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| MILLERS ANTIQUES PRICE GUIDE 2007 - Jonty Hearnden/Mitchell Beazley |
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| "Miller's Antiques Price Guide" 2007 is the definitive antiques price guide with a brand-new makeover. Whether you are buying or selling, with nearly 8,000 colour items - all sourced new each year from the antiques trade - this is the one book no collector can afford to be without. As well as traditional antiques such as furniture, pottery, porcelain, glass, and silver, the latest trends are covered in the decorative arts, and the 20th century. Special features give an in-depth look at American silver, Gothic revival furniture, creamware, parian wares, skeleton clocks, and American clocks, and quilts (both American and European). For 28 years "Miller's Antiques Price Guide" has been the benchmark for authority and accessibility as the most comprehensive illustrated guide to antiques from all over the world. |
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| WARMANS DOLLS FIELD GUIDE - by Dawn Herlocher |
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| Finally there's a handy and very affordable guide to dolls and doll collecting. Following the successful model of previous field guides, "Warman's [registered] Dolls Field Guide" presents information in the same passionate and detailed manner readers treat personal collections with. This small and intensely informative guide keeps collectors up-to-date with: current prices gathered up by expert appraisers and at auction sales; dolls representing every corner of the world from Asia to the United States; and more than 500 gorgeous colour photos to assist collectors with identification and organisation of collections. It's the perfect guide for new and veteran collectors who want to keep up with the changing doll market and have money to purchase more dolls. |
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| A ROOM FULL OF TOYS - The Magical Characters of Childhood - by Alberto Manguel |
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| "Toys" is a journey through the world of toys and the children's rooms that were their home, from the late 19th century to the present day. Presented in settings built specially for the project, more than 500 toys from the renowned collection at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, become actors in sketches that are alternately eerie and droll, disturbing and poetic. This dreamlike, evocative book will fascinate both children and toy specialists, and collectors, as well as anyone still enchanted by the wonders of childhood. |
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| STARTING TO COLLECT 20th CENTURY CERAMICS - Andrew Casey |
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Produced for the novice collector of ceramics produced in the 20th century, this title covers a diverse range of pottery and ceramics.
It aims to provides a starting point for all would-be collectors. |
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| DK COLLECTABLES PRICE GUIDE 2007 by Judith Miller |
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Be in the know and pocket the profit with expert Judith Miller. Valuing collectables is quick and easy with this essential, all-colour price guide. It showcases over 5,000 collectables including current hot buys, from funky West German pottery to chocolate moulds. Plus, expanded sections on the increasingly popular 1950s-60s and British and European studio and factory glass. Hints on where and how to buy and sell, plus tips on what makes certain items more desirable than others, will prove invaluable to bargain-hunter and serious collector alike. "Judith Miller knows collectables" - "The Telegraph". |
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