This book will provide you with the story and history of Wallace Nutting furniture, including how to differentiate lower quality pieces from Nutting's best and most collectible work, what types of furniture he reproduced and why it is so collectilbe today, ways to identify signed and unsigned pieces, how to distinguish reproductions from the original period antiques, and it even includes a numerical furniture grading system for evaluating condition. This book will provide you with up-to-date pricing, including actual auction and retail pricing, as well as consensus expert pricing on those rare and never-before-seen Nutting pieces. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: Michael Ivankovich has been collecting hand-colored photography for over 25 years, especially David Davidson, Fred Thompson, and Sawyer. He is generally considered to be the country's leading authority on Wallace Nutting and Wallace Nutting-like pictures, as well as WallaceNutting books, furniture, and memorabilia. He is the author of Collector's Guide to Wallace Nutting Pictures, Early 20th Century American Prints, and Wallace Nutting Furniture. REVIEW: This book is presented in a handy format for collectors to log their finds. Presented in a checklist-type format, the book showcases more than 2,300 Precious Moments company figurines, accompanied by descriptions, collector values according to mark/understamp, dates of issue, and item numbers.
