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Bakelite Jewelry: Good * Better * Best
Donna Wasserstrom
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Description for Bakelite Jewelry: Good * Better * Best
Hardback. All the questions about Bakelite answered in a colorful, richly illustrated book. Designed to inform as well as delight, this book shows how to rate quality-good, better, best-and explores the basics of Bakelite, from dealers' secrets to historical facts. All this, and a current price guide, will make this a favorite of collectors. Num Pages: 176 pages, 427 color photos. BIC Classification: WCP; WCR; WFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1310.
Bakelite jewelry was popular during The Depression because it was decorative, fun, and very affordable. Today, it is sought after and worn for the same reasons-except its affordability is rapidly changing. This book is designed to show off an extraordinary variety of this wonderfully colorful, always appealing, and sometimes startling jewelry, along with a sample of other objects through 420 color photos. It shows how to rate quality-good, better, best-and answers the many questions asked about Bakelite, from dealers' secrets to historical facts. The photos, the detailed information, and the indispensable price guide will provide beginner and connoisseur collector alike ... Read more
Bakelite jewelry was popular during The Depression because it was decorative, fun, and very affordable. Today, it is sought after and worn for the same reasons-except its affordability is rapidly changing. This book is designed to show off an extraordinary variety of this wonderfully colorful, always appealing, and sometimes startling jewelry, along with a sample of other objects through 420 color photos. It shows how to rate quality-good, better, best-and answers the many questions asked about Bakelite, from dealers' secrets to historical facts. The photos, the detailed information, and the indispensable price guide will provide beginner and connoisseur collector alike ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
1310g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764301223
SKU
V9780764301223
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Donna Wasserstrom
Donna Wasserstrom is a nationally-known expert and dealer in Bakelite jewelry and she also makes awesome wearable art using intricate beadwork that is exhibited in galleries in several states. Leslie Pi€a is a professor at Ursuline College, a specialist in twentieth century decorative arts, and a prolific author of books on American antiques.
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