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A Vase of Mistaken Identity (Thea James Mystery Series, Book 1)

Product Review
"A Vase of Mistaken Identity is a classic cozy mystery. Thea is a delightful heroine and follows clues in a logical manner. But the nice thing is her realness. I leave clean laundry piles out on occasion and have been known to chase down my cat in my slippers. I love her kindness toward the homeless guy too. The setting is quaint, I would love to visit her shop!" (Linda Mae Baldwin The Road to Romance )

"Cathy Elliott's debut novel is a delightfully entertaining read, in the genre of 'cozy mystery.' Her characters are quirky and humorous, and several times I found myself laughting out loud at her protagonist's crazy antics and self-talk. I could relate with amusement to moments such as when the police investigate a break-in at Thea's cottage, and she allows them to believe her home was ransacked rather than admit to a case of bad housekeeping! Elliott's heroine is so very humanoshe endears herself to the reader from the very first page, and you can't help but admire Thea's bumbling bravery as she searches for answers to the mysteries she finds herself embroiled inothe one unfolding in Larkindale and the mystery of God's love unfolding in her own rebellious heart. The townsfolk are three-dimentional characters that really come to life; full of quirks and whimsy that help them to stay with you long after the story has ended. The novel even includes instructions for making the same quilt that Thea makes in between playing detective. A thoroughly enjoyable and light-hearted read and I very much hope that we hear more from the wonderful town of Larkindale and its unforgettable characters." (Rachel Koopmans CB Reviews )

"If you're looking for a delicious suspense mystery with quirky, realistic characters and a page-turning plot, don't miss Elliott's A Vase of Mistaken Identity." (Gloria Mareschal livinglightnews.org )

Product Description
When Thea James discovers a puzzling list inside a vintage vase, she finds four names on the list . . . including her own! Follow this small-town antique dealer as she becomes a relentless detective on the trail of a killer in this page-turner mystery. Guaranteed fiction! (20061020)

American Furniture: Chests, Cupboards, Desks And Other Pieces: the Antique Hunter's Guide

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This handy, authoritative guide contains over 300 premier examples of American case furniture -- chests, cupboards, & desks -- built from the 17th century to the mid-20th. From Federal, Chippendale & Empire styles to country, Mission & mid-century modern, this splendid array of furniture has been photographed appraised, & categorized specifically for the collector. Each photo is accompanied by an extensive caption that examines the maker, year of manufacture, materials of the piece, & hints for collectors such as the scarcity of the piece, demand, condition, & points to check before buying. A price guide rounds out this indispensable guidebook. "A boon for the general collector." 100+ color illustrations.

Antique Hunter's Guide to American Silver and Pewter

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This visual antique reference guide has all the information readers need to identify and appraise American silver and pewter-from Colonial times to the present. Each piece-450 in all-is photographed in full color and accompanied by a detailed description of the piece, origin, date of manufacture, relationship to similar pieces and rarity, and hints for collectors, helping readers spot potentially valuable heirlooms stashed at home or at garage sales, consignment stores and flea markets.

From the Inside Flap
With over 450 examples of American silver, silver-plated, and pewter; American Silver & Pewter is the ultimate guide to the highly popular field of collectibles. From lovely Victorian flatware to graceful Federal tureens to beautifully shaped pewter tankards, this volume covers the entire range of silver and pewter objects made in America and is perfect for novice and experienced collectors alike.

Expertly researched, this handy volume features a full-color photograph of each object, accompanied by an extensive caption describing the object, its marks and dimensions, its maker and the date in was made, as well as hints for collectors such as scarcity, demand, and background information on the maker.

Easy-to-use, portable, and brimming with information, American Silver & Pewter also features a reference guide to flatware patterns (illustrated with line drawings), a glossary, and a guide to makers and their marks. An up-to-date price guide provides a range of prices for each piece, as well as a selection of comparison prices for English-made and other equivalent pieces.

Antique Iron: Identification and Values

Product Description
Antique cast-iron collectibles are featured in over 400 photographs. Included are farming, kitchen, toys, banks, and more cast-iron collectibles. This handy value guide is a wealth of information for the collector. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Kathryn McNerney was well-known for her expertise in many fields of antiques and collectibles, including kitchen antiques, antique tools, primitives, blue white stoneware, American oak and Victorian furniture, and antique iron. Her books saw many revised editions, and her books became standard references in the field. She left behind many followers who continue to consult her books and who have made them part of their permanent libraries. REVIEW: This book is a must for collectors of antique iron. A handy pocket guide with current collector values.

