Antique Costume Jewelry

Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture

Product Description
This sumptuously illustrated book surveys the exquisite range of costume jewelry produced by haute couture fashion houses, a subject until now overlooked by historians and fashion cognoscenti alike. The term “costume jewelry” was coined in the twentieth century for the use of non-precious metals and jewels for human adornment. This book showcases the extraordinary diversity and exceptional craftsmanship of this jewelry in hundreds of beautifully reproduced pieces from such fashion houses as Chanel, Balenciaga, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, and Givenchy.

About The Author
Florence Müller has written many books and catalogues and organized several exhibitions on fashion history and the phenomenon of contemporary fashion. She teaches these subjects at the Institut français de la Mode.

Florence Müller has written many books and catalogues and organized several exhibitions on fashion history and the phenomenon of contemporary fashion. She teaches these subjects at the Institut français de la Mode.

Costume Jewelry Identification and Price Guide (Confident Collector)

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 designer
• The most current prices available
• Detailed descriptions and photos for easy identification
• Tips on buying and selling
• How to spot fakes and forgeries
• Detailed bibliography
• Predictions about hot trends of the future

Costume Jewelry in Vogue

Costume Jewelry Variations: A Collector's Identification and Price Guide

Book Description
Many are drawn to the artistic construction and beauty of costume jewelry, but don't know enough about it to start a collection. One of the country's leading experts on jewelry collecting provides this new guide as a roadmap for starting collections. Author Marion Cohen focuses on four distinctive and extremely popular categories of costume jewelry: multipurpose jewelry, clips, motion jewelry, and figural jewelry.

A detailed introductory section explores all aspects of costume jewelry--what it is, why collect it, and where to find it, and each of the four major sections introduces collectors to the variations of costume jewelry. With hundreds of listings and photographs, collectors will quickly and confidently identify pieces to add to their collections; plus, get information on caring for collectible pieces and identifying reproductions.

* Includes information on the what, why, and where of collecting costume jewelry * An indispensable tool for beginning collectors * Features multipurpose jewelry, clips, motion jewelry, and figural jewelry

About The Author
Marian Cohen, best known for her long-running column in Antique Trader? Weekly, is one of the country's leading experts on jewelry collecting. She was the primary contributor to the Antique Trader? Jewelry Price Guide.

Costume Jewelry: A Collector's Guide (Miller's Collector's Guide)

Book Description
Millers Collectors Guides is a series of books aimed at providing an essential introduction to varied and popular subjects for the budding collector. Reflecting the growing trend in the antiques market towards "collectibles" (small, often affordable items) these practical guides are filled with ideas on how to form a collection, what to specialize in, and how to identify objects. Often showing specially photographed items, these are guides no collector can afford to be without.

From the Author
Tracey Tolkien is an American international dealer and author living in the UK. A Vintage clothing & accessories expert, Tracy owns a shop, Steinberg & Tolkien, on King's Road in London. A graduate of Courtauld Institute, Tracy combines her talent as a writer/consultant with her passion for her subject. She has written Vintage: The Art of Dressing Up and A Collector's Guide to Costume Jewelry.

Caroline Bahr is a writer and researcher who has worked extensively in art & antiques publishing. From 1993 to 1996 she was editor of Sotheby's PREVIEW magazine; she has written for the INDEPENDENT and the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH newspapers.

Costume Jewelry: How to Compare and Value (Miller's How to Compare and Value)

Product Description
Once considered the gaudy stepchild of "real" jewelry, costume jewelry is enjoying explosive growth in popularity and respect among collectors. This illustrated guide uses 70 color photographs and expert appraisal techniques to explain why similar-appearing pieces can have markedly different values, and provides professional advice for finding and buying affordable pieces that should appreciate over time. The jewelry ranges from Celtic-inspired Victorian era brooches through the innovative Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco movements, and continuing onto the big-flash, big-attitude styles of the 1980s. Potential auction values for representative and signature pieces are provided, along with concise histories for many of the great designers, such as Trifari, Ken Layne, Haskell, and Chanel, as well as the major schools.  

Costume Jewelry: Identification And Price Guide

Costume Jewelry: The Fun of Collecting

Book Description
The delight in owning colored and large-stone costume jewelry has grown over the last ten years among an international group of enthusiasts. This popular field of collecting is imaginatively conveyed through appealing photographs and thoroughly researched text in this expanded new edition. Both the famous and the little-known designers of costume jewelry are represented by carefully chosen examples, as well as the majority of pieces which bear no signature at all. Here one can see hundreds of necklaces, complete and partial sets, bracelets, rings, earrings and hair ornaments made with a wide variety of colored and opaque glass stones, metals, and plastics. The price guide relects the current market. Collectors, dealers, and fashion historians will enjoy the many beautiful examples shown here.

Costume Jewelry: The Great Pretenders

Book Description
Here is a beautiful publication of factual information and 1043 color illustrated examples of highly popular styles. Important and prolific designers of costume jewelry, including Chanel, Schiaparelli, Boucher, Miriam Haskell, Monet, Sarah Coventry, and many more are well represented. Current prices are included to aid the collector. This will be a most useful reference for collector and dealers, and the current value ranges will aid and inform all.

Fabulous Costume Jewelry: History of Fantasy and Fashion in Jewels

Book Description
This gorgeous book is a delight for all who are interested in fine craftsmanship, beautiful jewelry, and the role of fashion in an ever-changing world. Costume jewelry is an intimate reflection of its age. Shaped by the attitudes and fashion of the women who wear it, this jewelry reveals their temperaments, their fantasies, and the spirit of their times. This lushly illustrated book is a comprehensive retrospective of commercial costume jewelry, from 18th century Georgian, Neo Classic, and Romantic pieces to 20th century Edwardian, Art Deco, Cocktail, and modern "Glam Rock" jewelry. It discusses in great depth the roots of jewelry movements, the cultural trends that influenced jewelry designers-industrialism, wartime, the growth of Hollywood, technological breakthroughs, and the women's movement-and the effects jewelry had on women's fashions.

About The Author
Author Vivienne Becker, who resides in London, has worked extensively in the antique jewelry trade. She organized the 1987 exhibition of Rene Lalique's jewelry and has written extensively about jewelry, including the book Art Nouveau Jewelry.

Fun Jewelry

Book Description
Whimsical jewelry animals, images of people, flowers, birds, fish, insects, ingenious tremblers and duets and totally imaginary beasts comprise a delightful cross-section of styles that all can be described as "fun." These are the mechanical and light-hearted designs that tickle one's humor and provoke a smile. They may contain important gems and expensive metals, or they may not, for in this jewelry it is the design that wins the nod. Antique as well as modern jewelry, and fine as well as costume designs appear together here to create this appealing collection from European and American sources. Fun Jewelry contains over 400 beautiful color photographs showing over 1000 pieces and an explanatory text which identifies all marked pieces. Drawn from many styles and times, this fun jewelry is sure to become a favorite of all who enjoy decorative ornamentation.

, 400+ color photos, 8 1/2" x 11", Revised Price Guide --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Gems of Costume Jewelry

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German