Artfact Joins Forces with Auctionzip, Secures $13 Million in Growth Capital Funding
Bidders were tapping at the doors for Poe works
"Best of 2009" Comic-Related Videos Revealed by Sketch Maven
Antiques.com to syndicate Collectibles Corner TV!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Antiques and Collectibles News
Jackie Robinson jersey scores big at $373,750
Artfact Joins Forces with Auctionzip, Secures $13 Million in Growth Capital Funding
Bidders were tapping at the doors for Poe works
"Best of 2009" Comic-Related Videos Revealed by Sketch Maven
Antiques.com to syndicate Collectibles Corner TV!
Artfact Joins Forces with Auctionzip, Secures $13 Million in Growth Capital Funding
Bidders were tapping at the doors for Poe works
"Best of 2009" Comic-Related Videos Revealed by Sketch Maven
Antiques.com to syndicate Collectibles Corner TV!
BooksFYI.com New Additions
Warman's English and Continental Pottery and PorcelainList Price: $27.99 - Our Price: $10.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
With 10,000 new listings, 600 photos (including a color section), and featuring 180 major categories, Warman's English & Continental Pottery & Porcelain Identification and Price Guide is a must-have reference book for any collector or dealer! There are new sections devoted to Ruskin, Wade, Cornish Ware, Natzler, Royal Winton, Oyster Plates, Pablo Picasso, Cottageware and Pilkington!
With a book as information rich as this one, a How To Use This book chapter is essential - and there is one provided at the very beginning so that you can easily target the exact information you are looking for! Even better, along with the How To guide is an explanation of how prices were determined, how to best care for ceramics, and a state of the market report.
The listings in the book are organized alphabetically by category, and include a brief history, a list of references, a list of museums, reproduction alerts, collecting hints, marks, and examples of items being sold in the marketplace today (with some harder to find items also included to provide a fuller range for each category).
The back of the book has an appendix with British Registry Mark information, additional notes on marks, a glossary of terms, a bibliography, and an index. The authors have done an amazing job of making sure the reader can easily use this book to their greatest advantage!
Warman's Arts and Crafts Furniture Price GuideList Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $10.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
The Arts and Crafts Movement is probably best known for the furniture that came from it. Indeed, many claim that the furniture from this period was the one truly great product of the era. Now, enthusiasts of this popular furniture style can follow the rise of the design movement from its beginnings in mid-19th century England to the major American manufacturers of the 20th century.
Warman's Arts & Crafts Furniture covers the giants of the designers and manufacturers of Arts and Crafts furniture: John Ruskin, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris, the Stickley Brothers, designer Harvey Ellis, Charles Limbert, Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters, Charles Rohlfs, and more.
Over 1,500 listings include detailed descriptions and pricing for each piece, and more than 1,000 vibrant full-color photos convey the functional beauty of the era's furniture.
By following the legendary Benoit family, learn to track and harvest the biggest whitetail bucks on a consistent basis. The full color photography and time tested methods explained will gain any hunter the advantage over whitetails, and the bragging rights over deep camp.
In exhaustive detail, The Gun Digest Book of The 1911, Volume 2 gives shooting enthusiasts, military buffs and competition shooters expanded information for using and upgrading the 1911, including reviews of the latest models, new factory ammunition and test-fire evaluations for more than 20 additional pistols.
This enhanced new volume also gives readers technical specifications including trigger pull, chamber depth and weight for this new collection of pistols. This second volume completes the story of the 1911 for anyone interested in customizing the classic John Browning design.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Antiques and Collectibles News
BooksFYI.com New Additions
Warman's Rookwood Pottery Identification and Price GuideList Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $15.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
Warman's Rookwood Pottery teaches you how to identify, value, and affordably collect this exquisite style of pottery, while deepening your passion for it. With insight into the history of Rookwood Pottery, including 1,000 brilliant color photos and an explanation of the exclusive marking dating system, this book delivers more than pricing and identifying details. It demonstrates why there is such interest in this pottery.
List Price: $27.99 - Our Price: $14.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
Keep your knife collecting and identifying skills sharp by studying thousands of pocketknives and straight razors, from legendary makers including W.R Case, Schatt & Morgan and Crandall, featured in this new edition to the premiere guide to premium cutlery. Explore updated pricing, manufacturer data, and extensive details about patterns, blade styles, handle materials, tang stamps, knife club contact information, and company histories, as you deepen your knife knowledge.
Warman's McCoy Pottery Identification and Price GuideList Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $20.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
What began 160 years ago as one man's production of utilitarian stoneware has become a passion of many collectors, just like you. This new edition features McCoy pottery including cookie jars, dinnerware, jardinières and pedestals, Loy-Nel-Art, planters, vases and flower holders, among others. With more than 1,000 color photos, this edition features detailed descriptions, values, pages from vintage McCoy catalogs, historical data and a chapter outlining steps for spotting fakes and reproductions.
Vintage gas pump restoration has enjoyed growing popularity, and now more than ever enthusiasts need an easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide to restoring the antiques they want to add to their collections.
With the Guide to Gas Pump Restoration, readers will follow Scott Benjamin and Wayne Henderson, two of the world's foremost authorities on gas pumps and petroliana, through restoration of a wide variety of collectible gas pumps. The duo teaches enthusiasts how to create beautiful, exact reproductions using their step-by-step photos and instructions.
