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Now In: Chain
This category contains the following sub-categories:
 Bead Box Curb & Cable Fancy Figaroa Figmar Liquid Silver Liquid Silver Chain Magic & Herringbone Marina Miscellaneous Omega Rope Snake
Chain: Silver chain is one of the premiere categories of silver jewelry both in sales and the number of variations attributed to this branch of jewelry. Styles range from open link curbs and figaroa chains to sleek herringbones and fancy wheat chains and bead chain. Alterations in width and sizes within each style of chain are often correlated with their affinity for either men who gravitate toward the larger sizes while women generally prefer the thinner more petite gauges of silver chain.
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Plain silver bead chain types as well as those with added silver beads and chevron designs. |
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Box chain is sturdy and versatile, making it a safe choice for gift purchases. |
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Oval links of curb and cable chain create serene linking designs. |
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Gorgeous and noble, the silver fancy chains are a smashing success. |
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A favorite style of men's silver chain, the figaroa is a consummate great seller. |
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A marvelous style created by the merging of figaroa chain and marina chain. |
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Heshi, or liquid silver, serves up an enormously bright, sleek finish, due to its closely knit assembly of minute silver beads. |
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The number one category of silver chains are the magic herringbone chains. |
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Marina chain looks vastly different in its regular and puffed styles. |
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Links, scrolled chain, woven designs, and curved, ornate styles are housed within the miscellaneous silver chain category. |
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Dignified and yet simple, the omega chains show best when worn by themselves and with no other chain to distract the onlooker. |
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Offering the look of extravagance, the rope chain, sells extremely well all throughout the year. |
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A snake chain often resembles a tighter weave omega chain design. |
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Sterling Silver Chain Jewelry
Silver chains and necklaces are traditionally adorned by both men and women and are eternally in vogue. Whether a traditional herringbone, a masculine figaroa, or an elegant diamond-cut serpentine, sterling chain is available in hundreds of styles, thicknesses, and types. Most of these styles are Italian silver chain, made in modern factories in the heartland of Italy with traditions deeply rooted in the history of Italy. Families of chains in our jewelry catalog are grouped together from smallest or lightest to largest or heaviest, as a means of facilitating ordering. Their available lengths, from short choker length to long and extensive for adorning lockets or pendants, include men’s and women’s bracelets and are also detailed within the catalog. Many silver chains are able to accommodate charms, stone pendants, or lockets or they can be worn simply without any additional embellishments and revered for their simplicity.
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Silver Bead Chain - Bead chain is family of chain characterized by small round silver balls, which form a continuous strand of sterling silver bead chain. Elongated spaces are sometimes added, as well as bar-shaped beads to offer a more glamorous appearance. They are available in single and multi-row formats with the beads themselves offering a diamond cut finish for a shiny and glimmering effect or a more traditional high polish texture. Specialty designs in this style of chain include graduated beads, V-shaped patterns, the addition of liquid silver, and an oval shape of bead chain.
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Silver Box Chain - Just as the name implies, sterling silver box chain is a continuous linking of interconnected six-sided, three-dimensional, sterling silver, miniature boxes. We stock several different sizes and varieties include a twisted version, a box with interspersed beads, and a C-box which offers a more curved and undulating pattern, rather than angular design as with the traditional box styles.
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Silver Curb Chain & Cable Chain - Silver curb chain is based on an ancient simplistic design of interlocking similar links together to form a unified product known as a curb chain. Because most early 19th century chain making practices involved little to no machinery, the links were made fairly sizeable in order to craft the product in the most time efficient manor. This larger and weightier grouping of links makes silver curb chain a natural choice for men’s jewelry, however, with the advent of modern machinery, smaller and more feminine styles are now available.
The name cable chain owes its name to the heavy and industrial type of cable chain, which is typically used to hoist anchors on large freighters. Both of these styles often are mistaken for one another, however, the cable grouping generally takes on a more 3-dimensional aspect, whereas the curb links are generally flatter. Most of these styles are available in high polish luster, however a few styles of the curbs may be available with a Pave´ finish.
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Fancy Silver Chain - A handful of ornate styles, which are primarily outside the realm of widely used classification schemes, are categorized as our class of fancy sterling silver chains. There is no relatedness from one style to another and each one is unique from the rest. While we avail photos of three styles to you below, we urge you to look at the styles of fancy chains in the catalog since the three here are a sampling and are not representative of the entirety of options available.
