Antiques & Collectibles - General

...give(s) readers a stirring sense of place in which the history of an era springs to life and captivates one's imagination.- The Quoddy TimesAuthor: Steven Boothroyd, Peter BarneyISBN-10: 1879511045ISBN-13: 9781879511040Publisher: Vestal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 10.98h x 8.50w x 0.27d

During the post-war era in Communist East Germany in the seventies, Karen von Wagner is enjoying her life in East Berlin. She had grown up indebted and grateful to the GDR for giving her an excellent education in the arts in spite of what...

Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...

The Rare Coins of America, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, and Spain - Also, Greek and Roman coins. Sixth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

Congratulations. You've Just Bought a Bench Plane. You have made an excellent investment in your woodworking future. If it's brand new, you will be the first to build its history. If it's one from an earlier time, you have helped to preserve its woodworking...

This book is sized to be carried in the field while at the flea markets, antique shops or auctions.Keeping track of your collection is an important task for your collection. As the collection grows, you should keep track of the pieces you purchase. The...

The Tile Gazetteer published for the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society in September 2005, is a comprehensive, fully-referenced and superbly illustrated guide to British tile and architectura l locations.Author: Lynn PearsonISBN-10: 0903685973ISBN-13: 9780903685979Publisher: Richard Dennie PublicationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2006Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w...

These distinctive ceramic figurines, kitchen ware and bathroom ware were made in Japan from 1946 until about 1971. They are brightly painted and known for humorous expressions and appearance. This guide shows a wide selection of the known items, in color and with descriptions,...

Lanterns shown here were designed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to light primarily homes, barns, railroad sidings, and maritime locations. The images shown were compiled from patent drawings from 1871 and 1872 as well as sales catalogs dating from 1894 to...

At the forefront of the Art Deco movement were metalware and sculpture, made by highly skilled craftsmen and artists. This book contains over 200 photographs and illustrations of Art Deco metalwares and sculptures, The author discusses Art Deco's most significant artists, as well as...

Next to Christmas, more money is spent on Halloween decorations and novelties than on any other holiday. This wonderful book has been credited with inspiring the Halloween collecting craze, giving its devotees a chance to celebrate the holiday all year round In addition to...

A detailed history of the development of fishing reel technology and fascinating stories of the notable manufacturers who produced them are related here. Fly casting, bait casting, spinning, and spin casting reels produced in America and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are...

In thousands of years of tilling the soil, we have created a great variety of garden tools to dig, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. What makes the tools unique, and collectible, is the way function has dictated form, resulting in not only...

Superb color photographs, including multiple full-views and detail shots, depict over 150 helmets of Germany, Britain, France, United States, Austria, Turkey, and others from World War I. Previously unpublished World War I photographs show the helmets as they were worn.Author: Michael J. HaselgroveISBN-10: 0764310208ISBN-13:...

Featuring over 1000 color photographs, this expansive guide to Cracker Jack covers all manner of company collectibles from advertising copy, books, catalogs, and crates to packages, premiums, photographs, and sales stimulators. The items detailed in this thorough work span the twentieth century from c....

This book represents nearly a decade of research into the history of U.S. production combat helmets. Covered are the standard ground helmets, parachutist helmets and helmet covers. Every major production helmet version is presented in full color photographs, including detail shots and production markings.Author:...

A new multi-volume series covering United States Naval patches from World War II to the present - each volume contains over 1000 patches in full color.Author: Michael L. RobertsISBN-10: 0764301446ISBN-13: 9780764301445Publisher: Schiffer PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/1997Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.00lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.80w x 1.00d

This new book presents over seven years of research into the history of the M-1 helmet during World War II, and provides the most comprehensive examination of its development and production. All aspects of M-1 helmet production are covered including: the helmet body, the...

Explore Britain's dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world-famous, is so sensitive it has never before been opened to the public. Each object tells its own story:...

An inspiring compendium of idiosyncratic interiors assembled around eclectic collections of objects with life and historyThe once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. The New Antiquarians features twenty-two young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches...

Author: Daniel WakelinISBN-10: 1009100580ISBN-13: 9781009100588Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2022Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.75d

The identification and dating of American jewelry heretofore has been difficult because few pieces bear standard markings and the references have been diverse, hard to find, and incomplete. Using old trade journals and their related directories as her primary sources, the eminent silver historian...

Fostoria is one of the best known and most admired names in American glass. Probably more brides and homemakers have received gifts and purchased glass made at the Fostoria factory in Moundsville, West Virginia than from any other glass company. This is the first...

40 Donut Scissors Skill Page for kids This is a digital and printable Scissors Skills book for kids or Kindergarten students .Author: Elka ElkaISBN-10: 8743179231ISBN-13: 9798743179237Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2021Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.08d

100 BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL DESIGNS.This adult coloring book has 100 beautiful animal designs including a huge variety of small and big creatures from a broad range of habitats including forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. It provides hours of fun, calm, relaxation and stress relief through...

