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Author: Kathy Flood
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: 2007-09-26
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780896895621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFigural jewelry, a fashion forward choice, and popular item featured at top auction houses, represents about 75% of the costume jewelry market.
Author: Kathy Flood
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-06-11
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 1440215391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 4th edition of Warman's Jewelry: Fine & Costume Jewelry price guide is for any jewelry lover interested in jadeite, pearls, diamonds, figurals, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, sterling silver, beads, rhinestones, avant-garde, designer, antique Victorian-Edwardian-Georgian, couture, plastics including Bakelite and Lucite, gold, and even more exceptional jewelry categories. The book features a fresh and fun redesign with more than 1,000 all-new images. Scholarly information and helpful hints guide the collector on an amusing journey through costume and fine jewelry from the 18th to 21st centuries. The easy-to-follow format allows collectors to quickly identify their jewelry, plus concise and informative intro shorts tell the readers specifically what to look for within categories. The book is an indispensable addition to any jewelry library. Learn about jewelry without the usual tedium of non-fiction for a read that goes fast from the first word to the closing paragraph. Plus, read short interviews with category specialists. All in all, you'll learn a lot without realizing you've been ... studying.
Author: Pamela Y. Wiggins
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781440239441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides descriptions and prices for more than seven hundred-fifty pieces of costume jewelry, including background information, dating tips, and manufacturer facts.
Author: Kathy Flood
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-03-16
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 144021882X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe take-it-with-you collecting resource... Warman's Jewelry Field Guide 2nd Edition features more than 400 detailed color images and current values for some of the world's most stunning fine and costume jewelry. You'll also find: Key categories covering everything from funky fads to diamonds and pearls. A wide-ranging list of shopping resources. Essential factors to consider when determining values.
Author: Roberto & Carla Ginelli Brunialti
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764329821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American costume jewelry from 1930-1950. It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and proper little works of art. In the two volumes, over 966 photographs show hundreds of jewelry items in full color, with an additional 729 illustrations of patents, advertisements, and historic photos. Thirty-seven companies are included, with addtional chapters on jelly belly jewelry and patriotic jewelry in the second volume. In-depth research of the companies makes this the best source on the American costume jewelry industry. The first volume, A-M, covers the companies from Accessocraft to Mosell, and includes Boucher, Coro, Eisenberg, Miriam Haskell, Hobe and others. The second volume N-Z, continues with Norma Jewelry Corp., through Rebajes, Réja, Trifari, to Uncas Manufacturing, with chapters on jelly belly jewelry and American patriotic jewelry.
Author: Leigh Lesher
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-06-26
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1440219095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrinkets and treasures, that's the story of vintage jewelry. Today, jewelry is one of the most popular areas of collecting, and with millions of pieces on the market, there are plenty of possibilities for finding the piece that fits your interest and budget. Warman's Vintage Jewelry contains more than 800 color photos, descriptions and prices of stunning pieces of white metal and rhinestone jewelry. As a bonus, you will gain access to a history of rhinestones, including cuts and shapes.
Author: Julia C. Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 2006-09-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781574325294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe much anticipated sequel to Collecting Costume Jewelry 101 takes students through another phase of jewelry collecting--the basics of dating jewelry from 1935-1980. (Antiques & Collectibles)
Author: Paula Knutson
Publisher:
Published: 2013-02-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781481804837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuliana Jewelry of D&E, The Last Generation, by Paula Knutson & Karla Wacker focuses on the little known jewelry of the last 20 years DeLizza & Elster Inc.This 328 page book presents their high style designs of the 70's & 80's like a magazine fashion spread - on models with fronts & backs. Theme lines for Asian/Oriental, Egyptian Revival, Etruscan, Fox Hunting, Fraternal and Western. Rare slave bracelets, rings, duettes, ear wraps, hair jewelry, and belts beyond imagination.Over 60 pages of front & back figurals.Not to disappoint, some of the most rare and desirable rhinestone sets are included, as well as many never before published pieces.The book will delight and surprise seasoned collectors and provide a thorough variety of examples for those new to the fabulous five decades of DeLizza & Elster, Inc. with over 1500 color pictures.
Author: Heidi Ann von Recklinghausen
Publisher:
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781440229985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for pricing Hummel figurines. The text features valuable vintage Hummel figurines, prices, full descriptions, identification information and production status.
Author: Mary Morrison
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764333651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristmas costume jewelry produced in the last fifty years has never before been so carefully explored. Here are Christmas tree pins, wreaths, ornaments, Santas, snowmen, and other decorations set with rhinestones mounted as earrings and pins. Over 340 dazzling photographs display over 900 different jewelry pieces by noted manufacturers, some common and some so rare they are found in only a few collections. This is a book you will want to have when you daydream and take with you when you shop. With a revised Price Guide reflecting current values.
