• A sumptuous, oversized, full color wishbook - filled with photographs of the world's most beautiful jewelry - is available from Doubleday Publishing.
  

  The Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club chose "Extraordinary Jewels" as a December 1994 selection. In addition, the book was featured in their holiday enclosures. Filled with photographs of beautiful jewels of every description, the stories behind the designs, their creators, and the inevitable turpitude that surrounds such extraordinary jewels, this is indeed the ultimate gift for collectors.

The Fabergé Case

The Fabergé Case
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• The Fabergé Case, is in its second publishing and still a best seller. Traina, a Fabergé expert as well as collector, maintains the world's largest collection of Fabergé cigarette cases, a subject of Fabergé's work that is less well known than the famous eggs, but no less exquisite.

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Casing Out Fabergé
In light of the recent increase in the cigarette tax, smoking could soon become a luxury habit. And what better place to store your nit fix than in a jewel-encrusted Fabergé cigarette case? Russia's House of Faberge is perhaps most renowned for its bejeweled imperial Easter eggs, but it also created many other objects, including animals, clocks and, especially, cigarette cases. Collectors include heavy-hitting celebs Ivana Trump, the late Malcolm Forbes, Elizabeth Taylor and Aaron Spelling. But even if you don't have the bucks to pack a Faberge case, you can still ogle. John Traina shares his collection (the largest in the world) in a new picture book, "The Faberge Case" (Harry Abrams Inc.). Each case is handcrafted, unique in size and shape and made from precious metals and gemstones, enamels, wood, glass, crystal and leather.

-BOOTH MOORE