Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
Costume Jewelry: A Practical Handbook & Value Guide
Highlighted Features
Costume Jewelry, A Practical Handbook & Value Guide is the first book to provide information regarding the investment potential of one of today's hottest collecting fields. The breadth of the industry is represented by different types of costume jewelry - defined as fashion jewelry - both domestic and foreign. It provides comprehensive information on a broad range of jewelry, emphasizing the more common, rather than the unique and rare, types of jewelry which most collectors are likely to encounter in the market place. Dealers as well as collectors will enjoy the more than 2,200 pieces featured in full color, and appreciate the wealth of information provided. The author explains the ever-changing market, value scales, and investment tips, as well as hints on cleaning, repairing, displaying, and storing jewelry. This beautiful, full-color book will be a welcome addition to all collectors' libraries. 2006 values.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #1 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 99 Reviews
Costume Jewelry (DK Collector's Guides)
Highlighted Features
A catalog of more than 1,500 collectible pieces features tips on purchasing costume jewelry, a guide to desireable prices, and a detailed history of costume jewelry from ancient times to the present day.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #2 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 93 Reviews
Warman's Costume Jewelry: Identification and Price Guide
Highlighted Features
From disposable bauble to collectible art form!Stylish and beautiful, vintage costume jewelry ignites the passions of collectors and fashionistas alike. Originally created as an inexpensive accessory to be worn and then discarded, costume jewelry is now considered an art form worth many times its original purchase price!Warman's Costume Jewelry sparkles with wearable art creating during the past 100 years, spanning the Victorian era through the early part of the 21st century. Dazzling jewelry images, histories, profiles, and current market values are presented by one of the most highly regarded jewelry experts in the country, Pamela Y. Wiggins.Detailed descriptions and up-to-date pricing information for more than 750 pieces of jewelryValuable background information about jewelry designers and manufacturersTips on dating and identifying costume jewelryWarman's Costume Jewelry offers a brilliant showcase for all the glitters!
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #3 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 17 Reviews
American Costume Jewelry: Art & Industry, 1935-1950, A-M
Highlighted Features
This 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, Reja, Trifari, to Uncas Manufacturing, with chapters on jelly belly jewelry and American patriotic jewelry.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #4 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 41 Reviews
The Accessory Handbook: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Buying, Wearing, and Caring for Accessories
Highlighted Features
A practical and inspiring guide to how to style, wear, buy, and care for every kind of accessory, from the New York Times best-selling author of How to Get Dressed.Costume designer and writer Alison Freer is beloved for her sassy, rule-breaking fashion advice, which emphasizes that style should be fun, personal, and functional. Instead of prescribing what to wear or own, Freer empowers you to wear whatever you want—and shows how to pull it off—with humor and wit. In The Accessory Handbook, Freer breaks down every type of accessory—from hats and hosiery to jewelry, bags, and shoes—and explains how to best shop for, care for, and wear each with flair.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #5 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 67 Reviews
The Art of Juliana Jewelry
Highlighted Features
"This exquisite book takes you to a jewelry Magical Kingdom of theatrical beauty, showcasing dazzling Juliana jewelry made by William DeLizza and Harold Elster from 1947 to the 1990s..."--Jacket.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #6 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 68 Reviews
Juliana Jewelry - The Last Generation
Highlighted Features
Juliana 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.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #7 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 39 Reviews
Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present (World of Art)
Highlighted Features
"Well written narrative…. remarkably fresh … This admirable volume is excellent value with its impeccable text and numerous illustrations."―Journal of the Royal Society of Arts From the simple shell beads worn by Palaeolithic hunters to the splendor of Renaissance gold work and the sumptuousness of Art Nouveau enamels, here is a fascinating and informative guide to the development of Western jewelry―concluding with the radical and experimental developments in the last three decades. Offering a concise survey of the entire field, this book analyzes jewelry's changing fashions, explores its social context, and examines how it has been worn by both men and women. It shows how jewellers have responded to new sources of gems, whether emeralds from the New World or diamonds from South Africa, and to the discovery of metals such as platinum and aluminum. Masterworks by unknown craftsmen and pieces designed by individual artists as diverse as Holbein, Pugin and Calder are illustrated alongside the glittering products of the major jewelry houses. 174 illustrations, 54 in color
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #8 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 29 Reviews
American Costume Jewelry: Art & Industry, 1935-1950, N-Z
Highlighted Features
This 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, Reja, Trifari, to Uncas Manufacturing, with chapters on jelly belly jewelry and American patriotic jewelry
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #9 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 63 Reviews
Unsigned Beauties Of Costume Jewelry: Identification & Values
Highlighted Features
This book is the first book of its kind, concentrating not only on costume jewelry, but also on those pieces that are unmarked or unsigned by the manufacturer. Over 1,000 photographs featuring 3,500 pieces of antique and collectible costume jewelry highlight this beautiful book. Brown carefully illustrates and discusses such details as the types of metal finishes used, the different cuts of stones, and stone setting techniques. Easy to read charts covering time lines, fashion dates, and jewelry introductions are provided for ease in identification of pieces. All photographs are indexed for easier research, and a helpful glossary has been included. 2005 values.
Features
Information
- Best Choice - #10 Costumes Jewelry Reference Books
- Checked on 26/05/2023
- Based on 16 Reviews
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.