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STAMP-220 : STERLING SILVER STAMPATO 220 CHAIN
Stampato is an example of a classical design from Italy. This fancy link sterling silver chain is comprised of 3 rows of ovalesque-shaped beads, the middle of which is offset from the end rows. It is flexible and has been a consistently great seller for many years. |
MESH-5MM : STERLING SILVER 5MM MESH CHAIN
A tightly woven, honeycombed pattern defines the mesh chain. A statement in simplicity and refinement as well as a gorgeous example of fine Italian workmanship |
FLBYZ-100 : STERLING SILVER FLAT BYZANTINE 100 CHAIN
As its namesake suggests, the group of Byzantine chains are homage to the dome shape; one of the classic gifts given to us by the Byzantines. Upon close examination of this style of sterling silver chain, one can clearly see the opposing dome scheme that distinguishes this grouping. | |
| Sterling Silver Figaroa Chain - A combination of three curb links followed by an oval cable with a repeating pattern incorporates a new style of silver chain known as the silver figaroa chain. A quintessentially masculine chain in the larger and heavier varieties, this link embodies manliness and virility; the smaller and lighter variations are a prime choice for any sterling chain wearer and not merely the choice exclusively of men. There are three distinctive specialty variations of figaroa: A specialty finish known as pave imparts an additional element of sparkle to the silver chain. Infinity figaroa is distinguished by its infinity symbol “∞” shaped links, which is followed by an oval cable link. This style does not follow the characteristic “3- plus-1” pattern of figaroas. Figaroa Marina substitutes marina links in lieu of curb chain and generally maintains the typical figaroa linking pattern.
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Figmar Silver Chain - Figmar styling is a union of the Figaroa chain “3-plus-1” pattern with Marina chain family links used in lieu of curb chain. Because of its excessive size, Figmar 300 employs a “2-plus-1” pattern, while still maintaining a strong resemblance to its smaller and lighter counterparts.
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Liquid Silver Chain - Liquid Silver chain is a style of sterling silver chain or necklace, which is formed by the addition of tiny cylindrical silver beads and strung on chain, cord or wire. These beads move minimally along the strand and produce a shimmering effect, similar to water flowing, giving rise to the term liquid silver. This fashion was popularized during the 1970’s and was known by an alternate name of heishi, which is used interchangeably today. Variations in style include 5,10,20, and 50-strand and a fancier 10-strand, which sports sterling silver beads throughout the individual rows of liquid silver.
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Silver Magic Chain & Herringbone Chain - Herringbone chain is one of the more widely popular styles of sterling silver chains for us at Plum Island Silver. The double herringbone chain is the traditional thicker, more rigid version of the updated, more flexible and forgiving magic chain. As the chain is meant to lay flat, we advise that no charms or pendants be hung from these styles of chain. Most lengths from 7” women's bracelet through 30” chains are available in each of the gauges of magic and double herringbone, however please consult the catalog for specific details within each gauge. Modifications and variations include the following:
- Magic chain with dolphins - this diminutive gauge of sterling silver magic chain bears an embossed imprint of swimming dolphins along the length of the chain.
- Twisted magic chain – employs a process by which the chain takes on a characteristic corkscrew appearance. This category also is available in a triple multi-strand variety and a single strand rendition, which exhibits a coiled bead chain running parallel to the twisted magic chain.
- A Florentine finish, diamond-cut, 3-braid style elegantly finishes out this category of sterling silver chain.
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Sterling Silver Marina Chain - Interlocking oval links whose width is bisected by a sterling silver bar is designated as silver Marina chain. We at Plum Island Silver proudly make available eight gauges of Marina chain from the smallest 060 gauge through the colossal Marina 300. A three-dimensional or “puffed” variety is also available in 030 and 070 gauges.
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Miscellaneous Silver Chain - Just as the name implies, this category of silver chain is for those styles, which have no family of chain to where they belong. While we avail photos of three styles to you below, we urge you to look at the styles of miscellaneous chains in the catalog since the three here are a sampling and are not representative of the entirety of options available.
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Silver Omega Chain - Omega chain is fashioned after the design of a bird’s feather with its straight “backbone” and evenly spaced rectangular “links” emanating from the spine area. Flexible, highly polished, and generally worn relatively close to the collarbone, the Omega is the choice to exhibit any showcase piece of jewelry worn on the neck.
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Sterling Silver Rope Chain - Twisted and braided fibers of silver form the backbone of the silver rope chain family. Known for its strength, integrity, classic pattern, and simplicity, the rope family of chains is the single best selling group of sterling silver chain jewelry here at Plum Island Silver Company. Originally available as traditional rope and later modified by the presence of diamond cutting, the rope chain can be worn with or without accoutrements and can generally accommodate most jewelry pendants and charms without concern for damage to the chain. Most all these jewelry styles are Italian sterling silver chain.
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Silver Snake Chain - Soft, slippery, supple and sleek are all descriptive ways of verbally describing the snake chain family of Italian silver chains. General distinguishing details include, a homogenous, soft, and flexible chain, which approximates the texture and consistency of the skin of a snake. Alterations and embellished designs include:
- Snake chain with disk design in which a thin snake chain dons doughnut-shaped beads in a regular fixed length pattern.
- Diamond-cut snake chain, which is accented with angular cuts and offers a shiny effect.
- Square snake chain in which the edges of the chain are beveled to a 90 ° angle. One variant in this subcategory of the snake is the 4S-design, which consists of a quadruple row of a small gauge of square snake chains.
- Twisted snake chain and twisted snake with beads are simply as their name implies.
- Snake-3 braid is a triple chain of round snake, which is woven and braided into a tight weave.
- Oval snake is the most realistic, snake-like texture that we offer.
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