Tools for Dating Vintage Costume Jewelry

Collecting Costume Jewelry will take students through another phase of jewelry collecting – the basics of dating jewelry, – This beautiful and informative volume simplifies the complex process of dating vintage costume jewelry into six easy-to-understand methods. Over colorful photographs of vintage jewelry illustrate these methods. Beginning and experienced collectors will appreciate the large reference section featuring dozens of well-researched charts cataloging over design patent numbers and over carefully chosen original patent illustrations.

More than intriguing and attractive vintage advertisements are scattered throughout the text.

A woman who had received a clear Eisenberg fur clip as a going away gift from her husband when he left for the service in told me her husband had spent almost $ for the piece, a whopping sum for a piece of costume jewelry at that time.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to National costumes of Norway. Bunad traditions in Norway Nordic bunad and folk dress on Faroe Islands stamps In Norway in the postwar era, especially in more recent times, it is common, but by no means mandatory, to wear bunad at various celebrations such as: In recent years, its use has reached far outside folk dancing, folk music, and particular holidays.

Accepted as proper gala attire, it is increasingly common to see people, and especially women, dressed in bunad. The former Norwegian foreign minister, Thorvald Stoltenberg , made history by presenting his accreditation as ambassador to Margrethe II of Denmark dressed in a bunad. Moreover, people tend to wear bunads to festive celebrations such as anniversaries and birthdays, and for religious occasions including baptisms, confirmations and Christmas.

There is ongoing debate about the official status of various outfits, and what allowed variations are. Due to ongoing discussions on the status of bunads, it is not possible to state accurately the number of different types of bunads in Norway, but most estimates place the number at around