OUR STORY

Steve & Dave

Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, is old, beautiful and a remarkable place. Famous for its world-renowned International Festival and the iconic Edinburgh Castle, which dominates the city centre landscape, it is a city that features high on the bucket list of many people. Once here, everybody wants to return and we hope that you will feel the same way about our website, because just like Edinburgh, our jewellery collection is also old and beautiful.

 

From Edinburgh With Love is run by Steve and Dave. We are both in our 60’s and we were born and bred in Portobello, which is Edinburgh's seaside beach resort and only a few miles from the city centre. We are friends from school and university, former rugby players and avid Bruce Springsteen fans. We would love to say that just like Edinburgh and our jewellery collection, we are also old and beautiful but that’s probably stretching the connection a bit too far!  

For more than a decade we have been buying and selling pre-owned jewellery from our high street stores and although originally it was only one of the products we offered, pre-owned jewellery swiftly established itself as our core business. Adding on line selling to our high street portfolio by using eBay and other similar sites proved a very positive move and after earning the status of Top-Rated sellers we found that on line transactions increasingly accounted for more and more of our sales. Now with the advent of COVID-19, we have decided to build on our experience of distance selling and sell exclusively on line. To do this we have built our first ever online shop: From Edinburgh With Love [FEWL] and although it is early days, we already have customers from 21 different countries, mostly from mainland Europe.

Every single item of jewellery we sell is pre-owned, very often vintage or antique and we do not sell new jewellery due to feeling uncomfortable with its high price and often disappointing quality. Each item we sell is personally selected by us and comes from all over the UK via our network of traders and individuals, who regularly visit places such as antique fairs, auction houses, car boot sales, markets and even jumble sales!

We understand and appreciate that buyers cannot touch or feel the items we sell but years of online selling has taught us the value of generating honest and accurate descriptions.

We hope you enjoy our range as much as we do putting it together!