{"id":1160,"date":"2015-03-16T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:55:08","slug":"buyers-beware-vintage-cartier-love-bracelets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/buyers-beware-vintage-cartier-love-bracelets\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Beware: Vintage Cartier Love Bracelets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"truef-before-content_2\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 20px;\" id=\"truef-1279114202\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/jewelry.html?utm_source=Loupe&#038;utm_medium=Display&#038;utm_campaign=Holidays2018&#038;utm_content=jewelry\" aria-label=\"TrueFacet Holiday Shops Sale\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/728x90_Jewelry_TF_Holiday_Evergreen_Banners-copy_27.jpg\" alt=\"TrueFacet Holiday Shops Sale\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/728x90_Jewelry_TF_Holiday_Evergreen_Banners-copy_27.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/728x90_Jewelry_TF_Holiday_Evergreen_Banners-copy_27-300x37.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/728x90_Jewelry_TF_Holiday_Evergreen_Banners-copy_27-200x25.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>If you\u2019re shopping for a pre-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/brands\/cartier.html\">Cartier Love Bracelet<\/a> and find one at a jaw-dropping, seems-to-good-to-be-true cost, read on. You may be mistakenly browsing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/jewelry\/bracelets.html\">vintage Revson Bracelet<\/a> that is not worth the same value as an authentic Cartier Love Bracelet.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, Cartier designer Aldo Cipullo partnered with Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon Cosmetics, to design a special-edition Love Bracelet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1169\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-revson-via-etsy-e1426521058493.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-revson-via-etsy-e1426521058493.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: etsy.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-revson-via-etsy-e1426521058493.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/charles-revson-via-etsy-e1426521058493-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: etsy.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the Revson Bracelet looks virtually identical to the original, there are two major design points that distinguish it from the standard Love Bracelet. The Revson Bracelet was electroplated to cut down its retail cost. It is oftentimes misleadingly advertised as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/cartier-love-b6035617-bracelet-rose-gold-size-17.html\">18K Aldo Cipullo Love Bracelet<\/a>\u201d but is in fact only gold-plated and therefore less expensive. The second key design difference of the Revson Bracelet is that it has a screw on only one side and a hinge on the other\u2014whereas the original unscrews on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Revson Bracelets are also stamped with \u201cAldo Cipullo Gold Electroplate\u201d and \u201cCharles Revson, Inc.\u201d Real vintage Cartier Love bracelets meanwhile are stamped with the Cartier name only and most originals are not engraved with serial numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Many people re-selling the Revson Bracelet will list the item as a vintage Cartier Love Bracelet or an Aldi Cipullo-Charles Revson Love Bracelet. And while this is, in a way, factually true\u2014the bracelet was indeed produced by Cartier\u2014it\u2019s a misleading characterization of the bracelet if you\u2019re in the market for an authentic Love Bracelet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1168\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/via-milkywayjewels-2-e1426520936219.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/via-milkywayjewels-2-e1426520936219.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: milkywayjewels.com\" width=\"450\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/via-milkywayjewels-2-e1426520936219.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/via-milkywayjewels-2-e1426520936219-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: milkywayjewels.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Revson Bracelet is classified as costume jewelry and usually priced accordingly, ranging from $99 to upwards of $1,000. So if you\u2019re wowed by the low price of what appears to be an authentic Cartier Love Bracelet, which retails upward of $4000 at the least, proceed with caution as it could be a mis-listed Revson Bracelet.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about authentic versus forged Carter Love Bracelets, visit our story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/authentication-cartier\/\">\u201cHow to Spot a Fake Cartier Love Bracelet\u201d here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/brands\/cartier\/top-sellers\/cartier-love.html?categoryId%5B0%5D=20&amp;order=position&amp;p=1&amp;mustHaveCategoryId=825&amp;section=marketplace\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CARTIER-LOVE-BRACELET_FOOTER_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CARTIER-LOVE-BRACELET_FOOTER_03.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CARTIER-LOVE-BRACELET_FOOTER_03-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/CARTIER-LOVE-BRACELET_FOOTER_03-200x61.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re shopping for a pre-owned Cartier Love Bracelet and find one at a jaw-dropping, seems-to-good-to-be-true cost, read on. You may be mistakenly browsing a vintage Revson Bracelet that is not worth the same value as an authentic Cartier Love Bracelet. In 1970, Cartier designer Aldo Cipullo partnered with Charles Revson, the founder of Revlon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,6],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brand-spotlight","category-education","tag-cartier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19917,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/19917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}