If you love Haskell jewelry, you need this book. In fact, you need this book if you love costume jewelry of any kind. It is thoroughly researched, beautifully photographed, and with exactly the kind of information for which jewelry collectors hunger.
Do you want a coffee table book full of beautiful pictures? Here it is. Need a price guide to Miriam Haskell jewelry? Here - with real insight and useful information about what makes pieces more or less valuable. Do you want to know more about the history of the company and of the people who made it? There is a wealth of carefully researched information, much of it never before published.
Best of all, for fans of Haskell jewelry, is the detailed information about construction techniques, designs, lines, beads, findings, and all the details that allow us to separate the wheat from the chaff, and genuine Miriam Haskell jewelry from the mountains of lookalikes and wannabees.
This is a masterpiece of a jewelry reference book. If only they were all this good!
