The Official® Price Guide to American Arts & Crafts is the one-volume encyclopedia to help you identify and evaluate your entire Arts & Crafts collection. Written by David Rago and Bruce Johnson, two of the most respected experts in the Arts & Crafts field, this indispensable book is packed with:• Period names like Gustav Stickley, Limbert, George Ohr, Grueby, Fulper, Rookwood, Dirk Van Erp, Roycroft, Gustave Baumann, and many, many more.• Detailed descriptions, price listings, and brief histories of every kind of object, artist, and major manufacturer of furniture, pottery, metalware, lighting, textiles, and color woodblock prints.• Crucial information on how to easily identify and date hundreds of Arts & Crafts pieces.• Insider tips on how to buy, sell, and care for your collection as well as how to detect reproductions and clever fakes• Hundreds of photographs and manufacturers' shop marks.

The Official Identification and Price Guide to American Arts and Crafts, 3rd Edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Johnson, Bruce E.

Rago, David

Antiques & Collectibles

House of Collectibles

Collectors and aspiring collectors will find everything they need to know about confidently collecting Weller pottery in a richly illustrated reference that is part history, part identification and price guide, and part how-to guide for caring for collectibles. Original.

Warman's Weller Pottery: Identification and Price Guide

Rago, Denise

Krause Pubns Inc

With over 250 fine color photographs, the studios, artists and techniques, from 1876 on, are illustrated and evaluated.

American Art Pottery

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Knickerbocker Pr

Collecting Modern: A Guide to Midcentury Studio Furniture and Ceramics

Sollo, John

History

Gibbs-Smith

Focusing on the three main areas of Arts &amp; Crafts-art pottery, wrought metal, and period lighting-this field-guide-style book is strikingly illustrated with vibrant photos that show the key concepts every antique collector, dealer, or hobbyist needs to know. Packed with savvy advice, this insider's guide offers the tools to discern worthwhile, precious, beautiful antique pieces from a mass of imperfect or damaged ones. Rago's newest book helps the novice and the experienced collector discern what is worth buying and what will hold or increase in value, plus how to get the most enjoyment out of every piece. Filled with Rago's expert opinions about American Arts &amp; Crafts objects and furniture, a list of the ten books that should be in any serious library on the subject, and helpful tips on collecting, the Arts &amp; Crafts Collector's Guide is a must-have for any connoisseur of the period. David Rago oversees three auction companies and two quarterly magazines, each specializing in a particular area of twentieth-century decorative arts and furnishings. He lectures nationally and is an expert decorative ceramics and porcelain appraiser for the hit PBS series The Antiques RoadShow. He is the coauthor of Miller's American Art Pottery: Treasure or Not? and Collecting Modern. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. Suzanne Sliker has worked at the Mission Oak Shop and Aurora Studios in Putnam, Connecticut, for nearly ten years. She specializes in furniture, lighting, and textiles of the Arts and Crafts period. David Rudd has been a decorative arts dealer and has operated Dalton's American Decorative Arts for over twenty-one years. He specializes in decorative arts of the twentieth century with an emphasis on Stickley mission oak furniture. Rudd is currently an independent appraiser in New Jersey, contributing writer to the American Bungalow, and president of the board of directors of the Central New York Arts &amp; Crafts Society.

Arts & Crafts Collector's Guide, The

A veritable master class in appraising art pottery, this authoritative guide includes an introduction to the subject, covering such topics as buying and selling, care and security, materials, decorations, periods, and styles. All the key studios of American art pottery are featured including Paul Revere, Rookwood, Grueby Faience, Dedham, Volkmar, and Taco. A directory of specialists, galleries, and museums, and a glossary of useful terms make this an invaluable resource for collectors.

Miller's Treasure or Not?: How to Compare & Value American Art Pottery

Perrault, Suzanne

Miller/Mitchell Beazley

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