Avon® Collectible Fashion Jewelry and Awards (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Very informative and great pictures!

Didn't find what I was looking for in this book but did enjoy reading about certain pieces and looking at the pictures. Was fun to recognize some of my own collection. Nice book for those interested in Avon in general.

I picked this rating because I had never seen a book to describe Avon collectibles. It did not have all the info I wanted. I did enjoy the pictures and what info I could gather. I just got a tissue box almost full of Avon Bottles plus some 78 rpm records. Some awards that I had never seen before and that was the reason I had ordered the book.

For someone who is interested in pictures of jewelry this book would work. But it says it a book for collectors yet there is not much description on the actual pictured items. There were a variety of pieces but the estimated prices per pieces were so vague along with the year and whether or not they were gold toned jewelry or gold plated was undeciphered. Pictures of the awards were fun to look at but it would have been more interesting if they interviewed the sales associates who sold the jewelry and gave more detailed background of the jewelry and how their experiences were during that time period they sold items. Clearly there was no research done.

This book has full color photos with prices for the Avon collectible jewelry. I use it to price my jewelry for re-sale.

When a person purchases a book at the book store, they may thumb through the pages to judge the qualifications of the book, the authors, and whether it fits their need or not. I am slowly learning who the good authors are in the collectible field to know whether to purchase their books on-line or not. This was definitely not the case with this book nor another book I purchased by these authors. I wanted an Avon book to help me identify and describe the collectible Avon Jewelry that I have found at various estate sales, and thought this book could help. I was definitely mistaken. Anyone can state, "Christmas Tree Pin with red stones, circa 1990" as stated on page 62, instead of Avon's description of "Victorian Tree Pin" with the actual date of 1992. Or on page 39, authors wrote "Abolone (sic - spelled wrong) set includes necklace with 14-inch silver metal chain, silver bracelet trimmed with gold, and ring set in silver, circa 1990s," when there is nothing gold or silver about the set, except maybe washed in gold or silver, but definitely not true silver or gold; Avon advertised this set in their 1975 catalog, much earlier than 1990s. Then, the last straw for me is the beautiful set that Avon sold in 1971 (page 37); even though the authors got the date correct, they simply ignored the title to the set, but instead wrote, "pearl and gold set" when this set is Avon's "Evening Creation" set. Did the authors do any research? I think not. Will I ever be so stupid as to purchase another one of their books? No way! I would resale this book, but I don't want another person to be as disappointed as I was when I purchased this book on-line; not to mention that at the same time, I also purchased their waste of writing book entitled, "Sarah Coventry Jewelry."

Not what I thought it would be, but it is ok. I thought it would give current values not just the value at the time it came out.

Great!

アイテム別になっているので、 セットのものがとんでいたりするがわかりやすい。 写真があまりきれいではないけど、 一冊あると便利です。