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Each season, customers ask us the same question: “How do you come up with a new snowflake every year?” It's a fair question. The Annual Breakell Snowflake Collection has been running since 1994 — thirty-two years of designs, each one distinct, each one handcrafted in sterling silver. After that many years, you might expect the well to run dry. It hasn't. Here' …

Some traditions begin quietly and grow into something irreplaceable. That's the story of the JH Breakell Annual Snowflake Collection. Thirty-Two Years in the Making Since the early 1990s, JH Breakell & Co. has welcomed the holiday season with a new sterling silver snowflake — each one born from the world around us. Some trace the spires of Trinity and Saint Mary's Chu …

A pendant is one of the most personal choices in jewelry — close to the body, often worn every day, and visible in nearly every photograph taken of you for the rest of your life. It's worth choosing thoughtfully. Here's how we think about it. Start with Size Pendant size is largely a matter of proportion — both to your frame and to the chain you'll wear it on. A few …

Some gifts are forgotten within a season. Others are worn for a lifetime. The difference, more often than not, is meaning — and few things carry meaning as quietly and durably as a well-chosen piece of jewelry. At J.H. Breakell & Co., we've spent more than fifty years making pieces that mark moments. Here are some of the milestones we most often help people celebrate. …

Turn over almost any piece of fine jewelry and you'll find it: a small stamp, sometimes so tiny it requires a loupe to read. Most people never look. But that mark tells you something important about what you're holding — and in the case of a handcrafted piece, it tells you who made it. What Is a Hallmark? A hallmark is a stamp applied to a piece of jewelry to certify the …