Tiffany jewels

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"Tiffany & Co. began in 1837 as a small New York City stationery and "fancy goods" store, grossing a mere $4.98 on its first day. By 1845 the firm was successfully selling modest jewelry of good quality, and the future was clearer. As the mid-nineteenth-century industrial revolution made Americans wealthy and set them on a quest for the luxurious and stylish, Tiffany provided them with jewels of the highest quality and design."--BOOK JACKET. "While tracing Tiffany's remarkable evolution, John Loring details the work of its wonderfully talented designers Edward C. Moore, Paulding Farnham, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the firm's founder. The author sheds new light on the well-known Moore and Tiffany and for the first time grants Farnham's image the luster it so richly merits. Loring then brings Tiffany Jewels into the present with the stars of twentieth-century jewelry design: Jean Schlumberger, Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso, and others."--BOOK JACKET.