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This page contains links to Vintage Costume Jewelry Ads, Vintage Fashion Ads, Vintage Cosmetic Ads, Jewelry Designer Biography/ History and Hallmark Pages, Jewelry Articles, Jewelry Glossary, Collecting Costume Jewelry, Caring for Vintage Jewelry, About Costume Jewelry and more... We hope you will find the information useful in your quest to either learn about or identify vintage costume jewelry.

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About Costume Jewelry Jewelry Care
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Collecting Costume Jewelry Necklace Lengths
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Pakula Catalog  from 1955 - Coming Soon!

 

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Jewelry Books

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American Jewelry Manufactures Dorothy Rainwater
Unsigned Beauties of Costume Jewelry Marcia Brown
Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry Marcia Brown
Collectable Silver Jewelry Fred Rezazadeh
Inside the Jewelry Box Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 Ann Pitman
Collecting Costume Jewelry 101 Julia Carroll
Plastic Jewelry of the Twentieth Century Lillian Baker - with the update by Karina Parry and Ginger Moro
Costume Jewelry Fred Rezazadeh
Miriam Haskell Jewelry Cathy Gordon and Sheila Pamfiloff
Warman's Jewelry Christie Romero
Warman's Antique Jewelry Field Guide C. Jeannenne Bell
The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks Billie Hougart
Fabulous Fakes Carole Tanenbaum
European Designer Jewelry Ginger Moro
Collecting Victorian Jewelry C. Jeannenne Bell
Answers to Questions about Old Jewelry C. Jeannenne Bell
A Century of Jewelry-Classy, Flashy and Trashy Deborah Crosby
Costume Jewelry - The Great Pretenders Lyngerda Kelly and Nancy Schiffer
Costume Jewelry Judith Miller
Rhinestone Jewelry Leigh Leshner
Sarah Coventry Jewelry Monica Lynn Clements and Patricia Rosser Clements
Fifty Years of Collectable Fashion Jewelry 1925-1975 Lillian Baker
Coro Jewelry Marcia Brown
Mexican Silver Penny Morrill and Carole Berk
Tiffany Jewels John Loring
Costume Jewelry Leigh Leshner
Cuff Links Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson
Rhinestone Jewelry - Figurals, Animals and Whimsicals Marcia Brown
Miller's Powder Compacts Juliette Edwards
Vintage Jewelry 1920s- 1940s Leigh Leshner
What's it Made of? - Third Edition Sheryl Gross Shatz
Collecting Costume Jewelry 202 - The Basics of Dating Jewelry 1935- 1980 Julia C. Carroll
A Tribute to America - Costume Jewelry 1935- 1950 and American Costume Jewelry Carla and Roberto Brunialti
Rhinestone Jewelry- Figurals, Animals and Whimsicals Marcia Brown
How to be a Jewelry Detective C. Jeanenne Bell
Art Deco Jewelry Jakob Bengel Christianne Weber
Art Nouveau Jewelry Vivienne Becker
Copper Art Jewelry Burkholz and Kaplan
Modernist Jewelry 1930- 1960 Marbeth Schon
Handbags Barbara Hagerty
Art Deco Jewelry Sylvia Raulet
Gem Identification Made Easy Matlins/Bonanno
Secrets of the Gem Trade Richard Wise
Mid- century Plastic Jewelry Susan Klein
Memoirs of a Fashion Jewelry Manufacturer Frank DeLizza
Vintage Compacts and Beauty Accessories Lynell Schwartz
Jewelry to the Stars [Joseff of Hollywood] Joanne Ball
Theodor Fahrner Jewelry Schmundt, Weber and Becker
Popular Jewelry 1840 -1940 Roseann Ettinger
Juliana Jewelry Nancy Zell
Christmas Tree Pins Nancy Throwbridge
Christmas Pins Jill Gallina
Hallmarks of the Southwest Barton Wright
Warman's Costume Jewelry Figurals Kathy Flood
Costume Jewelry for Haute Couture Florence Müller
Jewels of Fantasy - Costume Jewelry of the 20th Century Deanna Farneti Cera [et all]
Faking It Kenneth Jay Lane and Harrice Miller
Shamelessly Nancy Schiffer
The Art of Juliana Jewelry Katerina Musetti
Brooches Lori Ettlinger Gross
Estate Jewelry   Diana Sanders Cinamon

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Deanna Cera
Vintage Jewelry Leigh Leshner
Enamel Jewelry Dale Nicholls and Robin Allison
Rhinestones Nancy Schiffer
Read My Pins Madeleine Albright
Form and Function- American Modernist Jewelry Marbeth Schon
Costume Jewelry 303 Julia C Carroll
Juliana Jewelry Reference Ann Pitman
Sherman Jewelry Caldwell and Yallen
All My Baskets Ricci
American Costume Jewelry Art and Industry Roberto and Carla Brunialti  
   
   

Websites

 
RCJ -Researching Costume Jewelry wikipedia.org
All About Jewels - Jewelry Glossary wordnet.princeton.edu

I am always purchasing books. This list is a like a living thing, always changing. As I purchase and fall in love with additional books, I will add them here.  

 

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