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The Essential Guide to Collectibles

Author: Alistair McAlpine

Publisher: Studio

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 648

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In the age of Antiques Roadshow fever, there has been an explosion of interest in all things collectible. In The Essential Guide, collectors of every specialty can find their particular passions organized by category -- in both European and North American collections. This unique and practical guide identifies and locates more than two hundred of the most popular types of collectibles in museums, galleries, house museums, and other collections -- from the famous to the obscure to the eccentric. Over 700 entries on more than 170 subjects, extensively photographed, are drawn from more than 1,200 museums in Europe and America. The Essential Guide enables readers to plan travel around their interests and enhance their journey with Lord McAlpine's expert and entertaining voice.

Gus and Duncan's Comprehensive Guide to Star Wars Collectibles

Author: Duncan Jenkins

Publisher:

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 994

ISBN-13:

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A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards

Author: Bowers David Q Martin Mary

Publisher: Whitman Publishing

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780794847371

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A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards "takes you on a unique trip into the past. Inside this book, you'll find cards of high society and lowbrow humor, natural disasters, social, political, and religious movements, popular artists' illustrations, newspaper comics, circus animals, early movie stars, athletes, planes, trains, automobiles, and the corner general store--and much more! Authors Q. David Bowers and Mary L. Martin share decades of experience in buying, selling, and collecting. They guide you from the earliest postcards of the 1870s to the Golden Age of the 1890s through the Great War, and to the modern chrome postcards found on store racks today."--Publishers website.

Collectible California Raisins(tm)

Author: Pamela Duvall Curran

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 1997-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764304330

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Born of popular advertising and projected to near stardom, the California Raisins*t held sway in the United States for nearly a decade. Starting with figural characters distributed with everything from fast food to fast car promotions, the California Raisins*t soon appeared on every imaginable item, from bed linens to wallets. The range of Raisins collectibles is represented in this authoritative illustrated guide through over 500 color photos of collectible items and their values.

Elsie the Cow and Borden's Collectibles

Author: Albert Coito

Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764310720

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From the American bald eagle in the 1860s to Elsie the Cow*r in 1939, The Borden Company has promoted its array of dairy products--including milk, cheese, eggs, coffee, ice cream, and even dog food--with images that have become American icons. This book is the first-ever complete collector's guide for Elsie the Cow and Borden's company items with over 400 color photographs of advertising signs, toys, games, china, bottles, and glass wares, pottery, lighters, neon signs, jewelry, lamps, and much more.

Conservation Concerns

Author: Konstanze Bachmann

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 1992-04-17

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1560981741

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Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment.

Goldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting

Author: Dave Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781440248030

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Featuring individual artists, the hottest genres, rarities, tips for buying and selling, not to mention the critical differences between modern reissues vs. early pressings, this exciting new title is the perfect how-to guide for a new generation of vinyl record music lovers and collectors. Vinyl records are Back in Black. And this how-to guide is the perfect reference for the millions of young vinyl enthusiasts--as well as an older crowd returning to their vinyl roots. You will find chapters on collecting individual artists and genres (Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Psych, Punk, Surf, Northern Soul and many others taking you through the advent of vinyl to today. Author Dave Thompson will discuss the greatest rarities on the market, grading, artwork, the keys to successful buying and selling, coloured vinyl, picture discs and a host of other cool topics sure to light the fire to those new (and old) to the vinyl party. AUTHOR: Dave Thompson is one of the leading authorities on all things music. He is the editor and vinyl record market analyst for Standard Catalog of American Records, Goldmine Album Price Guide and Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide. Thompson has published more than 100 books--including 1000 Songs That Rock Your World--and is a regular contributor to Goldmine magazine, as well as Rolling Stone. A prodigious writer, Thompson was ranked as one of the Top 5 biographers by Mojo magazine. His biographies have included works on David Bowie, Deep Purple, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, KISS and many, many more. SELLING POINTS: * A handy, compact how-to guide for collecting vinyl records that includes the greatest rarities on the market in collectible genres such as Rock, Punk, Surf, Psychedelic, Northern Soul and more. * Play it or stash it - shows readers what's valuable and what's simply fun. * Includes a Grading Guide - so you don't get screwed by the unrighteous. * For the 7th straight year, more vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since Nielsen started tracking music sales in 1991.