Identifying Avon Jewelry


Book Description

Open this book to find 3,200 glittering jewelry items distributed by Avon Products, Inc. from 1965 to 2006. It is an almost complete record of the company's production. Read the authority's guide to identifying each design by its official name and date of release, based on the original company brochures, along with current market values. Then go to your jewelry box and see your collection in a different light; now you, too, can become an authority. Learn how the Avon company evolved since 1886. The jewelry line began in 1965 and grew, through original designs and direct marketing home parties, into a giant with about 250 new designs each year. Avon packaging is also an important part of the jewelry's success, and here you will see all the variations that are so desirable among collectors today. Some of the original box styles may even inspire designers today to "think outside the box." This comprehensive new book will become the standard reference for Avon jewelry because it is handsome, complete, and wholly accurate. What more could a jewelry lover want?




Avon® Collectible Fashion Jewelry and Awards


Book Description

Avon has been a major supplier of costume jewelry since the 1970s and much is found in collectibles markets today. This guide has 450 color photos and current values for more than a thousand pieces including popular holiday creations, replicas of historic masterpieces, men's watches, children's charms, novelty wear, perfumed pins and more.




Costume Jewelry


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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 designerThe most current prices availableDetailed descriptions and photos for easy identificationTips on buying and sellingHow to spot fakes and forgeriesDetailed bibliographyPredictions about hot trends of the future




Identifying Sarah Coventry Jewelry, 1949-2009


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Sarah Coventry became a household word by selling beautiful, inexpensive, costume jewelry direct to the consumer and remained in fashion for more than 60 years. This in-depth look at the history of their designs contains more than 1,000 color images and engaging text. It begins with the unsigned years of 1949-1963, covers the cardex years of 1954-1965, includes the catalog years of 1966-1984, and has a smattering of beauties from the years after Lifestyle Brands acquired the rights to the trademark for other concerns. All of it has been carefully researched and documented, and presented here in full color form. Complete with a thorough genealogy of founder C. H. Stuart and his family, this is a great resource for jewelry collectors, historians, and fashion designers.




Sarah Coventry® Jewelry


Book Description

Sarah Coventry*R jewelry was produced from 1949 through 1984 and is extremely popular with collectors today. This beautiful book provides detailed information about dates of manufacture and company names for Sarah Coventry brooches, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, and sets. Includes current market values, original catalog material, interviews with former employees, collector tips, glossary, index.




Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry


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This book will teach any collector to identify the company that produced that enchanting piece of costume jewelry. Arranged alphabetically for the reader's convenience, the book highlights jewelry from 24 companies that is easily found and affordable. Home party plan Emmons, Sarah Ann Coventry, and Judy Lee; door-to-door Avon including Elizabeth Taylor and Kenneth Jay Lane designs; Monet, Napier, BSK, Art, Marvella, Western Germany, Gerry, Park Lane, B. David, Cathe, Dodds; the butterflies of La Roco; the whimsicals from JJ; and Les Bernard, Lisner, and Celebrity are all included in this beautiful book, which presents almost 400 full-color photographs. Tips on field identification and characteristics of the companies are included.




Coro Jewelry


Book Description

Two volumes of Signed Costume Jewelry, displays over 600 color photographs with identification and values in Coro Jewelry. Advertisements spanning the years 1943 to 1961 are included, as well as illustrations of the Canadian, English, and American plants and salesrooms. There are chapters devoted to Coro, Corocraft, Vendome, Francois, Mylu, and the company's international connections, including Mexico. Biographies and photographs of important company officers are featured. An additional.




Juliana Jewelry - the Last Generation


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Juliana Jewelry of D&E, The Last Generation, by Paula Knutson & Karla Wacker focuses on the little known jewelry of the last 20 years DeLizza & Elster Inc.This 328 page book presents their high style designs of the 70's & 80's like a magazine fashion spread - on models with fronts & backs. Theme lines for Asian/Oriental, Egyptian Revival, Etruscan, Fox Hunting, Fraternal and Western. Rare slave bracelets, rings, duettes, ear wraps, hair jewelry, and belts beyond imagination.Over 60 pages of front & back figurals.Not to disappoint, some of the most rare and desirable rhinestone sets are included, as well as many never before published pieces.The book will delight and surprise seasoned collectors and provide a thorough variety of examples for those new to the fabulous five decades of DeLizza & Elster, Inc. with over 1500 color pictures.




Pictorial Guide to Costume Jewelry


Book Description

With a concise history of jewelry and some interesting insights on the possible origins of costume jewelry in particular, Pictorial Guide to Costume Jewelry informs without being preachy. It includes some practical tips and informative facts, as well as a few comments on present day costume jewelry. Illustrated with 700 full-color photographs displaying jewelry from the quietly attractive to the visually stunning, with clear and informative descriptions and a price guide, this book is a pictorial treasure trove bound to appeal to all jewelry lovers. The photo gallery consists of sections of jewelry parures and sets, necklaces and pendants, groupings, bracelets, brooches and pins, earrings, rings, charms, and miscellaneous and contemporary jewelry. A helpful glossary rounds out the book. 2008 values.




Bakelite Jewelry


Book Description

Vintage carved Bakelite jewelry, from the great style era of the 1930s and 1940s, remains a highly sought-after category of collectible interest worldwide. From ever-popular bangles and hinged bracelets, to pins, dress clips, buckles, pendants, and earrings, these little works of art are endlessly satisfying. The great carved pieces are hard to find, valuable, and much coveted. An eye-popping array of over 1,000 vintage jewelry items in carved Bakelite is explored. Organized to highlight their many patterns and brilliant colors, these little gems of fashion are displayed in over 300 detailed color photographs. This jewel box of a book honors the art and painstaking craft of carving Bakelite into fun and interesting personal adornments. Admire it, collect it, and enjoy it!




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