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Antique Trader Oriental Antiques and Art
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The high quality and timeless tradition of Far Eastern treasures is brilliantly displayed in this new identification and price guide from Antique Trader. Capture the mystery, the power, and the intrigue of the Orient and the Asian culture with this expertly crafted guide providing a wealth of information collectors will need to catalog and evaluate their collection.

Historical backgrounds, current values, and detailed descriptions are included for unique treasures ranging from apparel and textiles, jewelry, rugs and carpets, Chinese porcelain and pottery, to furniture, paintings, and Japanese porcelain and pottery. More than 650 photographs make identification of these truly exquisite treasures quick and easy.

- More than 650 photographs
- Each section includes historical backgrounds and detailed descriptions
- Current market values for Asian treasures

Standard Catalog of Winchester Firearms
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Winchester enthusiasts of all interests will benefit from the expertly analyzed prices, 500 superb color photos and technical details featured in this one-volume reference. With five grades of pricing for Winchester rifles and shotguns manufactured between 1866 and the present, technical details, trend reports for popular models, with this guide you can immerse yourself in years of Winchester history and performance details.

- Guides you through the production history of America's top three firearms manufacturers
- Winchester "The Gun that Won the West" is among the most collectible guns in today's secondary market

An Illustrated Guide To Gas Pumps
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With 2,000 gas pumps, including many never-before-seen illustrations and secondary market pricing, featured in a clear and concise format, there’s no doubt why this book is the top choice for anyone with an appreciation for petroliana. Listed alphabetically by manufacturer, this new edition covers 100 years of pumps through detailed listings including production information, company history and fun facts about pump operations.

Lyle Price Guide to Uncommon Antiques and Oddities
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Strange! Bizarre! And Valuable! Here's the newest price guide to the oddest treasures from auctions, flea markets, and garage sales! Filled with everything from the offbeat and quirky to the truly bizarre, this indispensable guide takes a look at some of the most unusual items that surface at auctions, flea markets, and garage sales. With over 1500 photographs, each item illustrated and fully described, this edition is a must for the uncommon collector and dealer alike.

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Warman's English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain
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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 Guide
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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.

Big Bucks The Benoit Way
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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.

The Gun Digest Book of the 1911
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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.

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Warman's Rookwood Pottery Identification and Price Guide
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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.

American Premium Guide To Knives & Razors 7th Ed.

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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 Guide
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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.

PCM's Guide to Gas Pump Restoration
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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.

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
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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
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Vintage Fabrics Identification & Value Guide
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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.

Hot Wheels Warman's Companion Price Guide
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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 Guide
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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.

FYI Price Report - Vintage Glass Bottles

Some collectors of vintage glass bottles are happiest when digging through an old dump or a dusty box at a flea market, looking for undiscovered pieces of history... Others diligently scour the internet, looking for specific examples to add to their collections. Let's see what has caught their eye in the last couple of weeks!

Vintage Blue Glass Fire Extinguisher Bottle
SOLD - $430.00

Vintage Ruby Red Glass - Silver Overlay Perfume Bottle
SOLD - $255.00

2 Vintage Blue Glass Drink Bottles Wolf & Seward Antigo
SOLD - $167.50

Rare Vintage Coca Cola Club Soda Seltzer Spray Bottle
SOLD - $102.50

VINTAGE 5 GALLON GLASS WATER OR WINE BOTTLE JUG WITH CRATE
SOLD - $52.00

VINTAGE APOTHECARY PHARMACY CHEMIST POISON BOTTLE
SOLD - $52.00

VINTAGE AMBERINA BLENKO GLASS GENIE BOTTLE WITH STOPPER
SOLD - $51.00

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 Vintage Glass Bottles?

Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide

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The "bottle bible" is back with FULL color photos and new categories to give collectors the most up-to-date and comprehensive data on collectible bottles! This impressive 5th edition of the Antique Trader Bottles Identification & Price Guide features two new categories -- perfume bottles and political/patriotic bottles.

Thousands of detailed listings for old (pre-1900) and new (post-1900) bottles, current pricing, and 500-plus spectacular color photos combine for an unparalleled collectibles resource. From collectors and dealers to anyone with a fond memory of bottles for everything from soda pop to ink will find this easy-to-follow resource essential to building a stellar collection.

- 500+ stunning color photos for quick reference
- Thousands of listings provide valuable identifying details
- Current pricing to help collectors remain up to date

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Book Review - Antique Trader's Guide to Fakes and Reproductions

Antique Trader's Guide to Fakes and Reproductions is a comprehensive guide to identifying common reproductions in several popular collecting categories:

Black Memorabilia - China & Porcelain - Civil War
Coca-Cola Fantasies - Cookie Jars - Folk Art
Furniture - Glass - Halloween - Jewelry
Marbles - Pottery - Silver - Toys

There are over 800 color photos, along with many illustrations, that compare fakes with originals - close up views of distinguishing characteristics such as marks, sizing, quality of materials, small styling differences, etc. are included.

