Antique & Estate
It occurs to me, after writing the obituary for Dr. Joe, (see www.jckonline.com/article/CA6626315.html) that I need to help promote his goal of further scholarship in antique and estate jewelry. With that in mind, there are several things on my desk worth mentioning:
1.) Jewelry Camp, now known as The Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, is scheduled for July 17th through the 19th, at Hofstra University out on Long GIsland. Mark your calendar now – or better yet, just go to the website and sign up. You can find out all of the necessary information on the website, www.jewelrycamp.org.
2.) Upcoming events for the American Society of Jewelry Historians (ASJH in NYC) include:
Thursday, February 26th, Ben Zucker, gem dealer and collector, author, and lecturer, presenting “How Green Is Green?” Ben will be discussing the intersection among color, colored stones, color perception, and literature. (Reservations required).
And Thursday, March 19th, Peter Schaffer, co-owner of A La Vieille Russie, NYC, presenting “Will the Real Faberge Please Stand Up?” Peter will discuss the fake and real Faberge pieces he has encountered during his career, and how to spot the differences. (Reservations required).
I do want to mention that the presentation by historian and author Brenda Forman on the legendary jewelry designer Henri Vever last November was terrific. (A small portion of her presentation will appear here next week.)
If you have any interest in antique and estate jewelry, and you work in Manhattan, you should become a member of the ASJH and attend the lecture series.
3.) And speaking of lectures, coming up in Tucson, I see that Diana Jarrett, Heritage Gems, will present “Colored Gemstone Estate Jewelry,” on Thursday February 5th, in the Graham room, from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. “Before the marketing machine which unleashed focus on diamond jewelry purchases, jewelry wearers embraced colored gems. The relationship of Estate Jewelry and the colored gemstone world is such that an understanding of when and why certain colors were in use, what changes in availability of gems meant for jewelry design, and even how the availability of substitute and synthetic materials altered jewelry in a given period helps you better present colored gemstone estate jewelry to your clients.”
And on Saturday, February 7th, Diana Singer, D & E Singer, will present “Jewelry of the 50s, 60s, and 70s,” in the Greenlee room, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. “Either you lived through it and have fond memories, or you’re seeing it now worn by the trendsetters. This session is an in-depth look at this innovative and productive time period including Schlumberger, Grima, Pierre Sterlé and many others. The emphasis for this lecture is the development of style from the post-WWII period to the post-Viet Nam era.”
www.agta.org/tradeshows/gft-seminars.html
4.) Please check out the new online antique, estate, and vintage jewelry website, Antique Jewelry University, at www.langantiques.com/university.
www.jckonline.com/article/CA6625792.html
5.) For those that can spend a few days in Palm Beach, there’s the Jewelry, Art, and Antique Show, from February 13th through the 17th. There you can hear lectures by John Loring, Tiffany & Company, “Tiffany Style: 170 Years of Design,” Arlie Sulka, Lillian Nassau, “Tiffany Glass and the Quest of Beauty,” and Simon Teakle, Betteridge Jewelers, “Full Circle: Recurring Themes & Influences in 200 Years of Jewelry Design.”
www.palmbeachshow.com/Lecture_Series.asp
6.) And last, but not least, on my desk, is the unveiling (from last July!) of the “newly” restructured website for the Auction Market Resource (AMR). For those of you who do not know, AMR is an in-depth on-line report, by qualified appraiser/gemologists, of sales results of previewed jewelry and gem materials at auction. That’s right, pictures of the jewelry, a detailed description, and the hammer price. The latest updated version of the website is terrific. It’s fast, easy to navigate, with a new separate database section on hallmarks, trademarks and signatures. If you do any buying and/or appraising of antique and estate jewelry, I think you’ll find it worth your time to at least give it a go – or a repeat go if you’ve viewed it once in the past.
