Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry Identification & Values

This book has been a great help to me as a new beginner to Vintage Costume Jewelry. It has helped me to identify and appreciate the values on some pieces of jewelry. It has become an aid for me to value the jewelry I now collect and resell.
I would reccomend this book to any beginner collector.

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Review by an Australian buyer

This is a big book with hundreds of pages of illustrations covering a huge range of costume jewelry makers. The only reason I did not give this book a 5 star rating - the quality of the photos could have been better.
A good buy for the price.

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Plenty of sparkle, not much substance

I am a novice dealer and avid collector of sparkly beauties and found this book extremely satisfying for my inner raccoon. The pictures are clear enough and the selection is varied enough to keep that urge to sneak into your Gramma's jewelry box alive. However, to call this coffee table book a reference guide would be to put it in a class beyond it's contents. I found a pictoral guide to maker's marks sorely lacking. Also understanding the author has a limited space, and did include some of the great costume houses like Trifari, where are the other Kings of Costume like Coro and Sarah Coventry? They made spectactular pieces too. My Gramma couldn't have afforded most of the stuff in this book in her time; I found the selection a bit high-end and the pricing guide inflated.

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