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Popular Jewelry, 1840-1940

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This book is important to dating old jewelry because it is divided into "periods" of popular jewelry with lots of photographs to help you identify the age of a piece. It's like a little timeline. Chances are you have seen the jewelry in this book and you can learn about the era and the wearer...

As a vintage jewelry dealer, this is one of my favorite books, both for reference as well as for enjoyment. Ms. Ettinger has selected and verified the dating of jewelry for the most popular collectible jewelry types in the vintage and antique categories. As a pricing guide, her instincts are excellent in this ever-changing market. The narrations add to the pictorial information to make this one of the most important books in my collection. She reveals a good sampling of each era of jewelry styles, giving us a realistic glimpse of period jewelry popular in each decade covered. This book is well worth buying.

Sandra L.
Foxfire Vintage Jewelry

Roseann Ettinger's "Popular Jewelry 1840-1940" is definitely one of the must-have books that all vintage jewelry collectors and jewelry lovers should have in their libraries. The book covers jewelry trends such as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Transitional and Art Deco. This is not a book about the big name jewelry designers and makers of the rich and famous, but rather about the jewelry marketed to the general public. Having said that; however, as you leaf through this book, you'll find that the jewelry advertised in the Sears catalog or given away for subscribing to Mc Calls magazine were not less beautiful or less dazzling than the "real" thing. "Popular Jewelry" is easy to read. But what I like the most is the profusion of illustrations and photographs (both in color and black and white) of rings, pendants, brooches, chains, bracelets, necklaces, buckles, lavalieres, pins--and in addition to some magazine and catalog advertising of each period, that makes this book a feast for the eyes.