Jewelry

	200 Years of American Manufactured Jewelry & Accessories - 0764318381 Jewelry manufacture has its American beginnings in the late 18th century, and grew, over the course of the next 200 years, to be a dominant force in the world market. Internationally recognized as being of the highest quality, jewelry and accessories manufacture in the United States have made their way around the world and are found in collections everywhere. This new book explores the great variety of items produced from buttons and Victorian jewelry, to match safes, cufflinks, mesh purses ... $23.50     View Details Add To Cart
	ABCs of Costume Jewelry - 0764319132 Written for the novice, the ABCs of Costume Jewelry contains good information any collector or dealer should know. Over 500 beautiful color photographs of costume jewelry designed by nearly 100 designers are included. ABCs of Costume Jewelry will inspire a novice collector and new or small dealer, and increase knowledge of this fun-filled specialty field. Its non-technical terms and many illustrations derive from the authors extensive experiences, both good and bad. It is writte... $22.75     View Details Add To Cart
	American Jewelry Manufacturers - 0887401201 The identification and dating of American jewelry has been difficult because few pieces bear standard markings and the references have been diverse, hard to find, and incomplete. Using old trade journals and related directories as her primary sources, the eminent silver historian Dorothy Thornton Rainwater has exhaustively compiled here for the first time a comprehensive reference of jewelry trademarks and manufacturers in alphabetical order. She has also written a history of jewelry making i... $49.85     View Details Add To Cart
	A Source Book of Antiques and Jewelry Designs - 051767579X Collector's, artists, and students will treasure this compendium of wood engravings that presents a wealth of authentic material depicting the designs and tastes of America in the 1890s. These examples of Victorian American luxury articles -- selected and reproduced from the original mail-order catalogues in which they appeared -- are carefuly arranged for easy reference and use. With the close of the nineteenth century, a flourishing economy brought increased prosperity to Americans, along w... $17.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches - PUB268 Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches is The New England Watch Company catalogue, circa 1901, reprinted in full color for the 1998 by the Southern Ohio Regional, of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. Very little is known about this short lived company which was famous for its enameled cases. The book concludes with a short 1962 interview with George Tetro, a former employee of The New England Watch Company. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Busiest House in America 1889 Illustrated Catalogue - PUB148 This is a big catalog (472 pages) and it has a slew of products in it. Silver, particularly Rogers Bros, Clocks from Waterbury, Seth Thomas, Ithaca Calendar, and Gilbert Co., pocket watches with Waltham and Illinois Watch Co. movements, walking canes and fancy umbrellas, fountain pens by Peerless and Crown, pocket toothpicks, and lots of jewelry are all beautifully illustrated. Printed 30 years ago in 1974, the covers have faded somewhat. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Celestial Creations Art of the Chinese Goldsmith - 9789627101826 In this two-volume catalog, 395 items or 1,300 pieces of Chinese gold ornaments from the Shang to the Qing dynasties are featured. They are all selected from the renowned Cheng Xun Tang Collection. The catalog aims at providing a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the art of Chinese goldsmith. Presented in the gold ornaments are rich motifs ranging from flowers and insects to legendary figures and auspicious symbols. Alongside religious patterns originated from Buddhism, Daoism or T... $142.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Christmas Tree Pins - O Christmas Tree - 0764316567 For many, decorating for Christmas includes wearing jewelry with seasonal designs. The range of Christmas tree pins, shown in over 1,200 beautiful color photographs, described, identified, and valued here, will astound you. Over 1,100 different pins, from the mid-20th century to the present, made by more than 200 designers and manufacturers, are alphabetically ordered for easy reference. The identifying marks, company dates, and materials are listed for each pin. Beauty distinguishes many of ... $23.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Forties & Fifties Popular Jewelry, 2nd Edition - 0764318195 The lively jewelry made during the 1940s and 1950s could fill a book, and here it is. Thousands of examples of costume and semi-precious jewelry from this era pack these pages in 510 full-color photographs and identifying text. Wonderful advertisements of the period that feature the jewelry add a graphic sense of the clothing styles with which the jewelry was originally worn. Today, this jewelry is collected everywhere. The early designers of the jewelry are being recognized for their origina... $21.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Glass Collector's Digest August/September 1989, Vol. III, No. 2 - GCD198904 The August/September 1989 (vol. III, no. 2) feature articles were: Rose Bowls by June Grayson - A display of 16 rose bowls with captions. Included are Rubena glass, a Fenton Opalescent Blue Hobnail and a Louisa pattern, Westmoreland Glass bowls among others. Anchor Hocking: Jade-ite Dinnerware by Keith & Uni Marbutt - The Marbutt's survey the early years of Jade-Ite. Introduced in the early 1940s as the first heatproof glass tableware in the delicate beauty of green jade.... $5.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Lea Stein Jewelry - 0764313819 Lea Stein Paris is recognized as the most notable and innovative designer of plastic jewelry of the 20th century. She used sculptured laminated celluloid in novel combinations of texture and color. to create original animals, people, and abstract forms. Here you will find unusually shaped bracelets, pins, boxes, combs, necklaces, picture frames, and buttons. Poised foxes and scurrying children are among her best known designs. The jewelry is displayed in color photos with captions that provid... $30.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Plastic Passion by Steve Nankervis - 0764312138 This delightful guide to collecting plastic antiques for fun and profit is chock full of over 200 fabulous photographs and plenty of very useful information about natural, semi-synthetic, and synthetic plastics. It includes a concise history of plastics, items for the home, smoking, and drinking; jewelry and accessories; toys and more, as well as a glossary of plastics terms. Written with a lighthearted touch by a passionate collector, it has practical tips on identifying and caring for plast... $19.50     View Details Add To Cart