Barry Weber

Jewelry

Updated: 7.17.09

Barry Weber is president of Edith Weber Inc. of Madison Avenue in New York. Edith Weber Antique Jewelry has specialized in fine antique jewelry for more than 40 years. The company also concentrates on the field of historic jewelry, and has bought and sold jewelry belonging to notables such as George Washington, Lafayette, Napoleon, Lord Byron, Dolly Madison, and many figures of European royalty. Jewels from Edith Weber & Associates have been worn on the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards broadcasts and have been seen gracing the covers of major national magazines such as In Style and People.

Edith Weber's retail location on Madison Avenue in Manhattan's historic Upper East Side attracts an international clientele of collectors and connoisseurs. In addition to this retail store, Edith Weber Antique Jewelry continues its long-standing tradition as a featured antique jewelry exhibitor at many of America's most prestigious charity antiques shows.

Mr. Weber has dealt in fine antique jewelry for more than 25 years. He grew up in the antiques business, living in his grandparents' antiques shop as a child and assisting in all facets of that business. He traveled throughout Europe and the United States with his mother, Edith, in search of rare antique jewels for their growing clientele throughout the 1970s and 80s.

Mr. Weber is a member of the Appraisers Association of America and the Jewelry Historians Society of America. He has taught antique jewelry appraisal classes at several colleges and universities, pioneering a series of revolutionary hands-on seminars teaching the intricacies of the identification and evaluation of antique jewelry to novices and seasoned industry professionals both. Mr. Weber created and supervised the institution of jewelry-vetting standards for all antiques shows managed by the Antiques Council of America and is chair of the Jewelry Standards Committee for the Los Angeles Antiques Show.