The hard-to-find information, sources, and addresses that collectors need for repairing, caring for, and finding buyers for antiques and collectibles are all in this book. To gather the information for this book, Ralph and Terry Kovel contacted more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and other industry sources around the country, making this the most up-to-date and complete reference of its kind.
Kovels' Quick Tips 799 Helpful Hints on How to Care for Your Collectibles Want to know how to clean your stuffed moose head, remove the gum stain from a baseball card, repair a cracked porcelain figurine, hang a vintage dress, or hide a scratch on your piano? In Kovels' Quick Tips, experts Ralph and Terry Kovel reveal those secrets and many more. As the Heloise of the antiques world, the Kovels tell you how to care for and maintain the treasures in your home, from your favorite jewelry, heirloom silver, and childhood toys to your Coca-Cola bottle collection, kitchen utensils, books, and family photographs. Organized by subject, this handy and fun little book includes 799 tips collected by the Kovels over the past 25 years that will appeal to everyone who has gathered a treasured assortment of collectibles and household items. This book is complete with a list of product sources.
A Collector's Directory of Names, Addresses, Telephone and Fax Numbers, E-mail, and Internet Addresses to Make Selling, Fixing, and Pricing Your Antiques and Collectibles Easy
A Collector's Directory of Names, Addresses, Telephone and Fax Numbers, E-mail, and Internet Addresses to Make Selling, Fixing, and Pricing Your Antiques and Collectibles Easy
Need an eye for your teddy bear? Searching for another soup spoon to complete Grandma's silver? Looking for someone to repair your porcelain doll? Wondering if restoring your carousel horse will lower its value? Kovels' Yellow Pages is the ultimate directory for collectors. It helps you find sources for repair, restoration, and parts, and it lists matching services, appraisers, and auction houses--all you need to help you maintain the value of your antiques and add to your enjoyment of collecting. America's antiques experts, Ralph and Terry Kovel, also give you "insider" information on how to navigate the complicated world of buying, selling, and collecting antiques. They have distilled a lifetime's worth of information to give you the last word on Where to start when you've inherited a house full of stuff How to know if you need an appraiser and where to find one When giving away an antique is more profitable than selling it If repairing or restoring an object will lower or enhance its value How to bid in out-of-town auctions Kovels' Yellow Pages gives you firsthand information from more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and industry sources nationwide. You'll find names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, plus e-mail and Internet addresses. There's also an extensive bibliography of price books and reference books most helpful to collectors. With this guide, you have at your fingertips the most complete and up-to-date collector's reference available anywhere.
America's antiques experts Ralph and Terry Kovel present the 27th edition of the best-selling price guide in America, with this year's prices for the antiques and collectibles most sought by today's collectors. Includes the most comprehensive cross-referenced index of its kind.
The 43rd edition of America's leading price guide on antiques and collectibles, features all-new "actual" prices in 700 categories and includes more than 2,500 photographs. ""Kovels'" guides are considered the bibles of the field."--"The New York Times.
Alphabetically arranged entries provides retail prices for more than 50,000 different antiques and collectibles, with photographs, factory marks and logos, and a special report on record-breaking prices for 2003.
America's most popular price guide for collectors, dealers and appraisers. As America's passion for antiques and collectibles continues to grow, this new edition is indispensable. Over 500 categories - Everything from ABC plates to Zane pottery is easily accessible in the 37th edition of this annual bestseller. This new edition features: - An exclusive market report on record-setting prices of the past year. -A new 16-page full-color insert - More than 50,000 new items and prices--what collectors really paid at shows, sales, nationwide auctions, and on the Internet. - More than 400 black-and-white photographs, plus hundreds of factory marks and identifying logos.
Shows and identifies more than thirty-five hundred American, English, and European trademarks for porcelain and pottery, and indicates period of use for each mark
Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as brief references to his principal books. Professor Goldman's years at Michigan State and San Francisco State Universities provided opportunities for instructional experimentation and management of educational programs: at MSU, the American Politics Graduate Training Program; at San Francisco State, experiments in small-group peer-instruction. Other experiments: self-paced instruction; an assessment program for political science majors, and simulations of disarmament conferences. His RolePlay is an innovative teaching program for K-12 social studies.
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