Jewelry & Gems at Auction:
The Definitive Guide to Buying &
Selling at the Auction House & on Internet Auction Sites
6 x 9, 352 pp, 16 pages in
beautiful full color, with over 150 color and b/w, photographs
and illustrations. Index, Quality Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-943763-29-3, ISBN-10: 0-943763-29-0
Everything you need to know before you
buy—
or sell—gems and jewelry at auction.
A source of expert guidance to help you
enter today’s fastest-growing marketplace for gems and
jewelry. This definitive guide to buying and selling at auction
covers both the unique risks and opportunities to be
found—how to make a profit on yesterday’s treasures
or find a valuable treasure of your own.
Entertaining, informative and packed with
tips from an "insider," this practical,
easy-to-understand guide makes available—for the first
time—detailed information on:
• What distinguishes auction buying
and selling from other methods
• How to buy and sell at auction: The
rules of the game
• What you need to know before bidding
on:
- Diamonds
- Colored gemstones
- Pearls
- Gold and platinum
• Design and style: Great jewelry
periods and great jewelers
• Special concerns when buying and
selling on Internet auction sites
• How to avoid the pitfalls when
buying and selling at auction
• What auctions do guarantee, and how
to protect yourself against what they don’t
…and much more.
With comprehensive price charts and auction
results, as well as resource information on auction houses and
websites, Jewelry & Gems at
Auction is a book no potential
auction buyer or seller can afford to be without.
"This book is jam-packed with advice
for the jewelry collector and is highly readable and
entertaining. Whether you buy or sell, online or offline, you
should read this book."
— Ina
Steiner, editor,
AuctionBytes.com
