Antiques & Collectibles | Schiffer Publishing

$45.00

This is the first and a most comprehensive work on wooden butter shapers, a subject of interest to many folk art authorities and collectors. While working as a Specialist in History for the Museum of Michigan State University, the author,...

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This comprehensive work will be appreciated by amateur and professional collectors as a long awaited composite guide to card photographs spanning nearly a century of examples dating from salt prints to picture postcards. The over three hundred illustrations are accompanied...

$79.95

A complete guide to the art and design of collectible perfume bottles. During the past one hundred years, thousands of trademarked fragrances have competed in the marketplace. Here are over 1000 examples, most of which have not appeared in previous...

$79.95

This is the most informative book available for the collector of buttons, written by a second-generation collector who has traveled the world over to expand her knowledge of this exciting collectible. The book presents over 10,000 buttons of all imaginable...

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Sometimes referred to as a Navajo folk art, these representations of recognizable objects occasionally have been designed into Navajo weavings at least since the middle of the nineteenth century. Unlike the geometric designs of more traditional Navajo rugs, these delightful...

$29.95

The cowboy is a mythic figure in American life. From his emergence in the west in the late 1800s, he has caught the imagination of young and old alike. His adventures have been the stuff of countless stories, in print...

$69.95

Over 400 color photos of American scrimshaw (whale tooth carving) folk art pieces and a fascinating text relate the hard daily life of the 19th-century sailor (scrimshander) aboard whaling ships. Intricate, painstaking, sturdy yet incredibly delicate... scrimshaw has been a...

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Miniature oil and kerosene lamps, some as diminutive as 2 1/2 inches high, are direct descendants of prehistoric lamps using animal fat and other oils. Since the miniatures which have been preserved are so small that they cannot have provided...

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While collecting small animal figures has been a popular hobby for some years, information about them has been scanty. Mike Schneider explores this popular collectibles field in depth. Included are figures produced by such well know firms as Frankoma and...

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Old books on glass paperweights are shattered by this beautiful new presentation of previously unknown facts! Hundreds of beautiful old and new paperweights are displayed in over 450 color photographs. This meticulously researched book presents a new historical view of...

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First published in 1968, this classic work remains the basic reference book for collectors and fanciers of American spoons. Now offered in a new edition, it will be a welcome resource in your library. Spoons themselves originated in prehistoric times,...

$19.95

The carved bird decoy is the only truly American folk art - for the decoy as an aid to hunting was devised by the American Indians and has grown as a useful art since the days of the colonists. Decoy-carving...

$19.95

The application of make-up for women was made more convenient in the 1920s with the popularization of small container known as a "compact". Inside, pressed (compacted) face powder was housed with a cloth of feather "puff" applicator and a mirror...

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The Grindley Artware Manufacturing Company made figural pottery in Sebring, Ohio, from 1933 until 1952. With 160 color photographs Mike Schneider guides the reader along the exciting paths of the Grindley menagerie of dogs, cats, horses and many other animals....

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Over 250 photos of early folk art pieces tell the history of the folk art movement from the early 20th century, and the founding of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. Folk Art in America is the...

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This volume studies, in chronological order, three types of large clocks-wall, cabinet and freestanding, with particular attention to clocks from France, England, Holland, Scandinavia and the German-speaking countries. The emphasis is on French clocks due to recent great interest in...

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Perfume atomizers are avidly collected today. In this exquisite, color-illustrated new book, hundreds of atomizers are displayed and identified. A well-documented text, descriptive captions and over 400 color photographs demonstrate the diverse and beautiful variety of bottles and dispensers which...

$39.95

Among the most beautifully executed and highly collectible advertising art is that related to firearms and fishing tackle. Companies like Winchester, Remington, Colt, Dupont, Marlin, Bristol and many others took great care and went to great expense to promote their...

$29.95

More than 1,000 examples of unique and highly sought-after gas station collectibles with a complete invaluable price guide. With the advent of the automobile and the central place it took in society, service stations became one of the dominant businesses...

$24.95

Though text and over 250 color photographs, a history of the design of the telephone is presented from art deco years to novelty phones of the 1980s. Once the upright "candlestick" telephone was replaced by a desk set "cradle" telephone,...

$69.95

This tremendously informative book is the most complete source for collectible plastic toys. Over 850 vivid color photographs display plastic toys-from cars, trucks, and airplanes to dolls and dollhouse furniture-supplemented by manufacturers' diagrams and molders' marks. Industry development from the...

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Acoma, the sky city of New Mexico, is presented here by an enchanting text and beautiful color photographs in this revised edition of the Southwest classic book. Occupied by the Acoma Indians, Acoma mesa pueblo is located 65 miles west...

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The fascinating world of hunting related collectibles presented in an informative text of fifteen chapters and over 400 color photographs of carefully chosen examples. It is at once clear why this is such an exciting field of collecting interest throughout...

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Color photos and text present Roycroft Art Metal's copper vases, bookends, trays and more--including many rarely-seen items. As the founding of the Roycroft art community in New York State reached its one hundredth anniversary, collector interest in the Arts &...