Book: Collecting Jewellery

Collecting Jewellery is a guide to jewellery through the ages, providing fundamental information for the collector, student, and enthusiast alike. TV personality and Antiques Roadshow expert John Benjamin brings his best-selling guide to becoming a collector completely up to date.

This guide covers jewellery from its earliest forms to present-day fashions, including new chapters on the ‘Modern Style’ of the 1940s and ‘50s, the ‘Designer Jewel’ of the 1960s and ‘70s, and jewellery right up to and beyond the Millennium. Through his expertise as a lecturer, valuer, and jewellery historian, Benjamin provides fundamental information to enable the collector, student, and enthusiast to recognise and identify jewels and designs through the centuries.

From natural to cultured diamonds, unique ‘one off’ pieces to popular prevailing fashions, Collecting Jewellery is an accessible companion that will teach the reader about availability, value, and fashion, while gaining the knowledge needed to create their own fabulous (and affordable) jewellery collection.