Whitney Kelly once sold her silver jewelry designs through the home shoping channel QVC.com with the trademark of her initials WK and sterling silver mark 925. Her designs featured real gemstones that were mostly unheard of in nice jewelry at the time or were mostly limited to Southwest style designs. She blended modern with southwest and "artisan" looks from other countries. Back when she was on QVC, her necklaces, bracelets, and rings would have been considerd "bridge" jewelry. That is the bridge between fine (gold with faceted gemstones) and costume (plastic and mystery metal now referred to as fashion) jewelry lines. With the rise in cost of silver, her styles are now considered fine jewlery and classifed as "vintage" look in fashion.
For vintage jewelry collectors, Whitney Kelly may be found at estate sales or reseller sites like ebay, etsy, and poshmark. Unfortuantely, most sellers on these sites do not know what stones were used in the items they are selling, so you may see lots of different descriptions for the same items. WK did use lot of tiger's eye, turquoise, mother of pearl, and jaspers. Ocassionally, she would do sliced agates, mosiac opal, or use green malachite and blue lapis. If you see jade listed, it is most likely an aventurine, onyx, or calcedony instead. Her pink stones were usually rhodonite, but that is based only on what I have seen so far. For great example photos of her designs, visit the gem.app stie. The most expensive peices of her line were her signature chunky bracelets. Those bracelets still are the most sought after peices and can go for fairly high bids on auction sites.
Whitney Kelly started as a one-of-a-kind jeweler before selling on QVC. After she left QVC, she exclusively designed in gold and sold through her own website. The website is gone now and there seems to be no way of finding anything out about her anymore. Since QVC and her designs were big in both the US and UK, I do not know where she was from. Not being able to find details is a shame since she was such a great designer that her styles are still loved, collected, and worn.
If anyone knows more about Whitney Kelly, please let me and my readers know by adding the infromation in a comment on thsi blog. If anyone has a WK jewelry peice and are wondering what the stones are, add a question in the comments with a link to your item's photo on pinterest or elsewhere and I will let you know what I think the stones might be.
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