Customer Reviews

Jet Jewellery and Ornaments (Shire Library)

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Helen Muller provides a welcome service to collectors of antique jet jewelry. Her short but very concise survey includes a history of English Whitby jet (the kind that most Victorian mourning jewelry is made of), and its manufacture. She also offers hints about distinguishing authentic jet from its lookalikes. The book contains many black and white photos of representative types of jet jewelry and collectibles. A must for the collector of jet and mourning jewelry.

I sell jet, as well as Amber, and highly recomend this book to all my customers. Helen Muller covers mostly antique Jet, of course, but also covers the imitations that were popular at the height of Jet fashion.

In one small book you learn a *lot* about genuine Jet, and you also learn the one thing I have had to explain more times than I care to recall: Just beause it is antique doesn't mean it is genuine Jet! Jet was imitated as soon as it became popular, and many of the antiques (and valuable in their own right as antiques) are not genuine Jet. This book explains what many of the imitations were, and how to determine if it is Jet, or imitation.

Absolutely gorgeous pictures of carved Jet, and imitation Jet jewelry, with a lot of interesting facts about the Whitby England Jet carving center.

A must have addition to the library of antique jewelry colectors, flea market merchants, and re-enactors. This book is *required reading* for anyone looking to purchase genuine Jet for ritual purposes as well.

I returned this book so I might not be a good person to review it.

It was VERY expensive for a very short almost pamphlet on how Whitby England made it's Jet!

I wished to learn about Victorian Jewelry, not about the factory....

I don't recommend this.

I sell Victorian jewellery, have collected books on the subject for years. This is one of the best. Helen Muller not only shares her wealth of knowledge, of history and of the process of making jet jewellery, but she also makes it clear that this antique jewellery is truly an art form. Her illustrations, factual and meaningful information and life-long collectiohn make this a must-have book for any dealer or collector