Antique Price Guides

Bottles (Identification and Price Guide, Antique Trader)

British Antique Furniture: Price Guide and Reasons for Values

Captain John's Fishing Tackle Price Guide

Book Description
Online dealers and collectors will delight in reeling in Captain John's Fishing Tackle Price Guide. Captain John, a.k.a. John Kolbeck, has been in the online fishing business for over 10 years and has sold thousands of items over the Internet 'Captain John' still spends up to 70 hours each week online buying and selling. His diligent record keeping has produced an amazing database of items and their actual selling prices which he and co-author Russell E. Lewis (a.k.a. 'findingo' and author of Modern Fishing Lure Collectibles, Volumes 1 and 2) have compiled into this handy reference guide. Each listing in the book contains the name, model, description, maker, condition, selling price, and date of sale. There are over 10,000 listings, of which over 7,000 are lures. There are also rods, reels, tackle boxes, catalogs and vintage advertisements, and over 1,000 miscellaneous items. All this data in one easy-to-use guide allows readers to see sales trends and compare lure makes, models, and conditions. Captain John estimates that 10% of his annual sales are to overseas buyers, so the over 10,000 prices at your fingertips allow you to track sales changes over time on a global scale. Representative photographs of each category are also provided to aid in identification. You'll be hooked when you snag Capt. John's Fishing Tackle Price Guide! AUTHORBIO: John Kolbeck has been a magazine editor, a full-time fishing guide, and outdoor writer, and is currently an antique lure dealer. He has always fished, but only started collecting old tackle about eight years ago. Now that the Internet has made it so easy to contact collectors, he makes his living as an antique tackle dealer. AUTHORBIO: Russell E. Lewis is the author of Modern Fishing Lure Collectibles, Volume 1 and Modern Fishing Lure Collectibles, Volume 2, as well as co-author of Captain John's Fishing Tackle Price Guide. Having collected fishing lures since 1950, he and his wife run a business, Heritage Tackle 'n Tiques, where he deals fishing lures online and at antique shows. REVIEW: This book features actual Internet auction sales results for fishing tackle, rods, and reels, and is a quick reference for collectors. If you have aCrazy Crawler you are wondering about, just go to the listings until you find the appropriate model and color and check it out. Condition is given, as well as pricing based on rarity and the amount of desirability. A section of color photos is included showing a variety of lures featured in the price guide.

Carter’s price guide to antiques in Australasia 1996

Carter's Price Guide to Antiques in Australasia

Carter's Price Guide to Antiques in Australasia

Ceramic Arts Studio: Identification and Price Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Book Description
Thousands of collectors will rejoice in this new guide to the products of Ceramic Arts Studio in Wisconsin. From 1942 to 1955, the pottery focused on the production of slipcast figurines which are avidly collected today. In over 250 color photographs Mike Schneider captures the beauty and charm of these figurines, providing a reference that has long been needed by collectors. The photographs are accompanied by a wealth of useful information including the history of the company and hints on care, repair, preservation, valuing, fakes, and reproductions. The figurines are organized by type with sections on People, The Animal Kingdom, Fantasies, Posy Pots, and Decorating the Walls. A Price Guide is included.

About The Author
Mike Schneider is a freelance writer whose previous works for Schiffer have won high praise from collectors and reviewers.

Children's Picturebook Price Guide, 2006-2007: Finding, Assessing, and Collecting...

Book Description
The Children's Picturebook Price Guide provides values for nearly 23,000 books, covering over 700 children's book illustrators dating from 1929 to 2006. For owners of picturebooks, the price guide is an essential tool to identify and assess their value.

Today's picturebook collecting market is similar to where the comic book market was in 1970, when Bob Overstreet published his first price guide. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide became the definitive guide to the hobby and helped to institutionalize values. The general population now has an understanding of the value of collectible comic books. James Beckett published his first price guide to baseball cards in 1979. Once considered a child's plaything, hardly anyone would now sell their Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays cards for pennies. In the case of both comic books and baseball cards, a large and vibrant collector base existed at the time of the respective price guide's publication--however the general population was not aware of the value for either. The price guide helped to get the message out.

According to the Children's Picturebook Price Guide, the most valuable picturebook is Where The Wild Things Are, with a first edition copy valued at over $10,000 in today's market. The price guide lists forty-four picturebooks with a market value over $1,000.

