Antique American Jewelry 1600-1900 - Colonial Federal Victorian - Important Book

Description

Jewelry in America, 1600-1900.
By Martha Gandy Fales.
Published by the Antique Collectors' Club in 1995.
A sweeping and comprehensive study of American jewelry from its earliest days to the end of the Victorian period. The text is divided into four sections- 1600-1775, 1775-1825, 1825-1875, and 1875-1900, and includes mourning jewelry, miniatures, hairwork, "Societal" jewelry, hair jewelry, bridal jewelry, revival styles, novelties, and work in diamonds, pearls, garnets, quarts, gold & silver, topaz, amethyst, pastes, amber, jet, coral, colored gems, and more. Very well illustrated and thoroughly researched- a gem of a book, so to speak.
Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 447 pages, filled with color and black & white illustrations, dust jacket. Jacket with some rubbing, else fine.
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