| #1547406 in Books | 1990-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .85 x9.45 x11.96l, | File Name: 0865651191 | 191 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Tiara pron|By B. Weaves|This is an older book, from 1990, so most of the photos are in black and white. However, since most of the photos are old, they were in black and white anyway. There are some jewels and some paintings shown in color photos, too. It's nice that I haven't seen these jewels reproduced anywhere else (except for a few in Royal Jewels, this book's sequel).<|From Publishers Weekly|With her recognition of ancestral jewels as "emblems of family pride, visible links in the chain of history . . . encompassing the heights of human artistry and the breadth of human feeling," freelance writer Scarisbrick embarks on a surv
The survival of these jewels is a tribute to the successive generations who have preserved these links of their history.
