Features a unique look into the history of Franciscan dinnerware, with full-color digitally captured images of more than 400 patterns. Thorough detail on Franciscan favorites such as Apple, Desert Rose, and Ivy. Comprehensive sections on Handpainted, Earthenware, and Fine China dinnerware, including a brief history with interesting information about each pattern. Includes segments on Franciscan Crystal, Flatware, Collectibles and Giftware.

Franciscan: An American Dinnerware Tradition, With Price Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bob Page

Dean Six

Dale Frederiksen

Jamie Robinson

Antiques & Collectibles

Page/Frederiksen Publications

Representing five years of research culminating in a book of over 500 pages with information on more than 5,000 Haviland dinnerware patterns, Haviland - A Pattern Identification Guide is the most comprehensive book on the topic ever undertaken. Each pattern is shown in full color with short informational text about the history of the shape or blank. There is a brief history of the Haviland companies, an easy to use visual index, a complete numeric and textual index, and supplemental color images of product and historic literature. Also included is a separate price guide to complement the patterns featured in this publication.

Haviland: A Pattern Identification Guide, With Price Guide

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Replacements, Limited

There has never been an effort to take a broad, comprehensive look at West Virginia s rich heritage of glass production. All that changes with the publication by Quarrier Press of the 20 plus years in the making WEST VIRGINIA GLASS TOWNS. At nearly 200 pages and filled with hundreds of images this is the first ever look at the expansive glass industry in the state. Over 450 companies and locations have produced hot glass since the first glass was produced in Wellsburg in the second decade of the 19th century. West Virginia Glass Towns provides a town by town list of the glass producing communities giving dates, product lines and then offers a plethora of photos of glass factories, glass workers, maps, advertisements and much more. The book is a richly textured history using period images to tell the story of what has been a significant industry in the state, an industry that employed tens of thousands of men and women over the nearly two centuries of activity. The books spans communities from Alum Bridge to Williamstown with significant chapters on know glass communities like Clarksburg, Fairmont, Huntington, Morgantown, Wellsburg, Weston and Wheeling. Also addressed are the numerous factories and glass producers in lesser recognized glass towns such as Cameron, Dunbar, Grafton, Mannington, Parkersburg, Pennsboro and Star City to name but a few. Fifty-two communities, from larger cities to small towns, are included in the historic and long needed survey of the mountain state glass industry. A brief introductory essay by author Dean Six explains why glass as an industry was prolific in West Virginia and addresses the numbers of factories during the period of phenomenal growth in the early 20th century. Factories in the state produced flat or window glass, bottles and fruit jars, tableware, glass novelties and a wide range of other glass products, spanning almost the entire spectrum of products made in glass. Factories along the Ohio River began decades before the American Civil War and as of early 2012 there remain 16 hot glass producers active in West Virginia. Many of these are small studio factories producing art glass and one of a kind objects. This monumental document is the first ever look at the diverse, long lived and major employer in the state.

West Virginia Glass Towns

Quarrier Press]

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