Costume Jewelers, The Golden Age of Design was written by Joanne Dubbs Ball and published by Schiffer Publishing and offered in 1990. This book is now out of print, is a hardcover edition with dust jacket, and has 208 pages. ISBN: 0887402550.

Ms. Ball presents interesting and insightful information about the periods, styles and signatures and the lives of the vintage jewelry designers. It's exciting to learn the history surrounding the artists of the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, while comparing things passed down from our families' generations. If you have an interest in fashion jewelry, but not a particular design or substance, you can easily read the names and histories of those who brought costume jewelry to its glamourous height, along with viewing the pictures of jewelry by that particular designer in their own appropriate chapter.