This one-of-a-kind book features instructions on disassembly and reassembly on all types of pumps, from early gravity fed to today's stainless steel varieties. Thousands of color illustrations detail exact logos and placement for hundreds of gas pump manufacturers.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Book Review - Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware Value and Identification Guide
If you need information about the sterling silver flatware set that you inherited from Mom or Grandma, or that you scored at an auction or estate sale, Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware Value and Identification Guide is the book you've been looking for!Antique expert Mark Moran lists thousands of sets of sterling using 1,200 identifying photos, including 16 color pages. He covers pieces from all the major American manufacturers, as well as selected English and European manufacturers. Here are just some that are included:
Alvin - Dominick & Haff - Durgin - Frank Smith
Georg Jensen - Gorham - International - Kirk Stieff
Lunt - Oneida/Heirloom - Reed & Barton - Tiffany & Co.
Towle - Wallace - Whiting
Each company section is broken down by pattern (with dates). Each pattern section includes a photo, and values and measurements for individual pieces within each pattern.
If you already know your maker and pattern name, finding it and looking up values will be a snap! If you know just the maker but not the pattern, you should be able to identify it with just a few minutes of browsing through the correct section.
The beginning of the book has much needed sections on identifying pieces by shape, decorative styles in British Silver, a resources list, and a guide on how to set your table - Mr. Moran really thought of everything his readers might need to know, making this guide a valuable addition to any reference book library!
Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware Value and Identification Guide
List Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $15.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Book Review - The Collector's Guide to Antique Radios
The Collector's Guide to Antique Radios - 6th Edition is devoted to the golden age of radios - the 1920s through the 1950s - and gives descriptions and values for approximately 10,000 models of antique radios with over 600 full-color photographs!The guide begins with an About The Author and Welcome section, followed by helpful sections explaining pricing and the terms and descriptive information used in the listings - very helpful for a newer collector who might not be familiar with all the terms used in the world of antique radios!
The rest of the book is divided up into sections alphabetically according to maker, making finding the radio you are looking up a snap! Here are just some of the brands that are included:
Admiral - Airline - American Bosch
Arvin - Atwater Kent - Crosley
Emerson - Fada - Firestone
GE General Electric - Lafayette - Majestic
Motorola - Philco - RCA
Scott - Silvertone - Stewart-Warner
Stromberg-Carlson - Westinghouse - Zenith
Each brand is then further broken down by model number, with a list of distinguishing features and estimated value.
The oversized paperback format of this book makes it easy to handle and store in your reference book library - and the information inside will satisfy the needs of everyone, from the beginning collector to the seasoned enthusiast or dealer!
The Collector's Guide to Antique Radios - 6th Edition
List Price: $24.95 - Our Price: $16.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
BooksFYI.com New Additions
Vintage Fabrics is an identification and pictorial guide to common vintage fabrics of all fibers from 1880 to 1959, with emphasis on history and origins of fabrics, construction, and how fabrics were used for home and fashion. Including vintage advertisements and more than 450 photographs, this handbook fills a void in fabric information. Charts, glossaries, and photos are extended to include a wider range of cotton, silks, and wools, plus early rayons and nylons, with their specific names, which are not featured in most general books on old fabrics.
Further identification covers weave construction, with enlarged surface views of most fabrics, burn tests, microscope views of fibers including rayon and nylon, and information on distinguishing certain look-alike fabrics from dotted Swiss. Secondary history includes cross sections and synopses of mill histories, brand names, and finishes, plus a photo story of the textile process. Also included is a price guide, possibly the first time in print, for yardage of old fabrics. This quick reference handbook will benefit textile collectors in all fields, appraisers, dealers, costumers and re-enactors, textile and fashion students, and seamstresses.
This new edition of the colorful and compact collector’s guide to Hot Wheels not only provides you with identifying details for these miniature marvels, but it features 500 close-up photos of these legendary pocket-sized racers and collector pricing for Redlines, Blackwalls and Numbered Packs. In addition, there’s an extensive chapter on Hot Wheels hall of fame designers, including the legendary Larry Wood.
Michael Zarnock has been collecting Hot Wheels cars since the late 1960s. He is a leading authority on Hot Wheels, having authored Warman's Hot Wheels Field Guide and the previous edition of Hot Wheels A Warman's Companion. In 2008, he was awarded the Guinness world record for having 8,128 different Hot Wheels car models. The old record was 3,711. His personal collection includes more than 15,000.
Warman's Antiques & Collectibles 2010 Price GuideList Price: $27.99 - Our Price: $21.95 + FREE SHIPPING!
Most of us have at least one “old” item that looks like it could be an antique, and most certainly collectible. But, we don’t always know what “it” is exactly, or what its worth, and that can be the difference between a valuable treasure, and a treasure with more sentimental value.
For aspiring and experienced collectors alike, the pricing and identifying answers you’re looking for, market insight you value, and beautiful auction-quality photos you admire, are in this history-marking price guide. Plus, the bonus DVD demonstrates what to look for and how to inspect pieces for indications of fakes and reproductions.
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