Antique Price Guides

Antique Trader Stoneware and Blue and White Pottery Price Guide

Book Description
The beautiful glazed crocks, jugs and churns that were commonly used for food storage in the late 1800s and early 1900s have always attracted collectors. Today, that interest is more alive than ever--and now collectors can reference a full-color, comprehensive guide to their favorite stoneware pieces.

Revered antiques expert Kyle Husfloen has teamed up with the American Pottery Auction to offer this guide, featuring 1,000 brilliant color photos of highly collectible stoneware. Detailed listings including descriptions, manufacturer's mark information and current pricing give collectors the essential information they need to make secure purchases. Stoneware collectors won't find a more comprehensive and easy-to-use identification and price guide anywhere else.

-1,000 listings of collectible stoneware -Full-color photo of each piece listed -Detailed descriptions include manufacturer's marks

Antique Trader Teapots Price Guide

Book Description
Collectors, antique dealers, home decorators and enthusiasts can reference the most comprehensive guide to their "short and stout" favorites available, with 1,000 brilliant color images of the best teapots of three centuries.

Author Kyle Husfloen offers this full-color, easy to use reference, with coverage of teapots in all major materials including ceramics, metals (brass, copper, sterling silver and silver plate) and even glass. More than 1,300 listings include the latest pricing information from dealers and major auctions sources, as well as detailed information on material, maker, age, decoration and size.

-1,000 full color images of collectible teapots -1,300+ listings include current pricing and detailed descriptions -Offers tips on spotting fakes and forgeries

Antique Trader Tools Price Guide

Book Description
Gain reliable information from the expert author, whose auction house conducts more than 15 tool auctions annually, and owns the world-record auction of a Plow Plane that sold for $114,000.

Contains more than 700 stunning color photos that serve as a blueprint to the intensely active world of collectible tools.

The very tools that literally helped build a nation are among today's most coveted collectibles. Elegant and ingenious in design, antique hand tools are as beautiful today as they were once essential, and in this skillfully crafted price guide these tools take center stage. This new, full-color edition covers the most popular collectible tool categories from the late 18th century through the middle of the 20th century, including:

• Planes and Saws
• Screwdrivers and Wrenches
• Levels and axes
• Rules and tool chests

Antique Trader Vintage Clothing Price Guide (Antique Trader)

Book Description
-Diverse appeal - hip young consumer crowd into retro clothes and veteran collectors with a passion and an eye for vintage

-Vintage clothing is featured in 64,000 auctions daily on eBay

From 1920s flapper dresses to 1950s beaded cardigans and bell-bottom jeans of the '70s, vintage clothing is helping to define today's fashions. This book covers pricing and history of affordable items sold at general stores including Sears and Montgomery-Ward, as well as expensive couture from leading designers such as Chanel and Dior. In this handy guide, historians, collectors and consumers with an eye for fashion will discover:

-Clothes and accessories from the 1800s-1979 for men, women and children

-1,200 detailed color photos to assist with identification

-History snippets about each era featured

-Prices and identification for more than 2,500 items

Antique Trader Vintage Magazines Price Guide

Book Description
Whether it's historic relevance or artistic impression that draws people to collect magazines, this handy reference with 1,000 full-color photos and updated pricing is the perfect tool for collectors. With listings for magazines of 1830 to post-WWII, Antique Trader Vintage Magazine Price Guide is the most comprehensive guide on the market.

This thorough reference explores magazines that feature the work of literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and famed illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and The Strand Magazine are featured with sub-categories and listings to assist collectors in identification. This celebration of print history is sure to please current collectors, and spark an interest in anyone with an attic full of vintage magazines.

-Features 250+ magazines

-Contains 1,000 brilliant photos of covers and images

Antique Trader: Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide, Fifth Edition

Antique Trader's Collector Magazine and Price Guide May 2003

Antique Trader's Collector Magazine and Price Guide November 1994

Antique Trader's Collector Magazine and Price Guide October 1994

Antique Trader's Country Americana Price Guide: Price Guide (Antique Trader's Country...

