Everyone has a few items in their house they are saving for reasons only they know. Over the past few years I’ve worked hard to keep my pack-rat habits in check. However, there’s always one or two boxes full of … Read More +
Antique Costume Jewelry
10 things you didn’t know about jadeite jewelry
List compiled by Kathy Flood for Antique Trader. She is a journalist, author and owner of the online antique jewelry shop, www.ChristmasTreePins.com. Her latest book, Warman’s Jewelry, 4th Edition, from Krause Publications is available at shop.collect.com or by calling 800-258-0929.
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Collect.com’s first all-jewelry auction
Antique Trader jewelry columnist and Krause Books author Kathy Flood is heading up the first all-jewelry auction for Collect.com Auctions. With bidding beginning in October, collectors will be able to find the perfect holiday gifts for any women (or men) in their lives. Read More +
Exceptional jadeite group featured in inaugural auction
Think Lucille Ball meets Holly Golightly on the Yangtzee – and they sing a duet of “Moon River.” That’s the attitude one Collect.com auction consignor thinks the group of a dozen fine jadeite jewelry pieces should bring to mind for Americans who suspect they could fall in love with jadeite Read More +
No buyer’s premium for this company
The discussion of buyer’s premiums is always a controversial subject. For those of you who haven’t attended an auction that has one, a buyer’s premium is an additional charge levied on the purchase price of an item. The money goes … Read More +
In the Loupe: Playing 20 questions with jeweler Kenneth Jay Lane
Someone remarked recently she never paid attention to costume jewelry because her grandmother, a well-known antiques dealer, called the stuff “junk.” Sometimes grannies, even great ones, can really steer a girl in the wrong direction. Read More +
Warman’s Jewelry combines wit and style
Kathy Flood’s version of Warman’s Jewelry, Fine and Costume Jewelry, 4th Edition is not only a book to be looked at but to be read from cover to cover. Read More +
Warman’s Jewelry author Kathy Flood focus of teleseminar
Although readers of the June 30 issue of Antique Trader will get a sneak peak of the new Warman’s Jewelry, 4th edition by Kathy Flood (right), you can get a chance to chat with Kathy in an exclusive teleconference hosted … Read More +
Jewelry author/expert Flood heads first major jewelry sale for Collect.com Auctions
Collect.com Auctions has enlisted Kathy Flood, author of Warman’s Jewelry, 4th Edition, as an auction specialist securing jewelry consignments specifically tailored to interest Antique Trader readers and Collect.com collectors. Read More +
Collectors drawn to enamel jewelry
Metals may excite, bling may thrill, but enameling makes jewelry as aesthetically delicious as icing on a cake. To carry that metaphor further, collectors are currently eating up mid-century enamels by, for example, Kay Denning and Andre Bazot, known for their trademark raised frit cookies. Read More +