usually better value. Bracelets are a less hyped category than necklaces, and they’re shorter, so your money often goes further.

• They’re easier to buy as a first investment piece. If someone wants “a proper gold chain” but can’t justify spending £2k, they can often buy the bracelet equivalent for a fraction of the price and get the same satisfaction.

• You can stack them without them disappearing into each other. A few different bracelets still look intentional, whereas lots of necklaces can end up tangled or visually lost.

• Vintage bracelets are incredible. In the Victorian era, gold bracelets were often more popular than gold necklaces, so you find really unusual links and designs that simply don’t exist in chain form.

• I used to think I found bracelets annoying to wear. In my case it’s a sensory thing I got over - now they’re even more comfortable to me than necklaces.

• Not everyone wears bracelets. Necklaces are everywhere, but a good bracelet stack feels much more personal-style.

• Multiple bracelets can be clipped together to form chains!! So you can build over time AND have more versatility in your neck-stack.

21/07/2026

Complete the sentence: “Why face when…” 💀

17/07/2026

I know loads of people want to recreate those messy, eclectic stacks you see on Instagram where it looks like someone has thrown a jewellery box at their neck and somehow it has landed perfectly. Unfortunately, looking effortless does require a little effort, but once you get used to playing around, it starts to come naturally.

The main thing I’m doing here is creating as many different connection points as possible.

If you just slide charms onto chains, they’ll all fall to the centre of your chest and sit on top of each other (damn gravity). Lovely, but not quite the same jumbled effect.

On the top chain, I’ve used a big chunky chain with a beautiful clasp worn at the front. This is exactly why I point out when a vintage clasp is pretty enough to become part of the stack. I’ve then added an oversized silver lobster clasp, partly for that pop of silver, but also because it creates another drop and somewhere to hang the large star and oval locket.

For the longer chain in the middle, instead of adding one charm at the bottom, I threaded a safety pin through links on opposite sides to gather the chain in and change where it sits. It also creates another charm cluster, and because the charms can slide along the pin, the whole thing moves as I wear it.

The third “chain” is actually three bracelets clipped together. I’m always banging on about how versatile bracelets are, and this is exactly what I mean: as well as making a completely unique chain, every join gives you another place to add charms and create little clusters.

I’m also not bothered if charms overlap. I’m not going for perfect symmetry or making sure every piece is visible at all times. As I move, the stack moves, and different charms overlap, separate, flip and show themselves differently.

That, to me, is the key to a properly messy stack. You want it to feel like a cluttered little jewellery box worn around your neck, not like every piece has been carefully lined up.

I’m going to post more stacking ideas for different kinds of looks, so if there’s a particular type of stack you want to see, leave me a comment and tell me what you’re struggling with.

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