Author: Viola Press Publisher: ISBN: 9781798433881 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
Keep a detailed record of your valuable costume jewelry collection with this 100 page Costume Jewelry Collectors Inventory Book. Record important information about every piece in your collection, such as type of jewelry, date of purchase, condition, source for the piece, amount paid, and amount sold. With room for up to 1500 entries. Makes a great gift for that costume jewelry collector in your family!
Author: Harrice Simons Miller Publisher: ISBN: 9780380770786 Category : Costume jewelry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Popularized by Coco Chanel in Paris during the 1920s, costume jewelry -- from the inexpensive to the extravagant -- has come into its own, creating a skyrocketing market for both investors and collectors. This guide covers it all, from Coro, Eisenberg, and Trifari to Miriam Haskell and Joseff. Complete with the latest prices, descriptions, and fascinating histories of the most famous manufacturers, it provides new and essential information for every collector: Listings for every major designerThe most current prices availableDetailed descriptions and photos for easy identificationTips on buying and sellingHow to spot fakes and forgeriesDetailed bibliographyPredictions about hot trends of the future
Author: Julia C. Carroll Publisher: ISBN: 9781574325621 Category : Costume jewelry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning and experienced collectors and even dealers sometimes have difficulty distinguishing a valuable piece of costume jewelry from less valuable jewelry. Two brooches, both signed by the same designer, can have vastly different values. This book provides beginning collectors with friendly one-on-one advice on how to begin a collection and how to recognize good quality costume jewelry. Background information for almost 130 different manufacturers, including the author s recommendations on which pieces from each designer are the most collectible, are provided. Over 200 new photos have been added to this edition, bringing the total to around 900 full-color photographs. A new section on miscellaneous makers is featured, and additional, up-to-date information about selling jewelry on eBay is provided. Once again, tips on how to upgrade a collection by selling to dealers and trading with friends; tips on how to catalog a collection; and tips on repairing, storing, and cleaning jewelry are included. A glossary of jewelry terms, complete bibliography, and an index of patent design numbers round out the book. 2008 values.
Author: Joanne Dubbs Ball Publisher: Schiffer Publishing ISBN: Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
What does the American novel look like in the foundational period of the early American republic? This collection of essays sets out to present the current state of criticism in an area that is at once extremely familiar and just beginning to be studied.
Author: Tracy Tolkien Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 9780500280171 Category : Costume jewelery Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
This text explores the pleasures and the pitfalls of collecting costume jewellery, covering methods, materials and makers from 18th-century paste to the jewels of 20th-century style-setters Schiaparelli, Tiffany and Chanel.
Author: Julia C. Carroll Publisher: ISBN: 9781574326260 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why collectors flip-over a piece of costume jewelry to examine the back? Julia C. Carroll's newest book, Collecting Costume Jewelry 303: The Flip Side answers this question. Included in this comprehensive volume are over 1,200 photographs of collectible costume jewelry designs for 97 companies. Detailed, close-up photographs of hardware traits, construction elements, interesting stones, and signatures are provided for each piece. An entire chapter is dedicated to stones, providing the reader with basic information on stone shapes, nomenclature, and composition followed by an informative stone glossary. Interesting illustrations from a vintage hardware catalog help collectors learn the industry names for jewelry findings. Plump with information, this volume also includes amazing interviews with the families of Sandor Goldberger and Yoneguma & Kiyoka Takahashi accompanied by rare examples of jewelry from their private collections. Finally, for fun, this captivating book explores the subject of craft jewelry in the 1960s and 1970s. Colorful examples of craft jewelry, coupled with illustrations from hobby magazines, help collectors distinguish these recreational pieces from higher-quality collectible costume jewelry designs. 2010 values.
Author: David Salsbury Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited ISBN: 9780764319136 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
This book has basic information all collectors and dealers should know with over 500 color photographs of costume jewelry by nearly 100 designers. After reading this book, if you make just one knowledgeable purchase, or avoid a bad one, you will more than cover the cost of your investment.
Author: Judith Miller Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780789496423 Category : Costume jewelry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Co-written by antiques expert, Judith Miller and costume jewelry specialist, John Wainwright, DK Collector's Guides: Costume Jewelry traces the history of costume jewelry from ancient times to the present day. It also explains how social and economic developments, changing fashions, new materials, and manufacturing techniques, as well as the haute couture houses of the 1940s and '50s have influenced and inspired the industry. Over 1,500 collectible pieces are presented in full-color, in a catalog-style layout, with prices and sizes clearly displayed below each one. There are profiles of 20 major international designers and factories, including Joseff of Hollywood, Trifari, Miriam Haskell, and Christian Dior. In addition, pieces by 80 lesser-known names are displayed and priced, and there is a gallery of unsigned collectible pieces. Contextual notes explain the features that make the pieces desirable, and there are tips on what to look out for when buying. "Hot" collecting fields, such as Bakelite and Christmas Tree pins, are featured throughout. The book also includes a glossary of materials, a list of designer's and maker's marks, and a directory of specialized dealers. Book jacket.
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