100 BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL DESIGNS.This adult coloring book has 100 beautiful animal designs including a huge variety of small and big creatures from a broad range of habitats including forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. It provides hours of fun, calm, relaxation and stress relief through...

100 BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL DESIGNS.This adult coloring book has 100 beautiful animal designs including a huge variety of small and big creatures from a broad range of habitats including forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. It provides hours of fun, calm, relaxation and stress relief through...

100 BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL DESIGNS.This adult coloring book has 100 beautiful animal designs including a huge variety of small and big creatures from a broad range of habitats including forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. It provides hours of fun, calm, relaxation and stress relief through...

Welcome to a world of flowers. We have created something special for you. A beautiful coloring book with flower collection. If you enjoy coloring and want to escape the stress of daily life and relax, forgetting your troubles, this book is for you.24 pagesAuthor:...

CYour child needs this book. This awesome kitten Coloring Book Coloring provides 101 different pictures for drawing. This number of different images will provide many hours of fun for your little one. It will stimulate his imagination and creativity. Coloring book has no age...

100 BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL DESIGNS.This adult coloring book has 100 beautiful animal designs including a huge variety of small and big creatures from a broad range of habitats including forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. It provides hours of fun, calm, relaxation and stress relief through...

A fascinating book on the origins of writing. Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth...

A biography of retired 87 year-old James C. Sheppard, M. D. Born to a poor tenant farmer below Dothan in south Alabama's Houston County, he excelled academically and earned through his educational journey a medical degree, after which he served a four year stint...

Chang Dai-chien, deservedly the "Dai-chien of the World," has drawn the "Dai-chien World," and his name and paintings have soared worldwide and presented a wonderful art world. Throughout the ages, Chang Dai-Chien has been the world's only treasure. Therefore, valuing the study and dissemination...

Over 760 beautiful color photographs display hundreds of canes & walking sticks that span centuries and a multitude of designs. Elegant formal styles include handles of gold, silver, and ivory. Innovative system sticks display a vast array of objects hidden within their shafts and...

Finally, a book on Tibetan art and antiques with 500 brilliant color photographs that provide a broad survey and visual reference guide. It presents Tibetan thangka and tantric religious art and ritual objects, manuscripts, woodblock prints, document holders, sculptures, furniture, tea services, snuff holders...

Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission and manuscript production....

Color AWAY Pandemic Chaos We find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, with chaos all around us, and the one things that sells out first is...TOILET PAPER? Are you f*cking kidding me ?As you make your way back home, through the invisible but...

Do your kids love coloring? Do they love unicorns and their fantastic world? If your answer is yes, then keep reading.This book is composed of 80 completely unique unicorn coloring pages for kids ages 3-6 Unicorns are so much fun to color because they...

Author: Niki WillianISBN-10: 8643775568ISBN-13: 9798643775560Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2020Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.12d

There's No Place Like HomeThe magical Ruby Slippers, worn by actress Judy Garland in MGM's beloved 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz is perhaps the most iconic example of movie memorabilia in the world. The pair on display at the Smithsonian National...

There's No Place Like HomeThe magical Ruby Slippers, worn by actress Judy Garland in MGM's beloved 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz is perhaps the most iconic example of movie memorabilia in the world. The pair on display at the Smithsonian National...

Author: Janet Klug, Donald J. SundmanISBN-10: 0794822487ISBN-13: 9780794822484Publisher: Whitman PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.70lbsSize: 12.10h x 9.90w x 0.70d

Coin Machines is a thorough look at slot machines, jukeboxes, arcade, counter and pinball games, trade stimulators, vending machines, and coin operated scales, all described in detail and abundantly photographed in color. These coin operated machines-- invented in England, adopted in America in the...

Tortoiseshell, derived from marine turtles, has been used in decorative work for thousands of years. It featured in trade with, amongst others, the Babylonians and the Romans. In Europe, it was used for furniture veneer in the seventeenth century, while in Polynesia it was...

This one-stop practical book guides you to run a wide range of music therapy groups with pre-school and primary aged children with additional needs. Gain understanding on how to adapt and improvise to ensure that the group meets the individual child's needs, from simple...

An inspirational guide to Primitive decorating and collecting. Featuring collection and display ideas, along with encouragement based on my life experience. My hope is that you will sense many seasons of life and be encouraged to move forward. As well as obtain ideas for...

No matter if you are a long time aficionado of Art Deco and 20th Century design or a novice collector, this book is a must for you. Its purpose is to explain how you can display and group items from your collection to their...

'The Index of Middle English Prose' will ultimately locate, identify and record all extant Middle English prose texts composed between c.1200 and c.1500. The initial volumes, the 'Handlists' give descriptions of each item in a particular collection, with identification, categorisation, and full bibliographical data....

Not By Bread Alone provides an opportunity for individual learning and spiritual growth as you and our king connect, interact, and share. Remember, wisdom is always available to those who ask of God. Holy Spirit ministers to you wherever you might be. This same...