| Sterling silver jewelry has been an art form for a | | | | bought as a Pendant to hang on a necklace or as |
| very very long time since before your Great | | | | a Charm to be worn on a bracelet. If it makes |
| great great great Grand Mother and Father were | | | | sense use it, they are the same. Go into one |
| roaming around looking for it. First Charms and | | | | store and see a beautiful what they are calling a |
| Pendants can look very similar. The price is often | | | | silver pendant, then go into a different store and |
| set by the value of the silver, but more likely by | | | | see it called a silver charm for every occasion. |
| the look of the particular item, or who made it or | | | | Back in our ancestors' day, perhaps a more noble |
| even who the designer was. There are many | | | | era, a Pendant usually was associated with some |
| factors that are figured in before the final price | | | | organization or religious group. A Saint Christopher |
| goes on an item. The price is not the difference | | | | silver medal, or a Motka Boska medal, or a Saint |
| between Pendants and Charms because they are | | | | Jude Thaddeus medal or a saint Francis of Assisi |
| both subject to the same criterion. | | | | medal were all called Pendants. An Espree de Core |
| Would you feel out of it showing up at a party of | | | | metal was a Marine Corp Pendant and same for |
| the artist's guild and be wearing on a necklace as | | | | metals for the Army, Navy, and Air Force which |
| a Pendant the charm you got for the blue ribbon | | | | were often worn with ones dog tags. If one were |
| at the State Fair and had always worn it as one | | | | in the navy and gave his sweet heart his Navy |
| of the charms on your bracelet. The question that | | | | Pendant and she wore it on her bracelet that |
| comes to my mind is plainly straightforwardly | | | | would totally by appropriate. Maybe you took a |
| asked. What is the difference between a Sterling | | | | trip to New York and bought a tiny replica of the |
| Silver Pendant and a Sterling Silver Charm? Well | | | | Empire State Building to hang on your bracelet. |
| upon asking around and looking into it, they are | | | | Maybe you learned to play tennis and you |
| probably the same thing, at least they are now. | | | | purchased a silver replica of a tennis racket again |
| For all practical purposes they are the same. Most | | | | to be hung on your Charm bracelet. If you had |
| things evolve around common usage. It only | | | | the chance to attend an appropriate function |
| makes sense to use the Charm that was such an | | | | where it would be accepted, the use of the |
| achievement and so closely related to the theme | | | | charm on a necklace only makes sense. Because |
| of the whole party. | | | | of common use and acceptance Charms are |
| It should not make any difference if it was | | | | Pendants, and Pendants are Charms. |