Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery – John Benjamin

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Why is Faberg, unique? What is champlev, enamel? Why should emeralds be regarded with suspicion? Which jewels contain miniature coffins? Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery tracks the progress of jewellery designs from early times to the twentieth century, assisting the professional jeweller, the collector and the student in making informed and balanced judgments upon scores of crucial topics from the setting of old gems, to fakes and forgeries. This book is superbly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs provided by auction houses, dealers, leading shops and private collectors. From Castellani to Cartier, from hair combs to cameos, Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery represents a key companion which is relevant, readable and comprehensively informative.

Hardcover, MINT, dust wrapper MINT, internally clean fresh with crisp white pages (189) fully illustrated in full colour, absolutely beautiful, like new.

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SKU: 9781851494071 Category: Title: Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery
Author: John Benjamin
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Year: 2003
ISBN10: 1851494073
ISBN13: 9781851494071
Condition: Mint
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 1211

Description

Why is Faberg, unique? What is champlev, enamel? Why should emeralds be regarded with suspicion? Which jewels contain miniature coffins? Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery tracks the progress of jewellery designs from early times to the twentieth century, assisting the professional jeweller, the collector and the student in making informed and balanced judgments upon scores of crucial topics from the setting of old gems, to fakes and forgeries. This book is superbly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs provided by auction houses, dealers, leading shops and private collectors. From Castellani to Cartier, from hair combs to cameos, Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery represents a key companion which is relevant, readable and comprehensively informative.

Hardcover, MINT, dust wrapper MINT, internally clean fresh with crisp white pages (189) fully illustrated in full colour, absolutely beautiful, like new.

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Weight 0.91 kg
Dimensions 24 × 19.5 × 2.2 cm

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