The collection consists of drawings, mostly watercolor, for a wide variety of silver work and jewelry, including designs of reproduction English and colonial pieces, as well as original designs showing the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Over half of the drawings show tea and coffee services, including creamers, sugar bowls, and waste bowls. There are, in addition, depictions of pitchers, candlesticks, plaques, frames, urns, and ceremonial cups. Some of the leaves are annotated in pencil, revealing the names of those who commissioned Gebelein's work, prices, and directions for improving the way an object was to look. A few have Gebelein's small paper labels affixed to the reverse. The drawings from the 1930s and 1940s may have been done by Walter Edward Werner, who did a great deal of that sort of work during those years. The jewelry designs are for bar pins, stick pins, brooches, earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, a watch, watch fobs or seals, rings, cuff links, etc. Some are marked with the initials G.E.G., one is dated 1914, some betray an influence of Art Deco work, and some indicate for whom the piece was designed. A number of the jewelry designs include notes about which stones were to be used and a few indicate that the customer would supply the stones. Finally, prices are recorded on some of the drawings. It is not known who executed the jewelry designs. In addition, there are a few printed items: an article about Gebeleins work, and an advertisement and a price list for his silver lined copper bowls. Much of this collection is also available on microfilm, reel number 3017.
