Art Glass: Identification & Price Guide
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Book Description
Daring designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Ren Lalique are remembered for their intricate pattern creations with glass that pushed the evolution of design. These entrancingly beautiful masterpieces of yesterday are commanding high prices in today's antiques and collectibles marketplace.
Author John Shuman III gives art glass collectors the helpful advice they need from bidding techniques at auctions and detecting fakes and frauds, to protecting valuables. With the aid of this identification and price guide they'll obtain a collection they can be proud to display. Valuable information and current market prices are included for Baccarat, Custard Glass, Durand Art Glass, Fairy Lamps, Kimball Glass, Lalique, Loetz, Tiffany, and much more.
Readers will confidently identify collectible pieces with the more than 300 color images, illustrations, and vintage advertisements. They'll peruse original advertisements from sale catalogues and marvel at the progression of some of the most highly sought after art glass pieces from popular manufacturers. * Author John Shuman, III shares valuable tips and techniques on securing unbeatable deals * Identifies and values hundreds of popular art glass pieces * Vintage ads display original prices
About the Author
John A. Shuman is an avid buyer and seller of antique collectibles. He enjoys attending flea markets and shows and takes great pleasure in traveling and researching assorted antiques. John has written over 1,000 articles for Collector News, The New York Antique Almanac, The Antique Trader? Weekly, Antiques Journal, The Antique Trader Price Guide to Antiques, and many more. He is author of Warman's Native American Collectibles: A Price Guide & Historical Reference, published in 1998 by Krause Publications. He currently resides in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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