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Book Review - Warman's Depression Glass Identification And Price Guide

Warman's Depression Glass Identification And Price Guide is another of Warman's high quality offerings designed to help collectors and dealers of Depression era glass identify and assign value to their pieces.

There are over 170 sections on some of the most popular Depression Glass patterns from the 1920's through the 1970's, with 500 color photos to help you identify your pieces. Here are just a few of the patterns included:

Fire-King Jane Ray
Candlewick
Heritage
Jamestown
Madrid
Early American Prescut
Moonstone
Moderntone
Oyster & Pearl
Sandwich - Hocking and Indiana
Vitrock

Each section has a brief history of the pattern and company that produced it, a price list including measurements and dating information.

The book begins with an introduction, and sections on company and color timelines, color identification, and illustrated shape and thumbnail guides. It ends with a glossary, reference and resources, and an index to help you zero in on exactly what you are looking for.

Warman's Depression Glass really is a comprehensive guide with all the information that you will need to start or grow your Depression Glass collection!

Warman's Depression Glass Identification And Price Guide
List Price: $27.99 - Our Price: $10.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

Book Review - Warman's Fenton Glass Identification and Price Guide

Warman's Fenton Glass Identification and Price Guide is one of the top reference books on Fenton Glass that is available today - you can always count on Warman's to deliver all the information a collector or dealer needs!

The book is broken down by era, plus a section dedicated to Carnival Glass:

1905 - 1930
Carnival Glass
1930 - 1955
1955 - 1980
1980 - 2005

Each section is prefaced with a brief history, and is filled with full color photos of various lines and patterns, with dating, sizing, and values included!

There are a few other helpful sections included in the book as well - an introduction, a "How To Use This Book" to help you zero in on the information that you are looking for, a section on Fenton logos (always handy!), hot secondary market trends, a price list for more modern Fenton items, and a list of resources.

This guide will be a welcome addition to the library of any Fenton enthusiast!

Warman's Fenton Glass Identification and Price Guide
List Price: $24.99 - Our Price $16.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

BooksFYI.com New Additions

Antique Trader Stoneware Blue & White Pottery Price Guide
List Price: $19.99 - Our Price: $10.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

The beautiful glazed crocks, jugs and churns that were commonly used for food storage in the late 1800s and early 1900s have always attracted collectors. Today, that interest is more alive than ever--and now collectors can reference a full-color, comprehensive guide to their favorite stoneware pieces.

Revered antiques expert Kyle Husfloen has teamed up with the American Pottery Auction to offer this guide, featuring 1,000 brilliant color photos of highly collectible stoneware. Detailed listings including descriptions, manufacturer's mark information and current pricing give collectors the essential information they need to make secure purchases.

* 1,000 listings of collectible stoneware
* Full-color photo of each piece listed
* Detailed descriptions include manufacturer's marks

Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware Value Identification Guide
List Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $15.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

Sterling silver flatware continues to be highly collectible, especially as family collections are passed down to each new generation. In this new standard to sterling silver, noted antique expert Mark Moran lists thousands of sets of sterling, complete with identifying photos, and their current prices.

He covers pieces from all the major American manufacturers, as well as selected English and European manufacturers in this essential guide to prominent silversmiths, manufacturers, and patterns. He also provides an overview of what to look for, condition reports, history, and descriptions.

* Current price guide for keepers of the family's treasures
* 1200 identifying photos of sterling, including 16 color pages
* Covers major American, English, and European manufacturers

Warman's Sporting Collectibles Identification and Price Guide
List Price: $24.99 - Our Price: $9.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

This one-stop guide to a multitude of outdoors-related collectibles provides you with a big, bold and beautiful overview of this exciting hobby. With 1,200 superb color photos, extensive descriptions, current collector pricing, and chapters about fishing lures, reels, game calls, archery, advertising materials, shot shell boxes, licenses, and duck, trout and pheasant stamps, you will be hard pressed to find another guide with the same depth of information.

FYI Price Report - Madame Alexander Dolls

The Alexander Doll Company was founded 80 years ago by Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman. Her dolls are highly sought after, but luckily there is a huge variety to choose from in all price ranges!

MADAME ALEXANDER WENDY ANN COMPOSITION DOLL
SOLD - $3,696
(This doll even had condition issues - WOW!)

Madame Alexander Cissy Doll
SOLD - $750

Madame Alexander Dionne Quints 8" Toddler Set
SOLD - $655.99
(These dolls had some condition issues - including replacement clothing...)

Madame Alexander 8" Storybook Doll, Clown Baby with Dog
SOLD - $364.89

1997 Madame Alexander 21" Jackie Kennedy Doll Outfit Set
SOLD - $299.95

Madame Alexander WICKED STEPMOTHER Snow White #688
SOLD - $160.00

Please Note:

All sold prices featured here are taken from eBay items that have ended in the last 2 weeks - while prices could be different on other venues, live auctions or in brick and mortar antique malls and stores, we feel that with the huge amount of traffic eBay brings to the antiques and collectibles market that it is a great way to gauge the general value - and demand for - a particular item.

Would you like to know more about Madame Alexander Dolls?

Madame Alexander 2007 Collector's Dolls Price Guide
List Price: $14.95 - Our Price: $11.95 + FREE SHIPPING!

Linda Crowsey's MADAME ALEXANDER: 2007 COLLECTOR'S DOLLS PRICE GUIDE #32 is an updated collector's price guide no Madame Alexander doll collector should miss. It packs in an A-Z listing of the dolls and their latest values.

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