20th CENTURY COSTUME JEWELRY 
by Ronna Lee Aikins

As the close of the 19th Century moved into the early 20th, the naturally-flowing designs of the Art Nouveau style abruptly changed into the symmetrical lines of the "Roaring 20s" Art Deco. These features are captured in costume jewelry of the periods, and evolve through the last century.

Aikins's new identification and value guide is a lush panoply of exquisite color photographs from all those periods, featuring celebrity ads adorned with representative jewelry of the period, and a handy glossary as well.

Entries are categorized by theme--flowers, gold and silver, rhinestone, holiday and miscellaneous. An interesting foreword explains the transition of jewelry through the century.

This lovely, photographic, 238-page, glossy reference is an invaluable resource for identifying and pricing costume jewelry produced over the previous century, and is a delightful catalog of styles as well.

Book #6555, $24.95 plus shipping
Collector Books, PO Box 3009,
Paducah, KY 42002-6211
visit their website at www.collectorbooks.com.