About The Author
Kathryn McNerney was well-known for her expertise in many fields of antiques and collectibles, including kitchen antiques, antique tools, primitives, blue & white stoneware, American oak and Victorian furniture, and antique iron. Her books saw many revised editions, and her books became standard references in the field. She left behind many followers who continue to consult her books and who have made them part of their permanent libraries.

Antique Oak Furniture: An Illustrated Value Guide

Product Description
In recent years oak furniture has become a very collectible item. The good solid oak pieces that were so popular from 1850 to 1930 have won the hearts of collectors. Antique Oak Furniture contains over 900 detailed black and white photographs showcasing most every style imaginable: chairs, desks, dressers, clocks, tables, couches, china cabinets, rockers, hall trees, washstands, mirrors, wardrobes, and more. 2003 values. AUTHORBIO: Conover Hill published a book, Antique Oak Furniture in 1978 that is still in print today and used by collectors across the country during their searches for antique oak pieces. REVIEW: This book will be an invaluable aid in your search for collectible oak furnishings. Detailed black and white illustrations showcase beds, chairs, tables, washstands, china cabinets, desks, dressers, buffets, and more. Current collector values are given for every piece shown.

Antique Quilts and Textiles: A Price Guide to Functional and Fashionable Cloth Comforts

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This book contains hundreds of color photographs that identify, illustrate, and evaluate antique textiles of interest in the marketplace today, including quilts, coverlets, Marseille spreads, bonnets, Amish socks, aprons, petticoats, and other fashions for the body and home. The information included in the book allows the reader to familiarize himself with both commonplace and fancy items, and provides a source to guide and educate the inexperienced buyer about currently popular collectibles. It also provides a resource for appraisers and others interested in current market values. Both nineteenth and twentieth century items are included, representative of art and function of everyday living. AUTHORBIO: Bobbie Aug and Sharon Newman met in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. Both were in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Currently, both serve as members of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. AUTHORBIO: Gerald Roy comes to quiltmaking from a fine art background. After receiving an MFA in painting, he taught art for 10 years in Oakland, CA. Growing up in Massachusetts, he developed a deep love and appreciation for American antiques. Eventually he and his late partner, Paul Pilgrim, opened a gallery on the west coast. Ever since his first serious quilt purchase in 1969, Gerald has been involved in an all-consuming quest to collect the finest examples of quilts. REVIEW: Bobbie Aug and Gerald Roy's Antique Quilts and Textiles provides a price guide to functional cloths, from pieced quilts and comforters to clothing. Plenty of color plates provide clear pictures of cloth 'comforts' while descriptions begin with an introduction in each chapter and move to histories of each cloth style and type. -Midwest Book Review

Antique Tool Collectors Guide to Value

Book Description
This book describes, prices, and illustrates 56+ categories of antique tools! Types of tools included are: Axes, Anvils, Blacksmith, Chair Making, Chisels, Cobbler, Cooper, Knives, Drills, Farrier, Files & Rasps, Hammers, Hatchets, Lathes, Mallets, Planes, Pliers, Rules, Saws, Screwdrivers, Shears, Shipwright, Squares, Tinsmith, Tool Chests, Tool Holders, Vises, Wrenches, & Many More Items! Thousands of old tools are shown!

Antique Trader Answers to Questions About Antiques and Collectibles

Antique Trader Oriental Antiques and Art: An Identification and Price Guide

Book Description
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.

* Explore the Far East with more than 650 photographs * Each section includes historical backgrounds and detailed descriptions * Current market values for Asian treasures

About The Author
Mark F. Moran is an antiques dealer and author specializing in vintage folk art, Americana, prints, and paintings. In addition to compiling reference books on antique American and European furniture, metalwares, clocks, and sterling silver flatware, he has written for numerous national antiques magazines covering shows and auctions. Mark is also author of Warman's Sterling Silver Flatware: Value & Identification Guide and Warman's Tobacco Collectibles and contributing editor to Antique Trader? Clocks Price Guide and Antique Trader? Metalwares Price Guide. He resides in Rochester, Minnesota.

