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Beads of the World: A Collector's Guide With Revised Price Reference (Schiffer Book for...
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Price Last Updated : 6-26-2008
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Features
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing; 2 Revised edition October 1, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076430884X
ISBN-13: 978-0764308840
Product Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Book Description
The friendly text and hundreds of color photographs of beads from around the world bring order to this awesome field of growing popular interest. This new book makes the identification of beads possible. Written to encourage collectors and clarify the origins and uses of beads in their native settings, this book provides the best and broadest reference available to date. Furthermore, newly revised pricing information makes this book useful in today's marketplace. Beads of organic, stone, and glass materials are individually discussed. Then Mr. Francis traces certain types of beads to their origins in Europe, the Middle East, India, the Far East, Southeast Asia, North and South America and Africa--literally circling the globe. Jewelry makers and collectors, artists, hobbyists and serious historians alike will find Mr. Francis's personally researched and clearly stated explanations fascinating.
About The Author
Peter Francis, Jr. is the founder of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York. His dedicated work as a bead historian has taken him around the world several times.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Beads of the World: A Collector's Guide With Price Reference (Paperback)
After 20 years working in Africa and collecting beads, I find this the best book of its type for people actually going into African markets, American bead shows, and flea markets looking to buy rare or collectible beads. It is not the right book for someone who doesn't yet know the basics about where and how the major types of beads are/were fabricated, how they have traveled, and the ethnographics associated with their past and present uses. (For those subjects, try Dubin, J. Allen, Liu, Picard, and Beckworth's Africa Adorned.) But for ballpark pricing, comparisons, and availability, there's nothing better in print.
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Beads of the World: A Collector's Guide With Revised Price Reference (Schiffer Book for...
by Peter Francis
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