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chicagosilver Posts: 227 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 09-12-2011 12:02 PM We see a lot of Jessie Preston items, but most are holloware -- candelabra, desk sets, etc. A few years ago Skinner sold a Preston lot containing jewelry and a scrapbook, "[c]omprising fourteen pieces of jewelry in an Art Nouveau or Arts & Crafts style silver or metal setting, each set with hardstones or semiprecious stones, including ten stickpins, four necklaces including a choker; together with four assorted silver metal belt buckles with stylized geometric monograms, an Arts & Crafts style copper button mounted with a square hardstone; two loose necklace segments mounted with abalone and mother-of-pearl, a small rectangular brass plaque engraved 'Jessie M. Preston Oak Park, Ill.'; a scrapbook containing Jessie Preston's personal articles, including her birth certificate, her resum�, passport, letters of recommendation from various sources, and regarding her work with the Red Cross in 1918." This lot seems to have ended up at the Art Institute of Chicago. It added that she "was born in Oak Park, Illinois, October 2, 1873. She was the daughter of a railroad engineer, a graduate and post-graduate at the Chicago Art Institute, with many years spent in the design and making of jewelry. She also lived in France for seventeen years and studied art in Paris at the Sorbonne." Sharon Darling noted in Chicago Metalsmiths that "[j]ewelry produced by Chicago craftworkers ranged from bold to delicate in design and many pieces reflected the influence of Art Nouveau as well as of Arts and Crafts. Baroque pearls, moonstones, amethysts, opals, aquamarine, and other stones prized for the play of color they afforded were commonly used by both Chicago and English Arts and Crafts jewelers. A few Chicago metalsmiths, Madeline Yale Wynne and Jessie Preston in particular, began to incorporate bits of rock and pebbles into their work to produce novel effects." Here's a rare magazine photo of a Preston gold, glass, and pearl pendant on a very nice chain: IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 07-18-2013 06:29 PM I see that the scrap book and much if not all the jewelry in this collection is at the Art Institute of Chicago. I wonder if it was bought by the museum or if it was a gift. Seems you mentioned that the Institute had the group in their collection. Must read the entire post before commenting. The jewelry in the collection is rather well done. Fred [This message has been edited by FredZ (edited 07-18-2013).] IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 07-19-2013 04:26 PM The 22 March 1962 issue of the Gazette & Farmers' Journal, Baldwinsville, New York records the death of an 88 year old Miss Jessie M Preston on 15 March 1962. The article gave her birth place as Oak Park, Illinois and mentions that she was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago. IP: Logged

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