The latest prices, trends, and tips on where and how to buy and sell everything from furniture, glass, and textiles to jewelry and more highlights more than 8,000 antiques with color photographs.
The only full-color price guide compiled specially for the North American market, this is the clearest, most user-friendly way to get real value for your money in the world of antiques. All items featured are new for this edition, and each object is clearly photographed in color, displaying the latest carefully verified price, identifying marks, size, and date, in order to aid accurate recognition. Each catalog section includes factory or artisan groupings -- for example, all Arts and Crafts ceramics are displayed together by factory for easy reference.
The Most Valuable Tool in Your Toolbox Lacking the edge on tool information? Cut through the competition and hammer home deals like a pro with Antique Trader Tools Price Guide. Featuring 700 color photos, thousands of listings with current values, market trends, and collecting advice, it's the definitive reference on antique tools. This book features: • 700 color photos, with actual prices received at auctions • 2,000 listings covering planes, braces, drills, saws, hammers, levels, rules, squares, gauges, scientific instruments, patented tools, advertising, and much more • Information on building a collection, condition grading, market trends, and investing New! • Chapter on collecting Stanley tools • Condition grading photos
The bible for pottery and porcelain collectibles, the third edition is all new from cover to cover. The only price guide of its kind, it features 300 photos, more than 200 categories and more than 10,000 price listings of today's hottest collectibles in the antiques marketplace.
Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide remains the essential and trusted guide to the antiques market. It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, the guide features more than 8,000 antiques. Comprehensive sections cover ceramics, furniture, glass, silver and metalwares, jewellery and objets de vertu, clocks and watches, books, Oriental antiques, textiles, toys, decorative arts and Modern Classics. Special features explain why one piece is worth more than another, show how to value an item and teach you to be your own valuer. Biographies of designers and factories give the background information you need to help date and value objects, while special 'Judith Picks' sections give fascinating background and valuation details for particularly interesting or unusual objects.
This new edition of The Bottle bible is loaded with listings, current market values and trademark data for 50 years of bottles produced during the 19th and 20th centuries. With this book in hand, the tools to positively identify and accurately assess bottles in your collection are at your fingertips. Review tips for spotting reproductions, determining rarity and identifying factors that affect values and for 50 plus categories of bottles (with 20 new areas) including bottles from Avon, Ballantine, Jim Beam, Lionstone, Miniatures, and Violin and Banjo among others.
A guide to the world's best-selling antiques. The major areas of collecting are given thorough coverage and the volume features items that are sold in all areas of the trade - antiques shops, auction houses, markets and fairs. To celebrate this 21st edition, a team of expert consultants who worked on the first edition of the book have contributed articles on all aspects of collecting. In 21 Years Ago, the book looks at how the market has changed over the period and takes a closer look at items that were featured in the first edition. This year, special attention is given to dual-purpose furniture, Wedgwood, Russian antiques, soft toys and 200 years of Derby porcelain; there is also a special feature that looks at an antique from every century of the millennium.