This is an illustrated pocket guide to identifying and dating furniture for collectors. Each double-page spread is devoted to a particular item and gives a question-and-answer guide to identification, followed by a detailed analysis. There are notes on fakes and restorations. The guide features analyses of individual types of furniture, organized by category and period, from America, England and the continent. Special spreads are given over to woods, legs and feet, handles, pediments and mouldings. Special categories include drawered furniture, seat furniture, tables, writing furniture, bookcases and cabinets, mirrors and beds. A companion checklist of art deco antiques is published simultaneously.

Miller's Antique Checklist: Furniture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Davidson, Richard

Miller, Judith (editor)

Miller, Martin (editor)

Antiques & Collectibles

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

Arthur Blake, Pastor of Parkville United Methodist Church, has to deal with the afteref-fects of a traumatic communion incident. He works to assist the authorities in investigat-ing the cause while doing his best to convince members of his congregation that it is safe to return to church. Working with the police and federal agencies, he discovers that the terror of the initial event is minor compared with the potential chaotic impact of future disasters being planned by the perpetrator, a hidden assailant planning sinister operations. Arthur works closely in the investigative process with Parkville Police Chief Bobby Andrews, County Medical Examiner Irma Custis, plus the married team of Penny and Joe Gonzalez, principal agents for a covert government agency. Together they seek to unmask the perpetrator and decipher his plans before they can be consummated. Formerly homeless veterans become an adjunct to the church community and contribute many valuable insights. The investigation is interwoven with several successful and failed romances that affect the final outcome.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (Lord's Prayer Mystery Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

RADMAR, Inc. Publishing Group

The sudden death of a young woman attending Parkville United Methodist Church infuriates her brother and leads to congregational outrage over his outburst and subsequent murder. The investigation of that slaying by Pastor Arthur Blake and his associates leads to revelations of a previously undetected international criminal organization operating in the area. Unraveling the mystery and scope of this group entangle Arthur, his consulting investigator friends, plus local police and federal agents in a web of conspiracies extending from Illinois to both U.S. coasts and through Mexico to Guatemala. Severe family and interpersonal relationship problems are faced and resolved by members of the investigative team as they pursue the background and consequences of one quiet woman&rsquo;s efforts to change things happening around her.

Thy Will Be Done: The Lord's Prayer Mystery Series, Volume IV

RADMAR, Inc.

Arthur and Irma’s wedding day has finally arrived, but an unexpected interruption leads to their need to investigate a possible murder committed by someone close to them. With the aid of friends and federal agents Penny and Joe Gonzalez, they follow a series of clues, crisscrossing the United States to learn more about the murder, related subsequent events, and the significance of a rare object brought home by a veteran of the Iraq War. A second murder close to Pastor Arthur Blake’s church involves them in a new investigation, assisting Parkville Police Chief Bobby Andrews. Are these murders and the tracking of that strange object connected? Will marriage deteriorate or improve the relationship between Arthur and Irma? Character flaws in many relationships color the outcome.

Deliver Us from Evil: The Lord's Prayer Mystery Series, Volume V

Bishop Howard Chandler has assigned Pastor Arthur Blake to investigate the burning of a church in the small city of Amboy, Illinois. He learns from that church’s pastor that she had to overcome past improprieties by former members. During the investigation of the fire’s cause, Arthur and the other state fire investigators uncover disturbing aspects of the ninety-year-old church’s design and history. Arthur calls on his federal associates for assistance, as the investigation of a local church fire expands to seeking solutions to related crimes occurring from the present, to recent years, and back to the Prohibition Era. Progress in the investigation intertwines with new developments in Arthur’s family life.

Implications: An Arthur Blake Mystery

Several disturbing dreams cause Arthur Blake to wonder whether he is trying to do too much for the many people who seek his services. These qualms are complicated by Bishop Howard Chandler’s suggestion that Arthur temporarily set aside his official duties and take an extended sabbatical leave. His resulting internal debates about career moves are set aside when the pastor who replaced him at the Parkville church dies in an apparent suicide possibly linked to several deaths at the Parkville Rehabilitation Home. The bishop assigns Arthur to determine the circumstances behind the new pastor’s death, while Arthur and Irma, his wife and constant investigative partner, also study a mysterious shipment at his father’s antiques shop. The sudden disappearance of a young associate provides another mystery and leads to questions of life after death and reincarnation. Events that initially appear simple become increasingly complex as the true natures of many people come into question.

Impulses: An Arthur Blake Mystery Novel (Imp Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

When Debbie Danforth discovers a flaw in the genealogy of her live-in boyfriend, Jeremy Hadley, he and his family try to discredit her findings, but eventually admit they must be true. Jeremy and Debbie run a private detective business, the Sandley Agency and commit their skills and resources to learning about the impostor Debbie has discovered in the Hadley ancestry. They are assisted in this effort by Penny and Joe Gonzalez, principals in a covert federal agency, with whom Jeremy has previously worked as a consultant. Their joint investigation uncovers both unique details concerning the mysterious Hadley impostor and little-known facts about events leading up to World War II in both Britain and the United States. Was the person who masqueraded as a Hadley a villain or a hero? Did his actions assist or impede the British and the Americans as they faced the growing menace in Europe?

Impostor: A Genealogical Mystery (Imp Mysteries)

Impending: A Genealogical Mystery (Imp Mysteries)

How can a child who wouldn't have been born if his parents had a successful marriage work his way through the growing pains of childhood? What if he doesn't even know his parents are divorced? Can divorced parents, separated by long distances, equally love their child? Add to these questions the backgrounds of the Great Depression, World War II, and 1940s Boston to get a vivid memoir of childhood in the most difficult portion of the Twentieth Century.

After the Storm: A Child of Divorce in World War II Boston - Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

RADMAR

This ever-popular series has been completely updated with new prices to reflect recent market trends. The fully illustrated pocket guides make the world of antiques accessible to a wider audience than ever before. 
Each book provides a simple question-and-answer checklist for a broad range of representative items, telling readers what to look for and how to distinguish between the genuine article and a fake, an original, and a copy.

Miller's: Furniture: Antiques Checklist (Miller's Antiques Checklist)

Mitchell Beazley

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