Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — PHOTOGRAPHING JEWKLRY. [ARTICLE]

PHOTOGRAPHING JEWKLRY.

As a Promotion Against Theft it Work* Well. Photographing jewelry as a meant of its protection is likely to become popular now that the picture of a valuable diamond brooch led to its recognition and recovery. But it is doubtful if there is one woman among ten who owns costly jewelry that ever thought of taking this precaution. One photographer Who takes many pictures of women of wealth In New York said the other day that few of them ever had themselves photographed wearing Jhelr jewelry, since it had become the style to wear lets jewelry than formerly. He looked at random over half a dosen portraits made recently, and there was scarcely on any of their originals jewelry that amounted to more than a fpw hundred dollars In value. Yet the majority of these women own jewels worth thousands of dollars. In England the custom of wearing jewelry in photographs is much more prevalent than It is in New York. Pictures of ®ngllsh women of wealth and position usually display the entire contents of their jewelry boxes, and their tiaras, stomachers and necklaces are frequently conspicuous enough to be serviceable as a means of identification were they stolen, although thieves rarely dare to keep such things intact for even the briefest time. —Philadelphia Times. k