Product Review
Devoted to Antiques Roadshow? Wondering if Great-Granddad's cane is worth anything? If it's a carved Narwhal whalebone presentation cane, it's worth $2,530. And that delicate 14-inch platter you picked up at an estate sale just might be Mulberry Ware and worth $250.

The Country Americana Price Guide is devoted to early American antiques and their modern-day collectibility. Though "Country Americana" is often thought of as products produced and used in rural areas, editor Kyle Husfloen points out that many items we consider "country" were actually mass-produced in cities. For the guide's purposes, he says "country" refers to "items [which] reflect our yearning for the charm and nostalgia of the 'good old days.'"

With 43 categories, the book covers a vast amount of collectibles from baskets and bootjacks to cash registers to fruit jars to woodenwares and writing accessories. Each section is prefaced by an explanation of what the items were used for, where and when they were produced, and a comment on the current prices. Descriptions are short and clear. For example, "Pitcher, 10" h. brushed cobalt blue tulip decoration, 'Burger & Lang, Rochester, NY,' 1 gal., ca. 1870 (some surface wear & chips along the rim from use) $605." Each page features four or five black-and-white photos of the items, plus there is a 16-page section of color examples.

For beginning collectors, auctioneer Tom Porter provides a set of rules to shop by. Rule number one, he says, is "buy what you like" because "who can put an monetary value on enjoyment?" While the Country Americana Price Guide is interesting to leaf through, it's primarily meant for serious collectors. --Dana Van Nest

Book Description
Country Americana is one of the hottest collecting and decorating fields in the US. Now this completely revised, updated and expanded third edition covers more than 40 country related categories, all highlighted by over 1000 photographs. Everything from baskets to woodenwares is included, with each item carefully described and priced. Many leading authorities provide expertise and a special 16 page full color section and helpful appendices further enhance this valuable overview of the market. Sure to appeal to HGTV viewers and devotees of trendsetters such as Martha Stewart.

Antique Trunks: Identification and Price Guide

Book Description
Both functional and beautiful, a growing number of people are interested in and fascinated with antique trunks. Many baby boomers unsure of their value or how to restore them are now inheriting them from parents and grandparents. This comprehensive book provides identification and pricing information for popular styles dating back nearly 200 years, as well as general restoration tips and techniques.

Antique Trunks provides readers with photographs and values for steamer, humpback, Saratoga, Jenny Lind, Louis Vuitton, stagecoach, and many others. Authors Pat Morse and Linda Edelstein have included valuable historical information for major styles of trunks made from 1750 through 1930. This complete guide also offers information on what to look for when purchasing a trunk, a database of more than 250 trunk makers, and a catalog of available parts and replacement pieces.

* More than 400 detailed photographs and prices for nearly 200 years of popular trunk styles * Includes an archive of original and restored trunk makers? labels, Victorian prints, and trunk maker advertisements * Provides a special section on the anatomy of a trunk and a glossary of terms

About The Author
Involved in the antique business for more than 30 years-- restoring, refinishing, and repairing antique trunks--Pat Morse and Linda Edelstein have written a number of articles on antiques and collectibles, including trunks, fountain pens, and more. Pat and Linda have teamed up before to publish a book on trunks, and together they now operate The Trunk Shop in Barrington, New Hampshire, formerly located in Portsmouth.

Antique Woodwind Instruments: An Identification And Price Guide

Book Description
This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing upon the author's many years of research in the field, the book includes a brief history of European woodwind instruments made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographies of important makers; a glossary of terms that will be a welcome help for the novice; a list of key systems; resources for obtaining further information from books, museums, societies, and online; and most importantly, information and nearly 300 images taken from over 20 trade catalogs printed between 1880 and 1930 in Europe and the United States. Featured among these is a complete translation of William Heckel's rare, circa 1930 catalog. This comprehensive volume is an outstanding resource for beginning and advanced collectors of musical instruments as well as for museum curators.