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Royal Albert 100 Years of Royal Albert Teacups and Saucers, Set of 5, 1900-1940 $135.99 As it embarks on a new century of fine china design, Royal Albert honors the artistic achievements of the one it has so faithfully chronicled with this stunning 100 Years of Royal Albert tribute collection. Employing classic shapes and delicate floral motifs, the 10-part series, which includes teaware, figurines, and brooches, recalls major British historical events and style trends from each deca... |
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Throughout history, jewelry boxes were built and designed by craftsmen, one box at a time. With the Industrial Revolution was the concept of mass production, eagerly adopted by the United States during the 19th century. For the first time, items such as jewelry boxes, can be cast in much less expensive to produce. And now there is a middle class in America, able to purchase decorative items, not just the essentials.
American ladies of the 1900s aspired to great style of large cities as London and Paris. Order catalogs, Sears, Ward, and the quarterback, enabled the average family to shop from home, including jewelry boxes. Jewellers also displayed in their windows the latest designs purchased from wholesalers. jewelry boxes were available in all sizes, from the smallest grid ring handkerchief and even glove sized boxes. Your fund can be a beautiful as the top.
Joya Jewellery boxes and trinket boxes were classified Art Items such as metal, and plated in gold, silver, copper or ivory. A popular belief is that there was iron in the metal. The most common metals for jewelry were Matas actually lead or antimony. Almost all alloys used were of metals with low melting point, explaining the broken hinges often seen today.
Manufacturers experimented with various finishes. Most jewelers first with electrolytic copper, and then finished with gold or silver. Other improvements were French Bronze, Roman gold, Pompeii Gold, French Gray, silver medal in Paris. Around 1911, just ivory was introduced, achieved by painting with white enamel, then applying of various oxides, resulting in Old Ivory, Oriental Ivory, Old Ivory Old Ivory tinted. Enamel finished boxes were more durable than gold or silver boxes.
jewelry boxes were filled with pale fine silks from Japan and China, also with faille, satin or satin, and were often trimmed with braided cable satin. Some boxes were filled with brightly colored velvet.
International trade and travel drew attention to decorative styles all over the world. For example, classic styles, the Victorian era, Art Nouveau in France, and the discoveries of the world like the Egyptian tombs. And Americans began to reflect about their own history, with a renewed interest in the colonial era. Everything is reflected in Jewel boxes.
The most prominent decorative style of jewelry box for 1900 was Art Nouveau style, a romantic style noted for its flowing lines, asymmetrical, with motifs related to nature. Most of the reasons today associate with elegant Art Nouveau nymph young women, "but floral occupied an important place in the American world Nouveau jewelry box. the language of flowers was a popular concept during the Victorian era. well, floral sentiments reflected in the modernist style in jewelry boxes, the four-leaf clover good luck, daisies for innocence, roses for love and beauty, and so on.
There were several manufacturers of American Art designed metal and produced jewel boxes. For example, Jennings Brothers, Kronheim and Oldenbusch Benedict, NB Rogers, The Art Metal Works, Brainard and Wilson who patented one of the early designs Nouveau jewelry, and Weidlich Brothers had several patents on their colonial designs.
Many of these manufacturers or registered trademarks of their jewelers. However, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward implied in their early catalogs were the manufacturers supply the goods. They do not mark on some items they sold. So. you can find two identical jewel boxes, one with a signature, one without.
The peak lasted less than 15 years, 1904-1918, but kept the term mass production a completely different meaning then than today. Gold and silver finished boxes were the most common. Boxes Silver not fared well, unless you really black, a rare find. Also rare are souvenir jewel boxes with commemorative ceramic or photo discs. The ivory finished boxes, although a little later in development, remain elusive. Their finishes are more durable, so it can still be delivered within families.
These wonderful ancient jewelers were more valued, and held their popularity until the First World War, when the continuity of breaking fashion, interest in decorating redirect the function and power of the machine. Fortunately, we can still find examples of the treasures 100 years old.
For more information about former U.S. jewelers can be found in THE BOOK Jewel Box.
Wiertella has been collecting cast metal jewel boxes for more than 20 years. When she visited antique shops, dealers just didn't seem to know very much about them. And so began her quest for information. Learning that there was virtually nothing current written about these beautiful boxes, she began to research trade papers/periodicals and catalogs of the early 1900's. They say that "everyone has a book in them," and so she wrote and published her own: THE JEWEL BOX BOOK: The Definitive Guide to American Art Metal Jewelry Boxes 1900-1925. Hardcover: ISBN 0-9763710-0-6; Paperback: ISBN 0-9763710-1-4. The book includes descriptions of typical styles, floral motifs (and their meanings), metal composition, finishes, trademarks/patents/copyrights, sample catalog pictures, manufacturers (like Jennings Bros, Weidlich Bros, Benedict, K&O, NB Rogers), 500 color photos of jewel boxes, a guide to dating jewel boxes, and a value guide.
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