Antique & Vintage Jewellery Restoration -
in Lockyer Valley, Brisbane, Redlands & SE QLD
When it comes to antique jewellery restoration, experience matters. Matthew has spent years carefully restoring delicate and complex pieces, bringing worn or damaged jewellery back to life with precision and skill.
At MN Jewellery Design, we treat every item with deep respect for its heritage, preserving its original character while strengthening it so it can be worn with confidence for years to come. Your antique and heirloom jewellery carries more than just beauty – it holds stories, memories, and family history.
At MN Jewellery Design, we specialise in antique jewellery restoration that respects the past while ensuring your piece can be worn and enjoyed for generations to come.
Based in the Lockyer Valley and serving Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Redlands and across South East Queensland, we combine traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques to carefully restore your most precious pieces.
At MN Jewellery Design, we treat every item with deep respect for its heritage, preserving its original character while strengthening it so it can be worn with confidence for years to come. Your antique and heirloom jewellery carries more than just beauty – it holds stories, memories, and family history.
At MN Jewellery Design, we specialise in antique jewellery restoration that respects the past while ensuring your piece can be worn and enjoyed for generations to come.
Based in the Lockyer Valley and serving Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Redlands and across South East Queensland, we combine traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques to carefully restore your most precious pieces.
Why Choose MN Jewellery Design for Antique Restoration?
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What We Can Restore?
Our antique restoration services cover a wide range of jewellery types.
- Ring restoration – Whether it’s replacing missing stones, reshaping worn bands, or repairing claws, we bring rings back to their former beauty.
- Necklaces & pendants – From repairing delicate chains to resetting stones and cleaning antique metals, we help restore both strength and elegance.
- Bracelets & bangles – We carefully strengthen fragile joints and bring out the fine detail that may have worn down over the years.
- Brooches - Pin repair or remake, soldering new clasps, re-setting or re-gluing stones, we can clean, repair and secure.
- Watch Case repair - We can repair lugs, touch up engraving, make missing pins for the bands. For watch movement repair we can refer you to an expert watch maker.
- Family heirlooms – With sensitivity and respect, we repair treasured pieces that have been passed down through generations, helping you keep their stories alive. Matthew has repaired all sorts of heirlooms - from silver boxes, bowls, serving implements, silver cigarette cases, large antique belt buckles, war medals, mother of pearl crosses, memorial jewellery, mourning pieces, and even crystal pieces.
Our Restoration Process
We make the restoration journey simple, transparent, and reassuring.
- Consultation – We begin by meeting with you to examine your jewellery and listen to its story, so we fully understand both its condition and its sentimental value.
- Assessment – Matthew will explain the work required and provide clear, transparent options so you can choose what feels right.
- Craftsmanship – Using a combination of traditional hand skills and modern precision tools, your jewellery is restored with the highest level of care.
- Finishing – Finally, we polish, clean, and prepare your piece so it’s ready to be worn and enjoyed for many more years to come.
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Ring engraving fixed and ring polished.
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You don't have to loose the history of a ring when it's repaired. The ring band had worn thin over the years so it was re-shanked, but we saved the original stamping and engraving by cutting it out of the old shank and soldering it into the new one.
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Antique Dutch Cake Server restored and polished.
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Silver mug polished.
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Silver Trophies polished and engraving touched up.
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Stones can be matched and replaced.
The ring on the left was missing a stone, and the settings needed to be re-tipped. The diamond ring on the right had the shank restored, claws redone and missing stone replaced. |
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A vintage stainless steel watch case restored.
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