Antiques Price Guide 2005 (Antiques Price Guide)

From Publishers Weekly
With its color photographs of everything from acajou wood boxes to Zsolny-Pecs ceramic figurines, Miller's whopper of a guide resembles a Sotheby's catalog, except it lists prices. The hefty book will be of use to collectors and buyers in need of a general pricing guide and is divided into categories such as "porcelain," "furniture," "toys and dolls," "film," "decorative arts," "lighting" and "American painting." Miller's prices are "ballpark figures" (for example, a Baccarat ruby cameo crystal vase may fetch anywhere from $1,000 to $1,300) and are based on actual prices checked by consultants. In addition to the many photographed entries, Miller (A Closer Look at Antiques) has included directories of auctioneers and specialists. This phonebook-like volume of over 8,500 antiques may be too general for collectors primarily interested American stoneware, Staffordshire dogs, or other specific kinds of antiques, and the full-page advertisements for auction houses may turn off some readers. Still, this comprehensive guide might be the perfect introduction amateur antiques enthusiasts need.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Book Description
Assessing the value of antiques has never been easier or more enjoyable. Featuring the expert advice of internationally acclaimed antiques specialist Judith Miller, this guide contains the latest prices, market trends, and tips on where and how to buy and sell everything from furniture, glass, textiles, and jewelry, to pottery, porcelain, silver, and tribal art. With profiles of over 8,500 antiques and specially commissioned full-color photographs, Antiques Price Guide 2005 is an easy-to-use, practical guide for buyers, sellers, and collectors.

Antiques Price Guide 2006 (Antiques Price Guide)

Book Description
Containing the latest prices, market trends, and tips on where and how to buy and sell everything from furniture, glass, textiles, and jewelry, to pottery, porcelain, silver, and tribal art, the Antiques Price Guide 2006 is a practical guide for buyers, sellers, and collectors.

About The Author
One of the world's leading experts in the field, Judith Miller began collecting in the 1960's and has since written more than 80 books, many of which are held in high regard by collectors and dealers. Since October 2002, DK and Judith Miller have launched several series, including the Antiques Price Guides, Collectibles Price Guides, and the DK Collector's Guides.

Antiques Roadshow Collectibles: The Complete Guide to Collecting 20th Century Glassware,...

From Publishers Weekly
This lavishly illustrated and enthusiastically written guide to modern collectibles is another success by Prisant (Antiques Roadshow Primer), capturing on the printed page the excitement of the top-rated PBS television series Antiques Roadshow. An excellent introductory essay, "Collecting 101," is a helpful look at the field of collecting itself that includes some tips that even the most experienced collector should remember ("Work on self-discipline"). But this is clearly a book for the novice, and Prisant makes it clear that this is not a definitive work but "a brief overview of the types of collectibles that are brought most often to Antiques Roadshow." Her selection is impeccable, and she provides highly informative chapters on ceramics, advertising, glass, sports collectibles, toys, fashion and textiles, dolls and doll accessories, wristwatches, photography, entertainment memorabilia and furniture. The true beauty of this volume is the hundreds of photographs of the collectibles themselves, everything from Picasso-designed pottery and Miriam Haskell necklaces to a Lou Gehrig-signed baseball and one of Mr. Spock's outfits from Star Trek. Even the more experienced collector will be surprised at the range of artifacts produced in the 20th century.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
Thanks to Antiques Roadshow, the highest rated, long running prime-time series on PBS®, with millions of viewers a week, we are a nation seeking fortune in our attics. And thanks to Antiques Roadshow Primer, with 572,000 copies in print, we are highly antiques-literate. But there's another audience out there, too, showing up ever more frequently on Antiques Roadshow--those obsessive, bitten-by-the-bug collectors. Bring on the Maltese Falcon posters!

Celebrating the collectible--that 20th-century object that brings with it less monetary value than passion, nostalgia, quirky appeal, and just plain pleasure--Antiques Roadshow Collectibles focuses on 12 major areas that inspire both the thrill of the chase and the thrill of discovery: furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising memorabilia, sports, glass and pottery, and more. A guide to value rather than price, it is packed with a wealth of information that will help turn any interested flea market fiend into a first-class collector. From the innovative design of Bertoia chairs to the high-quality crafting of costume jewely to the surprising variety of PEZ dispensers, here are 416 pages brimming with information. Bound into the book is a 32-page full-color section, while hundreds of black-and-white photographs illustrate every chapter. There are Antiques Roadshow discoveries, tips from experts and appraisers, the steps to becoming a focused collector--even how to use pieces without compromising their value. After all, isn't it more fun to eat off the Fiestaware?