We are an authorized, direct-from-the-publisher retailer of NEW books. Our titles are ON HAND and available for immediate shipping. Table of Contents This book celebrates Charles Horner in many ways. The richness and diversity of Horner products are beautifully illustrated and thoroughly researched; the inventiveness of the Horner firm, the social history of the period and the character of Charles Horner are also discussed in a chapter dedicated to Horners life. Employees tell their story through oral history extracts while the initiative of management is conveyed in the detail of patents they lodged and a broad history of the firm itself. Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco style enthusiasts will discover in this inspired book the wealth of numerous Horner products and can enjoy the revealing company pattern and price books that accompany them. Thimble collectors will be pleased to find that this work features a chapter that was specially commissioned from Norma Spicer acknowledged as an authority in the field. Paul Atterbury states in his foreword: In design terms, Charles Horner was clearly not a Tiffany, a Lalique, a Cartier or a Knox, and therein, paradoxically, lies the importance of this book. It is all too easy to write about great names and famous designers for they stand on their own it is far harder to bring to life, and record for posterity the more mundane existence of a commercial manufacturer whose products reflect the actuality of the marketplace. Collectors are easily seduced by names, and books about names. In documenting so assiduously the companys story, Tom Lawson has given the name Charles Horner a permanent place in the collecting galaxy. - The first book to explore the extraordinarily diverse production of the Horner factory between 1880-1984
- Offers an insight into the design and production methods of mass market jewellery through the twentieth century
- A valuable and comprehensive portrait of a large and long-lived jewellery manufacturing business
- Over 650 illustrations
- Approximately 2,400 Charles Horner products shown
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