These things can be very hard to recognize when you are looking at buying a piece, so having a guide like this on hand is really invaluable!
Antique Trader's Guide to Fakes and Reproductions
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Book Review - Miller's Collecting Blue and White Pottery

Not only is blue and white pottery beautiful, it is a truly timeless classic that never goes out of style. Miller's Collecting Blue and White Pottery is a great introduction to collecting such well known brands as Spode, Minton, Wedgwood, Ridgway, Davenport, and others.

The book begins with a history and overview of the production of pottery in blue and white, and continues with sections on collecting by decoration, by factory, and by use. Each section is illustrated with gorgeous full color photos of prime examples with their dating and pricing information.

If you have always wanted to know more about this area of collecting, Miller's Collecting Blue and White Pottery is an excellent resource to get you started!

Miller's Collecting Blue and White Pottery
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Warman's Vintage Jewelry Identification and Price Guide
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Trinkets to treasures, that's the story of vintage jewelry. Today, jewelry is one of the most popular areas of collecting, and with millions of pieces on the market there are plenty of possibilities for finding the piece that fits your interest and budget. Warman's Vintage Jewelry contains more than 800 color photos, descriptions and prices, of stunning pieces of white metal and rhinestone jewelry. As a bonus, you will gain access to a history of rhinestones, including cuts and shapes.

Warman's Majolica Identification and Price Guide
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Majolica pottery is among the most sought after in today's art pottery market. Warman's Majolica offers collectors a comprehensive guide to this style of ceramics, complete with 1,200 stunning full-color photos!

Majolica pottery from Minton, Wedgewood, George Jones, Worchester and Lear and Chesapeake Potteries are represented in the 1,200 listings and color photos of this extensive resource. Detailed descriptions, up-to-date prices and tips on deciphering fakes and reproductions assist collectors in accurately identifying a family heirloom or the result of several antique hunts.

- 1,200 spectacular full-color photos guide collectors in identifying pieces
- 1,200 listings of popular majolica ceramics create a complete resource
- Current pricing, history and tips on spotting fakes helps get the most on every investment

Hot Wheels Spectraflame - The Essential Guide
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Revel in the candy-colored brilliance and muscle-car-fashioned attitude of the mightiest of the diecast cars in this pioneer book solely devoted to the superior Spectraflame cars. From the Beatnik Bandit and Hot Heap to the Python and Custom Camaro, you'll find the whole gang of classic miniature cruisers in this Mattel-licensed book, represented in 650+ color photos, casting information, production runs, values and insight about the differences between U.S. and Hong Kong-made models.

FYI Price Report - Vintage Little Golden Books

The first release of 12 Little Golden Books was in the Fall of 1942, and they have remained popular ever since! Some buyers today are looking to replace books from their childhoods, or to find them to give to their own children. Others are hard core collectors, interested in finding the rarest books in the best condition possible. Let's take a look at some recently sold books!

VINTAGE LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK - LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
SOLD - $76.00
(Written by Helen Bannetman and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.
It has a copyright of 1948 and has an L printed on the last page.)

Vintage Little Golden Book - FIX IT PLEASE, Eloise Wilkin, 1st
SOLD - $36.76
(By Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, #32, A, 1st printing - 1948)

Vintage Children's Little Golden Book - BABY'S HOUSE "A"
SOLD - $36.00
(Copyright 1957 "A" 1st Edition #80)

Vintage Little Golden Book - LITTLE GRAY DONKEY, 1st, A
SOLD - $16.02
(By Alice Lunt, Illustrated by Tibor Gergely, #206, A, 1st printing)

Vintage Halloween LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK - DONALD DUCK & THE WITCH
SOLD - $15.50
(Copyright 1953 by Walt Disney Productions, Published by Simon and Schuster.
Letter "A", first printing)

Vintage Little Golden Jack & the Beanstalk 1st
SOLD - $12.27
(Pictures by Gustaf Tenggren c. 1953, 1956, A First Edition)

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 Little Golden Books?

Warman's Little Golden Books Identification and Price Guide
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Written by the country's leading Little Golden Books expert, Warman's Little Golden Books represents these childhood treasurers in the format collectors are accustomed to: bright, colorful, nostalgic and indispensable!

Collectors will be able to easily identify and assess classics like "The Poky Little Puppy" and modern issues with this book, arranged alphabetically and by book number. Inside this guide collectors will find:

• Secondary market price listings, plus details about how to determine value and condition of a book
• More than 1,200 illustrations, giving collectors a colorful reference to use in assessing collections
• Tips on how to determine value and condition of a book
• Offers valuable advice for determining editions