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.
Reader Reviews
Lots of example values of pieces. Few have pictures, and even fewer have color pics. The listings are organized by category, but beyond that the details are buried in text and could have been better-separated. (I.e. having date and location of manufacture called out would be helpful.) I have a particular example--Chinese cloisonne pieces of particular ages have hand-written "China" on the bottom, while others have stamped "China" instead. This book does not clarify which mark identifies which era. This sort of thing definitely could use digitization. I would *love* to be able to search the entire text with keywords. I am a collector of Chinese pieces with bats. These pieces range from cloisonne to porcelains. I do appreciate identification guides for "signatures" and makers marks. I would have appreciated a guide to identifying fakes, as many of these items are faked on a regular basis.
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