End of October Book Review by Sam Mitchell. Title: Unsigned Beauties of Costume Jewelry Identification & Values Author: Marcia “Sparkles” Brown Type of Book: Hard Cover Average Price: $24.95 to &16.00 In or Out of Print: In print Number of Pages: 270 Brief Description of Book: Marcia has put together a book focusing on the thousands of pieces of costume jewelry that were not marked by the manufacturers. NOTE: Reviews Based on the following Scoring Measure: 1 Being “Forget It” and 10 Being “Must Have” QUANTITY OF PICTURES: Comments: Lots and Lots of pictures SCORE: 9 QUALITY OF PICTURES: Black and White Pictures? Color? How good are the pictures? Are there close ups of the marks? Comments: All jewelry pictures are in color but the quality runs from Very good to Very poor. SCORE: 5 QUANTITY OF INFORMATION: Range of information offered? Is information thorough? Comments: Book offers some basic info but is not about information, but more About drawing your attention to the value of unmarked jewelry. SCORE: I am going to leave this one blank QUALITY OF INFORMATION: Accuracy (are there mistakes?): Comments: SCORE: I am going to leave this one blank also VALUES LISTED: Are they helpful or realistic? Comments : I thank that the valves listed are very good and if anything Are a little low SCORE: 8 USER FRIENDLY: Is the book easy to read and follow? Are things easy to find (table of contents/index)? Comments: I think the book did very good here with what it was working with SCORE: 8 TOTAL AVERAGE SCORE..... 7.5 Is this a must have book? Yes and No, Makes a good training book for the begining collector or dealer. Over time You will learn to identify the Makers of a lot of the pieces in the book. Overall Comments: To the beginner this book is just a lot of pictures of pretty jewelry with unknown Makers that seem to be destined to remain forever unknowns. But are they really? I have not looked thought this book in a long time. As I went through the pictures I found that I could identify some of the pieces in the pictures. A Eisenberg, Little Nemo, D&E Juliana, Czech, Austria, Germany, Wiese, Selro, but I must confess that there was a time that they all were just unknowns to me too. | |
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