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<\/figure>With the originators still actively at the helm and passionately keen on continuing to lead the way in alternative, extraordinary design, this year of 2025 has seen Alchemy Gothic surpass its 1,000th pendant, or neckwear design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the early days, when creating the original model for the first of our pewter alternative jewellery pieces, the P1. Rieder\u2019s Axe, which was an exciting, but nervously tentative time, we now, slightly more confidently design, develop and produce our next generation of collections with the belief and pride of experience. However, in those formative years we had no idea that we\u2019d still be creating original alternative jewellery designs, and even accessories in leather and metal and treasures in pewter, glass and wood, etc, five decades later, and we paid little heed to our future legacy. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
We would save some of these items for our personal pleasure, but then eventually we established the Alchemy 1977 Archive<\/strong> with our conscious policy of preserving the first few production samples of each new creation for posterity. However, following our move of workshops in 2015<\/em> to the 18th century building of Saint Mary\u2019s Mill, sadly we have found that some of our earliest, pre-2011 pieces have been lost from our collection . <\/p>\n\n\n\n This set us thinking\u2026 even from the very beginning we know that at least several hundred of each piece of jewellery was sold, as well as many pieces of The Treasury, etc, and so therefore, would there be any early Alchemy admirers out there who still had their original items of vintage, pre-2011 Alchemy? If so, perhaps they could send us some pictures and tell us all of their own personal related stories? <\/p>\n\n\n
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