Antique Glass (Starting to Collect)
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"Laid out in a phantastic manner. This is a book that needs to be required". -- Australian Bottle & Collectables Review, Jan.-March 2001. "Only once in a generation does a really fine bottle book get published. This review is about one of the best of them." -- The Magazine of the Federation of American Historical Bottle Collectors), June 2001 "This book is undoubtedly a major, wholly comprehensive, illustrated landmark guide and reference." -- Bottles and Extras (Magazine of the US FHBC), June 2001 "Willy's book is a Wow! The photographs are "out of this world",quality and breath unbelievable.A real must-have title".(British Bottle Review (BBR), April-June 2001) -- British Bottle Review (BBR), April-June 2001 Photographs superb,text well written,easy to understand.Book well bound.Attractive dust jacket,paper used inside of high quality,printing is excellent. -- David Westcott Publications, Australia, May 3, 2001 |
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Monica Lynn Clements is a teacher, a writer, and an antiques dealer specializing in rare books. Patricia Rosser Clements has three children, including her co-author. A longtime collector of antiques and an antiques dealer herself, her other interests include art, design, and photography.
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In this second edition author John Shuman III deftly points out that the term art glass is a "broad and very tolerant one, taking in vast arrays of glass techniques and colors. Glassmakers were fabricating during the Victorian era and will into the Art Nouveau period according to Shuman, from around 1880 up until as late as the 1930s. He adds, "their experimentation with decoration, techniques, and materials brought creativity in glass to its apex in the United States."
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This enthusiastic husband and wife team has been seriously studying, dealing, and collecting glass and antiques for twenty years.
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This book is organized alphabetically by item, and readers will see bowls, candlesticks, celery trays, comports, goblets, lamps, nappies, punch bowls, tumblers, miscellaneous tableware, vases, and much more. Company name, pattern, shapes, and sizes are given for each illustration. -Scott Kramer
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This 2nd edition of Hazel-Atlas Glass is the result of painstaking research through malls, antique shops, flea markets, catalogs and friends' collections as the authors re-gathered the basics about wares they had sold in the past. Chapters divided by type of glassware offer good-sized color photos and text description accompanied by histories and the latest valuation notes, making for an invaluable updated reference for any interested in Hazel-Atlas glassware.
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"Illustrated with all the finesse of a specialist book three times its price, this excellent publication tells you where to hunt for bargains and how to add rarities to a growing collection" Birmingham Post
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Mark F. Moran is Senior Editor, Antiques and Collectibles Books, for Krause Publications in Iola, Wis., and has been a contributing editor for Antique Trader magazine. He has also served as editor of Antique Review East magazine; as producer of Atlantique City, an antique show held in Atlantic City, N.J.; and as editorial director of F+W Media's Antiques Group. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 books on antiques and collectibles.
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