It’s elementary, my dear Watson. This book helps any would-be Sherlock Holmes solve the mysteries that shroud the jewelry world. C. Jeanenne Bell, one of the nation’s leading jewelry authorities, puts her 30 years of experience to work providing clues that help separate the old from the new, the gold from the gold-plated, the diamonds from the rhinestones and the junk from the jewels. 
Combining logic with step-by-step proven techniques, How to be a Jewelry Detective is the one book that will help make hunting for jewelry not only fun, but also profitable. 
- More than 300 illustrations and 160 photos - 32 pages of color - Comprehensive list of designers and marks - Invaluable clues about fine, costume and Mexican jewelry

How to Be a Jewelry Detective: Elementary Clues to Solving the Mysteries of Jewelry (Antiques Detectives How to Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bell, C. Jeanenne

Antiques & Collectibles

A.D. Publishing

The original, How to be a Furniture Detective book, NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the Warman's book by the same title and same last name of the author, is written by Fred Taylor, one of America's leading authorities on older and antique furniture. 
This book will help you discover: how to determine the basic style of a piece; how old it is; how to identify the wood; how to examine a piece of furniture before purchase; how to determine it's condition; the clues that tool marks leave; how drawer joinery tells the tale of it's origins; how to detect shrinkage of the wood and what it means; what screws, nails and joints reveal, and much more.

How to be a Furniture Detective

Taylor, Fred

Reference

This book of "Resources" was compiled to be used with the "How to be a Jewelry Detective" book, also By Jeanenne Bell. Now that you have a good idea of what you have, this book will help you: 
Decide whether to keep it or sell it. 
Discover the best ways to sell. 
Select the best buyers for your items. 
Get top dollar. 
Decide whether or not to restore it. 
Get free estimates on repairs.

Jewelry Detective Resources

Heaven and Hell

History

SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL

Europe

The Secret Science Behind Miracles

This report deals with the discovery of an ancient and secret system of workable magic, which, if we can learn to use it as did the native magicians of Polynesia and North Africa, bids fair to change the world ... provided the atom bomb does not make all further changes impossible. Union is strength, prosperity and safety.

Self-Help

Long, Freedom Max

Motivational

Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery

Literature & Fiction

Seaborn, Adam

Genre Fiction

The Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct.

Aristotle

Classics

Collected here are three gnostic writings from Thomas, Mary, and John. These books that were left out of the New Testament shed lite on the life and relationships of Jesus Christ and his friends and family especially his mother Mary.

The Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Mary, and John

Thomas, Fr D. Ric

World

Pistis Sophia is an important Gnostic text. It relates the Gnostic teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha. Pisti Sophia recounts that Jesus remained on earth after the resurrection for 11 years. In it the complex structures and hierarchies of heaven familiar in Gnostic teachings are revealed.

Pistis Sophia: The Gnostic Text of Jesus, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and His Disciples

Mead', G R. S.

Literary

THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT

The theoretical knowledge of right and law in principle, as distinguished from positive laws and empirical cases, belongs to the pure science of right The science of right thus designates the philosophical and systematic knowledge of the principles of natural right. And it is from this science that the immutable principles of all positive legislation must be derived by practical jurists and lawgivers.

The Science of Right

Kant, Immanual

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the A.D. Publishing publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by A.D. Publishing