Children's jewellery

When buying precious metal jewellery for children there are some extra considerations that should be addressed.

Whether gold or silver, the necklaces, bracelets or anklets will normally need to be made to a smaller size than an adult would wear. But what happens when the child grows and they no longer fit?

You could go to a jeweller and have him try to find matching links and have the chain lengthened. Sometimes there will be a matching chain available, but what if there isn’t? Making links may require building them by hand to match and that will not be cheap.

If you buy chains that fit the child now, they may not fit when they have grown up. This is especially true of bracelets, an adult could never wear a 13cm bracelet, it simply wouldn’t go around the wrist.

If you buy chains to fit them when they have grown, they may be too large to wear until that day, a 20cm bracelet would fall over the hand of a child.

Why not use common sense and buy a chain to fit an adult, so they can wear it for their whole life, BUT have it made up to the length that fits them today. The extra chain can be put aside to be included into the chain as time passes.

A jeweller can easily add links when he has matching ones available.

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