John BenjaminStarting To Collect Antique Jewelry (Starting to Collect Series)

This book provided a lot of historical information on antique jewelry and the different designers. It was a huge help in classifying jewelry. It you are looking for a book to price a piece this book had no pricing. As a used book it was in extremely good shape as advertised and sent timely.

I ordered this book because I love jewelry and would like to start collecting it. This is a very informative book and is full of beautiful pictures.

Great pictures, great back ground information,interesting, only thing it needed is more examples of what is easily found pieces, but most helpful.

The book is very nice, however I would have liked a little more help in understanding the jewelry from each era. I am truly a novice and need a lot of help.

nice place to start. great pictures, nice variety, happy with my order, but would liked to have learned ittle treasures

A very interesting and instructive book for the beginning starter of antique jewelry. With a lot of beautiful pictures and explanation of different pieces of jewelry from periods in the 19th century.

Very good book, beautiful pictures could be more of each item like front and back

If you are thinking of investing in, or treating yourself to antique jewellery, or have any kind of collectors interest in the subject, then this book is great. Have you ever been drawn to an item description that includes words like 'Victorian', 'Georgian', 'fine antique' or 'vintage classic'? How many sapphires on the market are claimed to be 'Kashmir' or 'Ceylon'? There are a swathe of sellers who describe their second-hand jewellery with terms like this. This book gives a very good broad-based idea of what to look for to weed out the genuine from the not-quite-so-antique. The pictures are very good and very varied. The text is informative without being dull. If you are looking for a book of mega-expensive jewels to drool over, then look elsewhere. (There are huge, glossy coffee-table books out there with massive close-ups of the Crown jewels, etc.) This book does include some stuff that is waaaaay out of my novice league, but also includes more 'entry-level' items that give a real feel for what you might find for sale. The author clearly has a wealth of experience and the book reflects that well.

とてもキレイでした。配達も思っていたより、早く、この御値段。大満足です。ありがとうございました。

Great condition and wonderful reference book.Ideally I am looking for Victorian/Edwardian jewelleries reference book, which this has some detail in.Anyone have any other ideas of reference books I could look into?

全て英語なので写真だけでもアンティークジュエリーの様々な作品が見られれば良いと思って買いました。英語はなんとなくしか理解できないですが、比較的わかりやすい解説でした。写真もオールカラーできれいです。

I'm interested in all kinds of jewellery, antique and modern. and this book is excellent for reference.This book is by John Benjamin from The Antiques Roadshow who's opinion I have always respected. If you want to know about all kinds of jewellery from Paste, Mosaics, Cameos, Base Metal, Arts and Crafts and lots more, you will not be disappointed with this book.