Antique Steins

Antique Steins: A Collectors' Guide

The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios: Tabletop Radios, 1933-1959

Machine Age to Jet Age, Vol. 1, America’s No.1 vintage radio identification and price guide has been revamped and renamed The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios. Includes over 1,400 pictures of more than 2,500 vintage tabletop radios. Images have been digitally enhanced, listings expanded & reformatted.Icons now indicate Canadian radios, Ingraham cabinets, World’s Fair models and noteworthy industrial designers. Also, newly added are tube and band counts, options, variations and their current values. An exciting reason to purchase this new edition is that we’ve now added a comprehensive cross-reference of all radios pictured in the 3-volume Tabletop series! This INDEX is comprised of over 9,000 listings sorted by brand. Radios are referenced and cross-referenced by model number and model name. Each listing also includes description of variation_ cabinet material, color, finish, tube count, etc. All radios have revised 2002/3 market values as well as the series volume number noting where in the series each radio is pictured and fully described. You’ll wonder what you ever did without it!

Lea Stein Jewelry (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

In the world of costume jewelry, the name Lea Stein Paris is recognized as the most notable and innovative designer of plastic jewelry of the 20th century. Her use of sculptured laminated celluloid in many novel combinations of textures, colors, and designs resulted in her whimsical and colorful world of original animals, people, and geometric delights. Here you will find bracelets, pins, necklaces, combs, picture frames, boxes, buttons, and accessories in many shapes that amuse and fascinate. Foxes poised to secure their prey and running children are some of her best known designs. Beautiful color pictures and captions identify the pieces, dates, and value ranges. This book is a lasting reference for fans and collectors.

Character Steins: A Collector's Guide

This comprehensive book provides a finely illustrated guide to the field of character stein collecting. This book thoroughly examines every type of character stein and devotes individual chapters of each type. There are over 500 illustrations, many in full color! Descriptions and information about the manufacturers and their marks are included. This is a reference no stein collector can be without! In addition to the catalog of character steins, there are descriptive chapters on Beer Stein Ceramics, The Hexagram as the Brewer's Symbol, A Light at the End of the Stein-Lithophanes, Stein-related Items, plus a history of character steins, information on new steins, copies of old, original catalog pages, and much more. Definitely a MUST for all stein collectors!

The Beer Stein Book: Illustrated Catalog, Current Prices, Collector'

Machine Age to Jet Age, Vol. 2: Radiomania's Guide to Tabletop Rad

Machine Age to Jet Age is a continuing series which documents, pictures and provides market values for collectible vintage radios. Each volume is a supplement/companion to the others in the series, with all different items in each. Radios are individually pictured, described and valued, and are organized by manufacturer and model number. This series has become the most widely used and referenced resource of its type in the vintage radio collecting hobby. There are currently two volumes available with Volume 3 to be available in September, 1999. Volume Two of the series covers the period 1930-1959 and individually pictures, describes and values over 2,700 tabletop radios. The years 1930-1932 have been added to the scope of the series so as to encompass cathedral type radios which dominated during these years. Volume Two also includes over 190 color plates with sections on different varieties of cabinets (i.e., catalin, bakelite, plaskon, beetle, chrome grilles, etc.). In addition, the narrative provides useful information about collecting on the internet, categorizing and valuing vintage radios, clubs and events, and many hobbyist resources. 8.5" X 11" format. 368 pages.

Vintage Anheuser-Busch: An Unauthorized Collector's Guide (A Schiff

If you have an affinity for beer in general and for Budweiser in particular, then rest assured, "This Book's for You!" As beer-lovers well know, Budweiser is the world-renowned brand that has been brewed and distributed by Anheuser-Busch for more than a hundred years. Its popularity is no less strong today than when it was first introduced in the late nineteenth century. It's no wonder that Budweiser memorabilia and collectibles are among those most favored and sought after by breweriana lovers today. Vintage Anheuser-Buschr celebrates the early years of this prolific and highly successful company, one which grew from a small St. Louis partnership into the prevailing leader of the brewing industry today. Over 400 beautiful color photos trace Anheuser-Busch's colorful advertising from the late 1800s through the mid-twentieth century, as depicted on lithographed prints, signs, trays, calendars, mugs, coasters, corkscrews, matchsafes, jewelry, and more. In addition to Budweiser, you'll find a host of items featuring other products from Anheuser-Busch, such as St. Louis Lager, Faust, Malt-Nutrine, Bevo, and Ginger Ale. Many of the items shown date from the company's earliest beginnings and have rarely been seen. Current values for all are included in the captions. This book is a nostalgic treat for beer-lovers everywhere, so pour yourself a cold one, sit back, and drink-er, read up!

Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector (A Nancy Richardson Book)

Art Collectors Memoirs

Collectors' Information Bureau's Collectibles Market Guide and

The Collector's Guide to 20th Century Modern Clocks: Desk, Shelf an

The first reference/price guide to focus exclusively on 20th Century Modern American clocks. Over 2,300 clocks (including manual, electric, alarm, chime, novelty) are catalogued with more than 1,600 pictures. The book encompasses early industrial, machine age, moderne, art deco, streamline and mid-century modern design styles. Also included are desk, shelf and decorative weather guides (barometers, hygrometers, thermometers), radio timers/switches, kitchen timers, hybrids and related devices. Each listing includes the brand, maker, year, model name and/or number, industrial designer where known, movement type and options, cabinet materials, dimensions and variations. Also included is a comprehensive index with current market values for each model and all variations. Other valuable resources included are a Historical index of brands and manufacturers, guidelines for fine-tuning values and basic repairs and resources. Included are clock brands such as Artcraft, Aldine, Bugle Boy, Comet, Deluxe, General Electric, Gilbert, Hamilton Sangamo, Hammond, Herman Miller, Ingersol, Ingraham, Jefferson, Lackner, Lawson, Lux, Manning-Bowman, Mastercrafters, New Haven, Old Reliable, National Call, Pennwood/Numechron, Sessions, Seth Thomas, Telechron, Waltham, Waterbury, Westclox, (weather meters including Airguide, Taylor, Jason, Swift & Anderson) and many more. The second volume of this series is due out by the end of 2002. That book will encompass American mantle, wall, floor, novelty and kitchen clocks of the same period and in a similar fashion.