About this item
The 4th edition of Warman's Jewelry: Fine & Costume Jewelry price guide is for any jewelry lover interested in jadeite, pearls, diamonds, figurals, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, sterling silver, beads, rhinestones, avant-garde, designer, antique Victorian-Edwardian-Georgian, couture, plastics including Bakelite and Lucite, gold, and even more exceptional jewelry categories. The book features a fresh and fun redesign with more than 1,000 all-new images. Scholarly information and helpful hints guide the collector on an amusing journey through costume and fine jewellery from the 18th to 21st centuries. The easy-to-follow format allows collectors to quickly identify their jewellery, plus concise and informative intro shorts tell the readers specifically what to look for within categories.
About the Author
Kathy Flood is a journalist with a master's degree in the field from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She is currently a columnist and regular contributor to Antique Trader magazine. Another column was distributed nationally and abroad by The NY Times Syndicate and then ran for four years in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. Her column on antiques and collectibles was an exclusive for the Chicago Tribune. She is an appraiser and licensed auctioneer; author of THINGS (You can't take them with you but they're fun while you're here), a compilation of readers' favorite newspaper columns; Warman's Costume Jewelry Figurals; Warman's Jewelry 4th edition; Warman's Jewelry Field Guide 2nd edition; and a book covering unsigned Christmas tree pins, her gateway into jewelry after seeing 18 works of art in Vogue magazine. (Contact her at christmastreepins.com if you want to join a collector's society of holiday tree lovers.) Says Flood, "I just finished a Jewelry Face Book for Amazon, the title called Vintage Visages (see three of the brooches following author photo). If you collect autographed books, lmk and I'll sign mine for you. (The figural-pins book even comes with a free gift pin.) In the meantime on this page, enjoy the videos. They're short and sweet. Two are mine, created for the holiday season and its related jewelry. The third is Stuart Freeman's gripping split-second vid of the latest jewelry field guide, which is slightly chilling."
