Archive for April 10th, 2007

Perhaps you thought that camera phones were innovative and some might even be old enough to remember the comic world detective Dick Tracy’s two-way watch. What many may be unaware of is that “camera watches” first were introduced in the early 1900s. The Steineck Subminiature Wrist-camera,pictured here, is an example of such a camera watch […]

In the Roaring Twenties women bobbed their hair and sleek strands of pearls were worn by the yard.The thirties returned a bit of gentility to women and jewelry became more feminine and exquisitely ornate.
In the forties jewelry became more casual only to return with the ostentation of the fifties with jewelry designed to reflect the […]