This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American Costume jewelry from 1930-1950.
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.
The first volume, A-M, covers the companies from Accessocraft to Mosell, and includes Boucher, Coro, Eisenberg, Miriam Haskell, Hobe and others.
In-depth research of the companies makes this the best source on the American Costume jewelry industry.
Thirty-seven companies are included, with addtional chapters on "jelly belly" jewelry and patriotic jewelry in the second volume.
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.
It offers readers a meticulous, reliable instrument to knowing these gems, which are often true and proper little works of art.
This encyclopedic study is the fruit of twenty years of collecting, research, and study of the most significant American Costume jewelry from 1930-1950
