Most of the small jewelry and novelty pieces were made for the tourist trade starting as far back as 1840 or 1850.

There is some debate as to what should be considered MICRO-mosaic jewelry and what should simply be considered MOSAIC jewelry.

We will refer all of the Italian made... mosaic jewelry, old, new, large tiles or small as micro-mosaic ... Because that is how they are generally referred to on Google or other type of searches.