Good, better, best
Subtitle: trade secrets for spotting a "find"
By: Carol Prisant.
Publisher: Viking Studio
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780142005279
Subjects: Antiques -- Expertising
Other titles: Trade secrets for spotting a "find"
Description: "Entertaining and accessible, 'Good, Better, Best' coaches novices and devotees in choosing the highest quality items. It does this by featuring three photographs of a good, better, and best example of hundreds of antiques that, together, show the antiquer exactly how to distinguish the treasure from the not a treasure. Packed with more than two hundred full-color photographs, this ingenious handbook is broad in scope and covers everything from brass doorsteps and porcelain plates to silver napkin rings and coffee tables from America and Europe..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Nineteenth-century enameled glass; title: Midcentury dining chairs; title: Oriental rugs; title: Cat paintings; title: American tea tables; title: Silver cream pitchers; title: Doorstops; title: American neoclassical (Empire) center tables; title: Parian; title: American Pilgrim chests; title: Nineteenth-century American dolls; title: Globes; title: Audubon prints; title: Sterling napkin rings; title: Windsor chairs; title: Twentieth-century American hand-painted porcelain; title: Nakashima coffee tables; title: Cocktail shakers; title: Silhouettes; title: Blue glass; title: Eighteenth-century English porcelain figures; title: English tea tables; title: Rose medallion punch bowls; title: Antique silver plate; title: Teddy bears; title: American longcase clocks; title: Art deco jewelry; title: Nineteenth-century English porcelain figures; title: Garden seats; title: American classical card tables; title: Blankets; title: Nineteenth-and twentieth-century European dolls; title: Candlesticks; title: Klismos chairs; title: Dollhouses; title: American plates; title: Clear glass compotes; title: Midcentury coffee tables; title: Figural napkin holders; title: Twentieth-century American Shirley Temple dolls; title: American shelf clocks; title: Chinese Chippendale; title: Aluminum; title: Dog paintings; title: Nineteenth-century continental porcelain; title: Decorative longcase clocks; title: Suzanis; title: Art glass compotes; title: English Regency card tables; title: Midcentury lamps; title: Pilgrim chairs; title: Twentieth-century American porcelain; title: Toast racks; title: Cameo glass; title: Twentieth-century sliver plate; title: Eighteenth-century European dolls; title: Continental empire tables; title: Teapots; title: Weather vanes; title: Four-poster beds; title: Sunburst mirrors; title: Midcentury dining tables; title: Travel posters; title: Eighteenth-century continental porcelain figures; title: Wineglasses.