Collector’s Guide to Costume Jewelry, A:key Styles and How to Rec : Key Styles and How to Recognize Them – Tracey Tolkien

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This text explores the pleasures and the pitfalls of collecting costume jewellery, covering methods, materials and makers from 18th-century paste to the jewels of 20th-century style-setters Schiaparelli, Tiffany and Chanel. The book contains specially commissioned photographs of necklaces, rings, brooches and bracelets. Arranged chronologically, it reveals how leaders of fashion like Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker and Jackie Onassis have dictated jewellery trends, whilst the influence of exotic countries and past centuries has inspired costume jewellers to make such diverse pieces as Egyptian scarab necklaces and African-style wood masks. Included from recent years are contemporary classics such as John Galliano’s bone and skull necklace and Butler & Wilson’s paste lizards and snakes. A glossary of terms is provided.

Coffee table size, in softcover, internally immaculate, fresh, with clean crisp pages 144 pages. No Dust wrapper, boards illustrated per picture, pictorial card covers, firm and free from any creasing on the spine, a very good+ copy, used.

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SKU: 9780500280171 Category: Title: Collector's Guide to Costume Jewelry, A:key Styles and How to Rec : Key Styles and How to Recognize Them
Author: Tracey Tolkien
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year: 1997
ISBN10: 0500280177
ISBN13: 9780500280171
Condition: Very Good
Format: Softcover
Inventory No: 1209

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This text explores the pleasures and the pitfalls of collecting costume jewellery, covering methods, materials and makers from 18th-century paste to the jewels of 20th-century style-setters Schiaparelli, Tiffany and Chanel. The book contains specially commissioned photographs of necklaces, rings, brooches and bracelets. Arranged chronologically, it reveals how leaders of fashion like Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker and Jackie Onassis have dictated jewellery trends, whilst the influence of exotic countries and past centuries has inspired costume jewellers to make such diverse pieces as Egyptian scarab necklaces and African-style wood masks. Included from recent years are contemporary classics such as John Galliano’s bone and skull necklace and Butler & Wilson’s paste lizards and snakes. A glossary of terms is provided.

Coffee table size, in softcover, internally immaculate, fresh, with clean crisp pages 144 pages. No Dust wrapper, boards illustrated per picture, pictorial card covers, firm and free from any creasing on the spine, a very good+ copy, used.

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Weight 0.3 kg
Dimensions 29.2 × 22.2 × 1 cm

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