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200 Years of American Manufactured Jewelry Accessories 0764318381 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 purs... $25.89     View Details
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ABCs of Costume Jewelry 0764319132 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... $24.50     View Details
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American Jewelry Manufacturers 0887401201 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
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Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches PUB268 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
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Busiest House in America 1889 Illustrated Catalogue PUB148 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
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Celestial Creations Art of the Chinese Goldsmith 9789627101826 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
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Christmas Tree Pins O Christmas Tree 0764316567 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 ... $25.49     View Details
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Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers 0894670778 Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers - 0894670778
Winner of the Charles F. Montgomery Prize of the Decorative Arts Society: A groundbreaking reference on a colonial American craft.

This massive biographical dictionary offers the most thorough study of a group of early American craftsmen published to date. It contains biographies of 296 silversmiths and jewelers who worked in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution, records of more than 6000 examples of their work, and illustrations of 424 of their marks. It completes and amp... $34.50     View Details
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Fans in Spain Nancy Armstrong 0856675946 Fans in Spain Nancy Armstrong - 0856675946
Fans have a long history in the decorative arts in Spain. This book concentrates on the infinite variety of materials used to make fans; both the importation of those materials and their handling. Some fans were grand and gem-encrusted emblems of authority; others were mass-produced paper trifles with political advertisements on them. Spanish-dominated Central and South American countries provided brilliantly colored fans made from iridescent feather-mosaics, yet, just as important in their o... $13.27     View Details
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Forties Fifties Popular Jewelry 2nd Edition 0764318195 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... $23.95     View Details
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Glass Collector s Digest August September 1989 Vol III No 2 GCD198904 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
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Hattie Carnegie Jewelry Her Life and Legacy 076432151X Hattie Carnegie Jewelry: Her Life and Legacy - 076432151X
Hattie Carnegie's life story surpasses that of Cinderella in that it is true. Born in 1886, she went from being a destitute Macy's messenger girl who owned three blouses and one skirt to controlling, at its high point, a ten-million-dollar empire. Her five companies included custom and ready-to-wear clothing, hats, perfume, and fabulous costume jewelry. For decades, her personal taste and fashion sense influenced the styles worn by countless American women. Today, Hattie Carnegie's jewelry is... $23.97     View Details
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