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JEWELS and the WOMAN

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by Marianne OSTIER

JEWELS and the WOMAN

The Romance, Magic and Art of Feminine Adornment

HORIZON PRESS New York

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Note: For centuries it has been the custom for jewelers to identifytheir designs by stamping their hallmark on jewels. The reproductionon page 20 is of Marianne Ostier’s hallmark. Unlessotherwise noted in the captions, jewels here reproduced have beendesigned by Marianne Ostier. All jewels are illustrated in actualsize, with the exception of the portraits and Illustration 17.

Credits and Acknowledgments: The author wishes to thank allthe people who have given time, information and encouragementto the work on this book. Particular thanks are due Mr. GeorgeD. Skinner of N. W. Ayer & Son Inc. for supplying invaluableinformation; Miss Dorothy Dignam, of the same firm, for herinspiring enthusiasm and knowledge; Mr. Lansford F. King,publisher of the Jewelers’ Circular Keystone, for his endless confidencein the work which made the completion of this bookpossible; and Mr. Albert E. Haase, president of the JewelryIndustry Council, for the many helpful facts from his specialfund of knowledge.

For contributing to the visual quality of this book, gratefulacknowledgment is made to the Jewelry Industry Council for thefrontispiece colorplates; The Metropolitan Museum of Art forIllustrations 1 through 8; the British Information Service forIllustrations 11, 12 and 15; and Trude Fleischmann for Illustrations28 and 29.

©1958 by Marianne Ostier

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-10224

Manufactured in the United States of America

All original designs as well as the text by Marianne Ostier areprotected by copyright and may not be copied or reproducedwithout permission in writing from the author and publisher.