American Jewelry Manufacturers

The identification and dating of American jewelry has heretofore been difficult because few pieces bear standard markings, and references have been diverse, hard to find, and incomplete. Using old trade journals and their related directories as her primary sources, the eminent silver historian Dorothy Rainwater has exhaustively compiled here, for the first time, a comprehensive reference of jewelry trademarks and manufacturers in alphabetical order. She has also written a history of jewelry m…