Ideal Signed

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Vintage costume jewelry, unlike the fashion jewelry sold in department stores today, actually appreciates in value so you have to know what you are looking for when purchasing. Identifying the profitable pieces to collect boils down to knowing what actually determines value on the market.

Costume jewelry is always mass-produced using cheaper materials like semi-precious stones. Costume pieces were basically your low-cost but flashy alternatives to the fine jewelry. None of the fashion pieces sold in department stores today will ever appreciate in value but this is not the case with most vintage pieces. Making big money is possible when collecting but you need to understand what determines value so you can purchase the most profitable pieces to resale. One needs to look at five different components to determine value:

Rarity

Market Demand

Originality of Design

Craftsmanship and Materials

Condition

The demand varies greatly among costume jewelry pieces and can play a larger role than any other variable when it comes to final price determination. Simple economics dictates that higher demand will command a higher price. Currently, signed pieces by Miriam Haskell are en vogue and commanding top dollar in the collectible world. Learning which pieces are collectible and which are just pretty is the most critical step towards collecting for a profit. True collectors seeking profits need to remember that the popular pieces do not always have great designs or materials--but they still tend to be more profitable to collect.

What, if any, variables will influence demand for a piece and perhaps make it more valuable? The design of the piece itself plays a large role in the demand for the piece and thus also has a big affect upon value. Seasoned investors sometimes avoid collecting the signed vintage pieces because everyone is already looking for them. Instead, they will focus on unsigned but well-designed pieces because they tend to be more profitable than many of the signed necklaces, brooches, etc. A large portion of the entire vintage costume stock is unsigned despite having been made by some of the most respected companies in the industry. The unsigned pieces tend to be undervalued and the most profitable to collect and one sure way to identify a particular manufacturer is by design. Unsigned pieces by companies like Bergere and B. David are highly prized by collectors and can be identified by their distinctive but High Quality designs.

If other pricing factors are held constant, then the rarity of the piece will greatly determine value. While there were dozens of manufacturers, they all produced jewelry in varying quantities. Profits tend to be lower when talking about pieces made by the larger players like Coro and Accessocraft who produced jewelry in large batches. DeMario, McClelland, and other small companies might only have batch sizes numbering in the hundreds.

When other pricing variables are held constant, signed pieces from the small companies tend to be worth more money. Still, careful research is required because even larger manufacturers sometimes produced specialty batches. These were smaller batches making the pieces more valuable than others produced by the same company.

The overall design is accentuated by the quality of craftsmanship and materials used to produce each piece. The gemstones are typically the most relevant materials to the price of a vintage piece of costume jewelry. Costume jewelry is literally defined by its relatively cheap materials and yet there were a select few manufacturers who almost always used superior materials and production techniques. When talking about gemstone quality, the best companies to look for are:

Bogoff

Bergere

Weiss

Eisenberg

As with all antique valuations, the final condition of the piece plays a pivotal role in the price determination. Be careful to note and account for any excessive signs of wear, discoloration, lost stones, or damage of any kind to the jewelry as this will necessarily lower value. Remember, even vintage pieces showing considerable signs of wear can still command $100 or more. As all vintage costume jewelry has some degree of wear given its age, collectors still make handsome profits by collecting and selling even the "ugly pieces".

Jon Kreps is a jewelry expert specializing in cameos, authentic Native American jewelry, and vintage costume jewelry

The Typography of Traffic Signs in USA

Which typefaces are used in traffic signs in your county, state or country? Do you have an idea?

 Why is it you are so conscious of the typefaces you use while typing your work and yet you have never noticed the consistent and largely standardized typography of traffic signs all over the roads you drive through? Because that is basically why those specific font types are used: To attract the least attention and emphasize maximal concentration on the message, not the orthography.

US and Canada predominantly use FHWA alphabet series with specifics on letter-shape and spacing detailed in the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices published in 1945 by the Public Roads Bureau. These specifics on typefaces design have been updated to form Standard Highway Signs.

Initially traffic signs were in capitalized letters and digits but a revision in 2002 allowed traffic signs to include lowercase extensions. State departments and the federal roads agencies have since 1927 used uniform fabrication of straight-stroke letters in traffic signs.

Today however, rounded alphabets are used since the Pentagon road network constructed in 1942. Mixed-case alphabets are also standard especially on freeway guide signs an initiative experiment of the Caltrans, formerly California Division of Highways.

The idea behind the choice of typefaces used in traffic signs is to maximize on legibility. For example, all-uppercase letters are used for ground mounted traffic signs with reflective letters while mixed-case letters are used for externally illuminated and projected overhead guide signs. It is actually common for most local governments, road contractors and airport authorities to fabricate typefaces for traffic signs besides using the conventional FHWA series, if particular isolated cases require such fabrication for maximal legibility. Common variations include the use of Helvetica and Arial typefaces.

 A lot of research has gone into finding out which typefaces are ideal to which traffic signs and in which environments. Some specific Street Sign like the left-turn prohibition sign which hangs from its gantry must be well lit for better visibility, especially at night or during inclement weather conditions.

Another example of how legibility determines the typefaces adopted, is the Clearview typeface, which was developed by U.S. government researchers exclusively as a typeface that improved legibility. It has since been adopted as the predominant typeface in poorly illuminated road areas by such states as Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, among others.

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what do you think is the ideal Sun/Moon/Ascendant?

..combination?

Hi Milk Biscuits

I'm thinking about the natural and exalted positions of the Sun/Moon & at the same time, trying to find a naturally harmonious trine or sextile aspect bt them...of course that doesnt exist! So my take is:

1) Leo Sun/Cancer Moon/Taurus Ascendant (Energies of Sun & Moon are at its best in Leo/Cancer, Taurus Asc or some other earth ascendant to give the Sun-Moon combo a little more grounding)

or alternatively, those combo with a Sun-Moon trine is excellent and an Asc in a harmonious element:

2) Aries Sun/Leo Moon/Gemini Ascendant (a little better than Leo Sun & Aries Moon i think & the Gem Asc or some other Air Asc to give some versatility & communicative skills to the Sun-Moon combo)

3) Capricorn Sun/Taurus Moon/Pisces Asc (Moon is exalted in Taurus & Pisces Asc - or Cancer Asc- sextiles nicely with both Sun-Moon combo. It would color the earth individual with more sensitivity & emotions, rather than appear cold & cut off)

Sorry, i know i'm supposed to pick one only...can't choose so just rattled right off my mind!

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