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Graced by Lace: A Guide for Collectors of Antique Linen and Lace (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Debra Bonito

Schiffer Publishing, 2001

Graced by Lace
This book is the most beautiful and informative book I have ever seen on the subject on antique lace. I am a second generation antique textile collector, and this book is truly the best I have ever seen on antique linens and lace. It is the perfect gift for both the ...

Teapots by Design: A Collectors' Catalogue (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Schiffer Publishing, 2006

Best Gift
A gift for a friend who's a new teapot collector. She was thrilled to find four of her teapots in this book. The book is of a personal collection. Nicely done.Colorful.

Antique Trader Indian Arrowheads Price Guide (Antique Trader Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide by ...

Krause Publications, 2007

Good Book
Great photos of arrowheads and other stone tools/slate items. The prices are very accurate and NOT over inflated like the Overstreet arrowhead price guide. I like the fact the artifacts shown are all authentic and not a bunch of "stamped out" fake reproductions like ...

Goebel Figurines & Prints by Charlotte Byj
Rocky Rockholt

Schiffer Publishing, 2000

Charlot Byj created her famous redheaded children and other figures as greeting card illustrations. In the mid 1940s her work caught the attention of the Goebel Company, the makers of Hummel figurines. At Goebel her characters took on three dimensions, and now they are sought by collectors around the world. The Redheads, the blonde series, and ...

Bibliographia Oziana: A concise Bibliographical Checklist of the Oz Books by L. Frank Baum and His Successors
Peter E. Hanff, Douglas G. Greene

The International Wizard of Club, 2002

This bibliographical work is a reprint of the revised and enlarged second edition, original published in 1976. Bibliographia Oziana has served as the standard reference work that sorts out the extremely complex printing history of each of the original forty Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his six successors. In addition it includes full descriptions ...

Obsolete Paper Money: Issued by Banks in the United States 1782-1866: a Study and Appreciation for the ...

Q. David Bowers

Whitman Publishing, 2006

A Great History Book
This book is not your typical data book with only pictures and current values for each note (such as Haxby, etc). It is a history book of many notes issued in the United States. It covers the years 1782 - 1866 and is mainly focused on "obsolete notes." For those ...

Cher Doll & Her Celebrity Friends: With Fashions by Bob Mackie (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Sandra Johnsie Bryan

Schiffer Publishing, 2003

CHERTASTIC!
I love that this book exists! I've always had a CHER doll but I never owned any of her fashions, but I definitely remember looking at them at Toys 'R' Us when I was a kid. I even remember her wearing many of them on her own show back in the 1970's. The photos are ...

The Big Book of John Deere Tractors: The Complete Model-by-Model Encyclopedia, Plus Classic Toys, Brochures, ...

Don Macmillan

Voyageur Press, 2005

If you love tractors...
then this is the book for you. I bought it as a gift for a knowledgable friend and he was in raptures. I now know more about John Deere tractors than I ever dreamed it was possible to know! This book covers every John Deere tractor ever made and covers them in great ...

Material Journeys: Collecting African And Oceanic Art, 1945-2000

Christraud M. Geary, Stephanie Xatart

MFA Publications, 2007

A powerful survey
MATERIAL JOURNEYS is a strong pick for any college-level art library serious about African or Oceanic art representations. This catalogue of holdings comes from the Genevieve McMillan Collection and supplements a study of how African and oceanic arts were brought to ...

Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, ...

Carole B. Turner

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998

Very informative and easy to use
I purchased two books at the same time. This one is excellant for a beginner in gardening as well as an old timer. Easy to use and understand.

United States Coinage: A Study By Type
Ron Guth, Jeff Garrett

Whitman Publishing, 2005

Collecting the Weaver's Art: The William Claflin Collection of Southwestern Textiles (Peabody Museum ...
Laurie D. Webster, Hillel Burger, ...

Peabody Museum Press, 2005

This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman, avocational anthropologist, and patron of Southwestern archaeology. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but ...

Coin Banks by Banthrico*t
James L. Redwine, Jim Redwine

Schiffer Publishing, 2000

Cast metal coin banks have helped millions of people save money. They were often premiums given away by companies and banking institutions when a new account was opened. Over 1,000 color photos show the diversity of Banthrico coin banks, made in Chicago from 1931 until 1985. They resemble famous people, animals, trophies, vehicles, architecture, ...

Radios by Hallicrafters: With Price Guide (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Chuck Dachis

Schiffer Publishing, 1999

"The" Reference for Hallicrafters products!
My first shortwave receiver, as a 12 year old, was a Hallicafters S-38. I thought it was a really impressive looking radio then and have always loved the hallicrafters looks and the performance of their top end receivers. Chuck Dachis has clearly wrote the most ...

Idaho Montana Wyoming GPS Rock Collecting Mining Locations By Radtke
James Radtke

James Radtke, 2008

Idaho Montana Wyoming GPS Rock Collecting Mining Locations By James Radtke on c.d. rom, Have fun rockhounding in the great states of California and Nevada with his great reference guide to GPS mining rockhounding collecting sites. Fun for young and old. Book on c.d rom , not a DVD. Requires microsoft word to view all pages. Any picture viewer that ...