Written for the sports hobby by the prominent authentication and forgery detection expert David Rudd Cycleback, Judging the Authenticity of Early Baseball Cards is the standard authentication guide for Pre-1930 baseball cards. Essential reading for starting collectors to seasoned dealers, the brief guide offers everything from common sense tips for avoiding fakes to advanced techniques used to judge the age of cardstock and printing.
Fifth Edition. Written by the prominent art historian and authentication expert David Rudd Cycleback, Judging the Authenticity of Photographs: The Basics for Collectors covers the essentials to identifying, dating, understanding and authenticating photographs from the origins in the 1800s to today. It covers the whole range of photos, from tintypes to Polaroids, cabinet cards to wirephotos, salt prints to family snapshots, movie stills to real photo postcards. Topics include identification of photo processes, dating styles, identifying images made from the original negatives, stamps and tags, identifying fakes and reprints, and more. A concise guide essential for starting collectors and amateur genealogists to veteran auctioneers, dealers and historians.
Written by the prominent art and artifacts scholar Cycleback, this book is a primer and survey of standard methods and issues in the identification, authentication, fake and forgery detection of art, artifacts and collectibles, from ancient artifacts and famous paintings to antique toys and trading cards. Topics include stylistic and historical analysis, scientific testing (including radiometric dating, thermoluminescence testing, spectroscopy, microscopy and artificial intelligence analysis), basic research methods, material and process identification, provenance, altered forgeries, the limits of science and analysis, and more. Authentication involves many aspects and perspectives working together, from nuclear physics to art history, and this book is written for all those invested or interested in the topic, including museum workers, scientists, historians, students, appraisers, lawyers, collectors and those simply interested in how famous artworks and relics are authenticated and forgeries identified.
This black-and-white print version on the online guide reprints previously published articles by the prominent art scholar and authentication expert David Cycleback. The book focuses on identifying standard printing processes, but includes additional chapters on authenticating and dating antique and fine art prints, and gives the essential basics for collectors, sellers, historians, students and art enthusiasts. Along with showing how to identify etchings, engravings, lithographs, photoengravings, woodcuts and other processes, topics include identifying and dating paper, how to identify modern reproductions and forgeries, alterations, proofs, editions, states, provenance, how to research the works of famous artists, and offers a plethora of practical tips. Director of Center for Artifact Studies, Cycleback is widely recognized as one the world's leading authorities on prints and photographs authentication.
Offers tips on identifying, collecting, and caring for furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising and sports memorabilia, and glass and pottery.
Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.
TRUTH... From the heights of a crumbling Manhattan skyskraper to a real estate magnate's tropical retreat, PI, Tom Larkin, seeks the truth about rare manuscripts found in a streamer trunk from the 1920's Lost Generation. Some believe the old manuscripts are worth more as fakes than as the genuine article, and will kill anyone who gets in the way. OR CONSEQUENCES From the high-end bidding of estate liquidators and antiques appraisers into the jaws of death, Larkin believes the truth is to die for, but the man-eaters he encounters run the gamut from hot-blooded vixens to cold-blooded reptiles. Winter's shoot 'm up style prevails as Larkin stems the tide of his own demons, knowing that his acceptance of defeat against the odds is never an option.
More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Written by the prominent art authentication and forgery detection expert David Rudd Cycleback, this small book is a primer on ultraviolet, infrared and visible light in forensic science, art and collectible examination, commerce and daily life. Topics include infrared examination of paintings, currency and license counterfeit detection, invisible ink writing, crime scene investigation, identification of alterations and restoration, and the light techniques used in forgery detection of trading cards, posters, historical documents, art glass and other collectibles. Written for the amateur scientist, junior detective and art and memorabilia collector and dealer.
The 11th edition of this thorough, dependable guide features information on 65,000 items, plus "special focus" articles by artists highlighting collecting categories of special importance in the current marketplace. All items are diligently researched and clearly described, and all categories are carefully indexed. 1,500 photos.