The Children's Picturebook Price Guide is more than a price guide, as the book's first 100 pages provides an overview to collecting children's picturebooks. This overview includes a brief history of how the picturebook came to be the picturebook, and concludes with an explanation for why today is the golden era of the picturebook. Today there are more illustrators and authors who make their living by creating picturebooks then at anytime in the past.

Chapter 2, "Factors Affecting Collectibility", provides details about the six key factors which impact a first edition book's collectibility and value. This is important, since it clearly and concisely provides the reader with information to assess a book's collectibility. Usually, a first edition book's value is prescribed through some altogether unknown process. By providing factors the reader can weigh, they can make more educated purchase decisions--and acquire books they feel the market is currently undervaluing.

Subsequent chapters describe different strategies or approaches to collecting picturebooks; identifying first editions; grading books; and also discussion/lists of the most valuable children's picturebooks, categorized by decade (i.e. "The Most Valuable Picturebooks of the 1990's").



Publisher Description
The thoughts put forth in the Childrens Picturebook Price Guide will help all potential booksellers and book collectors. Book collectors of any kind, and not just children's book collectors, will benefit from the logic and rationale put forth to assess a book's collectibility and value. If you, or someone you know, have children's books to sell, then the information contained in the Childrens Picturebook Price Guide could make you hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars.

China: Lyle Antiques and Their Values Identification and Price Guide

Classic Hunting Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide

Book Description
Hunting collectibles bring back that sense of a simpler time and the demand and prices for them have skyrocketed, with some pieces selling for more than $10,000! Classic Hunting Collectibles will appeal to novice collectors by giving them a comprehensive overview of what hunting collectibles are available, and seasoned collectors will appreciate viewing high-end quality pieces that are rarely available to the public.

This unparalleled reference offers nearly 1,000 brilliant, full-color photos of hunting-related items from the late 1800s to the early 1940s in spectacular detail. Posters, calendars, pin backs, catalogs, shot shell boxes from Winchester, Peters Cartridge Co., Dupont, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Union Metallic Co., Laflin and Rand Powder Co. are featured with current collector pricing for each piece. This book offers more than any other related book on the market.

-Nearly 1,000 full color, detailed photos -Current collector prices for each piece shown -No other hunting collectibles book compares

Cloth Dolls Identification and Price Guide, 1920s and 1930s

Book Description
Expansive photo guide to cloth dolls made by Lenci, Nora Welling, Chad Valley, and many others. Lavishly illustrated with a bevy of beautiful photos plus packed with detailed descriptions to make identification simple. Loaded with 1990 values by the best selling author of the Hard Plastic Doll series. Features 47 color and 271 b/w photographs. 256 pages.

Back Cover Copy
Many of the most popular dolls created during the fascinating era of the golden 1920s and the sober 1930s are pictured and identified for the first time in this multi-purpose book on cloth dolls.

The cloth dolls of the Art Deco period were flashy, expensive mirrors of the society which created them. Made in a period of affluence when art and quality were important, the 1920s dolls reflected a dashing and disturbing world. The economic crash changed people's lives and their dolls; the 1930s dolls became less extravagant. A wealth of information on companies such as Lenci, Norah Wellings and Chad Valley is included along with the dolls' 1990 values.

Collectible Ashtrays: Information and Price Guide

Book Description
Ashtrays have always been popular as collectibles, as they are available in a endless variety of forms. Originally designed and manufactured to be purely functional, ashtrays soon found their way into the advertising world as both promotional items and souvenirs. This book provides an easy way to explore the collectible world of ashtrays. Over 460 beautiful color photos of unusual ashtrays and companion pieces are included to help the collectors identify and price their own finds. Filled with interesting facts, it gives insight to the evolution of ashtrays, and explains how they became such hot collectibles. The many materials used in the production of ashtrays, including glass, ceramics, and porcelain, are also discussed in the book.

About The Author
Jan Lindenberger resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has lived there since 1977, but she is originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, where she first became a lover of antiques and, in 1972, an antique dealer. Jan's main interest and specialty is Black Memorabilia, of which she has one of the largest known collections in the U.S.A. She has written many books and articles on such subjects as Black Memorabilia, '50s and '60s collectibles, antiques, and vintage fashion.