Cleaning and Repair Tips

Sparkles
CJ Designers and/or Manufacturers

Ballesteros - sterling silver jewelry
Sol d'Or - The Celtic Shop
Dorothy Bauer Designs
Sarah Coventy Catalogs & Advertisements
Designer Articles

Charm bracelets - A Charmed Existence
Coro patents & history - Muse Jewels
Juliana - Morning Glory
Juliana - Past Perfection
Sherman Jewelry - The Family Jools
Walter Lampl - Milky Way Jewels
Jewelry making instructions

How to make Rose Petal beads
Jewelry making suppliers

Stone Age Hardware - semi-precious beads & precious metal findings
Rainbows of Light - wholesaler of Swarovski crystals
Material research

 Plastic History
Plastic Timeline
CJ Research Sites

 Antiquingonline's A-Z designers
A research guide featuring information on hundreds of jewelry designers and companies is at Illusion Jewels Vintage Costume Jewelry
 The Jewels of Austria circa 1960-1970 - The Family Jools
All about jewels: Illustrated Dictionary of Jewels
Vintage Jewelry Resource Site by "Eclectic Vintage"
An all inclusive  informational site for collectible vintage jewelry, popular designers, care & cleaning, how to identify, links to quality dealers & their specialties, learn about fakes/repros and much more!
Patent Info & FTC
FTC (use to verify terminology)
Sparklez - info from FTC "Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals and Pewter Industries"
United States Patent and Trademark Office - patent dates
United States Patent and Trademark Office - search by patent or design number
Silver Jewelry research

Spratling silver
Obscure cj info

Stanhopes - miniature micro photographic lenses inserted into collectibles
 
Links