Collector Bookstore
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Leavenworth, KS 66048
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won’t receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
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Fireworks: New England Art Pottery by: Paul A. Royka
ISBN:
0887409881
Book Title:
Fireworks New England Art Pottery of the Arts & Crafts Movement – With Value Guide
Author:
Paul A. Royka
Binding:
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright:
1997
Pages:
192
Size:
8.5 x 11 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
American art pottery is one of the most dynamic collecting fields, with prices soaring up to $200,000 for one piece. Paul A. Royka examines New England art pottery made from 1872 to 1928. Sold through auctions and galleries and found in attics and homes throughout the United States, the pieces illustrated here have a combined value of over one million dollars.
The most comprehensive work of its kind, Fireworks examines the origins of the Arts and Crafts Movement and the influences manufacturing companies had on it. It provides help in identifying marks, evaluating, and pricing the works of Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Dedham, Low, Grueby, Hampshire, Crook, Merrimac, Walley, Marblehead, Saturday Evening Girls, and Dorchester Pottery. A beautiful book with more than 450 color photographs, it is a must for the pottery collector and a wonderful gift for any art lover.
Here are a few of the companies covered:
Chelsea
Dedham
J & J.G. Low Art Tile Works
Grueby
Hampshire
Russell G. Cook
Merrimac
Walley
Marblehead
Paul Revere
Dorchester
450 color photos
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