It includes approximately 75 different categories of collectibles and provides a shop locator and a direct hotlink to the Kovel Price Guide. It is beautifully laid out and easy to maneuver. This fantastic online resource lists hundreds of articles with information on prices and marks, hot news, tips about fakes, and FAQs for collectors. Online links to other resources are supplemented by ordering information for a host of publications, leaflets, and videos. Sotheby's Online This highly informative and extremely sophisticated web site provides users with a wide range of information concerning auctions.
Users can view objects and items available in forthcoming sales and check previous auction results.
The online magazine, Sotheby's Connoisseur , features collecting guides with information on what to look for, care and restoration, time lines, what to collect, and terminology and directs the user to related topics. The Longs show readers how to hold onto family history by preserving precious belongings. First-time buyers and professionals use this comprehensive and authoritative price guide for its wealth of reference information, e.g., directories of dealers, specialists, and auction houses' a glossary of terms' and fact boxes on key makers, styles, techniques, identification marks, and further readings. Each fully annotated entry offers dates, condition, price ranges, and photographs. The focus is on traditional categories of items, including furniture, silver, porcelain, paintings, metalwork, and rugs.