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Frontiers of collecting.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)

From: The Magazine Antiques  |  Date: 1/1/2006  |  Author: Mayor, Alfred

Jewelry containing tiny photographs and fantastical cases now empty of the visiting cards they once contained are frontiers of collecting that have found their passionate advocates. One of the authors of Antique Photographic Jewelry is Patricia Abbott, a photographer, the founding secretary of the Daguerreian Society, and the owner of a featherless African gray parrot who has been "known to eat leather daguerreotype cases and daguerreian jewelry." The other principal author is Larry ...

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