Avon® Collectible Fashion Jewelry and Awards

Avon® Collectible Fashion Jewelry and Awards
Author: Monica Lynn Clements
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780764305238

Avon has been a major supplier of costume jewelry since the 1970s and much is found in collectibles markets today. This guide has 450 color photos and current values for more than a thousand pieces including popular holiday creations, replicas of historic masterpieces, men's watches, children's charms, novelty wear, perfumed pins and more.

Identifying Avon Jewelry

Identifying Avon Jewelry
Author: Sandra Sturdivant
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764330612

Open this book to find 3,200 glittering jewelry items distributed by Avon Products, Inc. from 1965 to 2006. It is an almost complete record of the company's production. Read the authority's guide to identifying each design by its official name and date of release, based on the original company brochures, along with current market values. Then go to your jewelry box and see your collection in a different light; now you, too, can become an authority. Learn how the Avon company evolved since 1886. The jewelry line began in 1965 and grew, through original designs and direct marketing home parties, into a giant with about 250 new designs each year. Avon packaging is also an important part of the jewelry's success, and here you will see all the variations that are so desirable among collectors today. Some of the original box styles may even inspire designers today to "think outside the box." This comprehensive new book will become the standard reference for Avon jewelry because it is handsome, complete, and wholly accurate. What more could a jewelry lover want?

Sarah Coventry® Jewelry

Sarah Coventry® Jewelry
Author: Kay Oshel
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764317040

Sarah Coventry*R jewelry was produced from 1949 through 1984 and is extremely popular with collectors today. This beautiful book provides detailed information about dates of manufacture and company names for Sarah Coventry brooches, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, and sets. Includes current market values, original catalog material, interviews with former employees, collector tips, glossary, index.

Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry

Signed Beauties of Costume Jewelry
Author: Marcia Sparkles Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781574323672

This book will teach any collector to identify the company that produced that enchanting piece of costume jewelry. Arranged alphabetically for the reader's convenience, the book highlights jewelry from 24 companies that is easily found and affordable. Home party plan Emmons, Sarah Ann Coventry, and Judy Lee; door-to-door Avon including Elizabeth Taylor and Kenneth Jay Lane designs; Monet, Napier, BSK, Art, Marvella, Western Germany, Gerry, Park Lane, B. David, Cathe, Dodds; the butterflies of La Roco; the whimsicals from JJ; and Les Bernard, Lisner, and Celebrity are all included in this beautiful book, which presents almost 400 full-color photographs. Tips on field identification and characteristics of the companies are included.

Coro Jewelry

Coro Jewelry
Author: Marcia Sparkles Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-10-15
Genre: Costume jewelry
ISBN: 9781574324129

Two volumes of Signed Costume Jewelry, displays over 600 color photographs with identification and values in Coro Jewelry. Advertisements spanning the years 1943 to 1961 are included, as well as illustrations of the Canadian, English, and American plants and salesrooms. There are chapters devoted to Coro, Corocraft, Vendome, Francois, Mylu, and the company's international connections, including Mexico. Biographies and photographs of important company officers are featured. An additional.

The Napier Co

The Napier Co
Author: Melinda L. Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1011
Release: 2013
Genre: Costume jewelry
ISBN: 9780974374062

The Napier Jewelry book is a visual encyclopedia of Napier Costume Jewelry. It tells the heretofore untold and phenomenal story of The Napier Co. inception, development, flowering, and ultimate success. It chronicles the history of its management, manufacturing, marketing, and most importantly, the unparalleled beauty of Napier fashion jewelry. With approximately 4000 pictures of Napier jewelry history and over 250,000 words of text and descriptions, you will be taken step-by-step, decade by decade, through the development of the Napier style. As a collector, you will learn to recognize the findings, materials, and designs to appropriately circa-date the Napier jewelry in which you are investing. As a lover of vintage costume jewelry, you will enjoy the drama and excitement of the trials, tribulations, and breakthroughs at each stage of the Napier journey. In the end, you will have a deep and lasting appreciation of the romantic story infused into the metal, gemstones, crystals, cabochons, and elegance of each piece of Napier jewelry that you own or are considering owning

Identifying Sarah Coventry Jewelry, 1949-2009

Identifying Sarah Coventry Jewelry, 1949-2009
Author: Sandra Sturdivant
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764342141

Sarah Coventry became a household word by selling beautiful, inexpensive, costume jewelry direct to the consumer and remained in fashion for more than 60 years. This in-depth look at the history of their designs contains more than 1,000 color images and engaging text. It begins with the unsigned years of 1949-1963, covers the cardex years of 1954-1965, includes the catalog years of 1966-1984, and has a smattering of beauties from the years after Lifestyle Brands acquired the rights to the trademark for other concerns. All of it has been carefully researched and documented, and presented here in full color form. Complete with a thorough genealogy of founder C. H. Stuart and his family, this is a great resource for jewelry collectors, historians, and fashion designers.

Bud Hastin's Avon Collector's Encyclopedia

Bud Hastin's Avon Collector's Encyclopedia
Author: Bud Hastin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Bottles
ISBN: 9781574325652

This book showcases Avon and California Perfume Company products produced from 1886 to 2007. For the first time since the book was produced in 1969, Hastin's ever-popular Avon reference includes hundreds of new color photographs! The addition of color to a large portion of this book will delight dedicated fans of the encyclopedia. Preserving the same format as the last editions, the book still includes over 200 categories: men's and women's sets; bottles; perfumes; colognes; jars; soaps; plates; samples and demonstrator kits; Albee figurines; Avon representative awards; men's, women's, and children's decanters; and more. Dates, pertinent facts about colors and variations, and current market values are included. You will love the new look of Bud Hastin's Avon Collector's Encyclopedia! 2008 values.

Walking Up a Rainbow

Walking Up a Rainbow
Author: Theodore Taylor
Publisher: HarperTeen
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1996-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780380725922

Inheriting her parent's Iowa sheep farm and an enormous debt when she is orphaned, fourteen-year-old Susan Carlisle heads to California in the hopes of selling the sheep and experiences adventure and romance on the American frontier. Original.

Bet You Can't!

Bet You Can't!
Author: Vicki Cobb
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1983-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780380545025

With this collection of irresistible bets, you can team up with science and be a winner every time. Stump your family, friends, or favorite enemy with these deceptively simple dares. They're all impossible to perform thanks to principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, energy and perception. For every trick -- whether it be blowing up a balloon in a bottle or kissing your elbow -- the authors reveal the natural cause at work that guarantees human defeat. Here's an entertaining and enticing introduction to basic scientific principles that proves yet another: science can be fun! WINNER OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE'S CHILDREN'S SCIENCE BOOK AWARD