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This book is superbly illustrated with hundreds of color 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, that is relevant, readable, and comprehensively informative. Written by an acknowledged authority on the subject and frequent contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery tracks the progress of jewellery design from early times up to the twentieth century. It will assist 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 color 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, that is relevant, readable, and comprehensively informative. Written by an acknowledged authority on the subject and frequent contributor to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow Starting to Collect Antique Jewellery tracks the progress of jewellery design from early times up to the twentieth century. It will assist 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.
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