Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List 1997 [antikvár]

READ THIS BEFORE YOU USE THIS BOOK- IT WILL HELP This is a book for the average collector. All year we check prices, visít shops and shows, read our mail, check on-line computer services and the Internet, and decide what antiques and collectibles are of most interest. We concentrate on the average pieces in any category. We sometimes include one or two high-priced pieces in a category so you will realize that somé of the rarities are quite valuable. For example, the mechanical banks listed this year sold for $25 to $44,000. Although pieces of furniture, silver, Tiffany, or art pottery may sell for more than $50,000, we list few of those examples here. The highest price in this book is $57,200 for a Newcomb Pottery vase. The lowest price is 10 cents for a bottle cap. Most pieces we list are less than $10,000. We even list the weird and wonderful, and this year you can find prices for a horse-drawn hearse, a boneshaker bicycle, a shoehorn shaped like a man's leg, and an English "Pearlies" suit covered with mother-of-pearl buttons. The smallest object is a Vrinch political button printed "Go Goldwater"; the largest is a 69-foot fence. The book is changed slightly each year. Categories are added or omitted to make it easier for you to find what you are interested in. The book is kept at about 800 pages because it is written to go with you to sales. We try to have a balanced formát-not too much glass, pottery, or collectibles, not too many items that sell for over $5,000. The prices are/rom the American markét for the American markét. Few European sales are reported. We take the editorial privilege of not including any prices that seem to result from "auction fever." The computer-generated index is so complete it amazes us. Use it often. An internál alphabetical index is alsó included. For example, there is a category for "Celluloid." Most items made of celluloid will be found there, but if there is a toy made of celluloid, it will be listed under "Toy" and alsó indexed under "Celluloid." There are alsó cross-references in the listings and in the paragraphs. But somé searching must be done. For example, Barbie dolls are found in the doll category; there is no Barbie category. And when you look at "doll, Barbie" you will see a note that telis you that Barbie is under "doll, Mattel, Barbie" because most dolls are listed by maker. All pictures and prices are new every year, except pictures that are pattern examples shown in "Depression Glass" and "Pressed Glass." The pictures have been computer enhanced to make them as crisp as possible. Antiques pictured are not museum pieces but items offered for sale. We hate to waste space, so whenever computer generated spaces appeared we filled them with tips about care of collections, security, and other useful information. These tips are set in special type, a bit larger and easier to read. Leaf through the book and learn how to wash porcelains, store textiles, guard against theft, and much more. Don't discard this book when it is time