This is the most comprehensive guide to salt and pepper shaker series ever published. Never before have so many shaker series been pictured in one book. Shown in full color are more than 850 sets, making up more than 125 series. Included are well-known names such as Rosemeade, Ceramic Arts, Lefton, Enesco, and more. This will be an indispensable reference book for both beginning and longtime collectors who have always wondered which sets "belong" together. Measurements, manufacturers, countries, and current values are provided. If you have never had an interest in salt and pepper shakers before, this book will open your eyes to a wonderful collectible!

Collecting Salt & Pepper Shaker Series

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thornburg, Irene

Antiques & Collectibles

Schiffer Pub.

Firepower: History of the aircraft gun (Schiffer military history)

Vadnais, Scott

In business under a variety of names since the early nineteenth century, the George Wade pottery in Burslem, England, has produced many forms of ceramic items. Wade is perhaps best known, however, for their delightful series of tiny porcelain animals known as Whimsies. Highly collectible, the Whimsies have been joined over the years by many equally charming miniatures, some sold by the company directly and others distributed as premiums. With over 325 color photos clearly showing over 1000 items, this book showcases the endearing miniatures produced by Wade from the 1950s to the 1990s, including Red Rose Tea and Tom Smith premiums, Whoppas and Whimsie-land figurines, Nursery Favourites, Happy Families, Disney's Hat Box series, the diminutive Minikins, and many more. Also featured are Wade's highly detailed miniature villages--from England's Whimsey-on-Why to Ireland's Bally-Whim--original Wade boxes and displays, information on color and size variations, company marks, and values for all items. A treat for Wade lovers everywhere!, 372 color photos, 6" x 9", Price Guide/Index

Wade Miniatures: An Unauthorized Guide to Whimsies, Premiums, Villages & Characters (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Arts & Photography

Baker, Donna S.

Other Media

Profusely illustrated, some in color.

Yellow ware: The transitional ceramic

Leibowitz, Joan

Crafts & Hobbies

Indian Baskets

This handbook thoroughly explores the stunning diversity of North American Indian and Eskimo baskets. It includes less well-known native basketry in addition to the more common forms. This colorful book combines basket manufacture techniques, raw materials, forms, and decoration with information on native lifeways. More than 175 regional and tribal styles are documented in an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated format. Readers will be able to identify their own Indian baskets. The book's standardized terminology, identification keys, glossary, maps, and bibliographies add to its broad appeal. Hundreds of baskets were photographed for this volume in color and in black-and-white. Many are from the famous and unparallel collection of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University where the authors began their basketry research in the 1970's.

William A. Turnbaugh

Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh

The Museum of Appalachia story: The nationally acclaimed mountain village, farm, and museum, Norris, Tennessee

History

John Rice Irwin

Americas

This classic reference to popular plastic jewelry has been enlarged for this new edition. Over 1000 examples and an informative text tell the success story of plastic jewelry from the 1920s through the present, including natural (tortoiseshell and horn) and synthetic (celluloid, Bakelite, Lucite, and more) plastics in a variety of styles. Includes original designs of bracelets, pins, necklaces, buttons, buckles, and others. Current value ranges are included.

Plastic jewelry

Kelley, Lyngerda

Paperback, as pictured; very mild aging (crft)

American Manufactured Furniture

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.

Home Improvement & Design

Hard-cover book analyzing Shaker-designed and -built structures in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Ohio, Kentucky and other states.

Shaker Architecture

Schiffer, Herbert F.

Architecture

Out of print for a while, this classic reference work on antique ironware is available once again. Antique collectors, iron buffs, and industrial historians will welcome the opportunity to browse through its pages, which contain hundreds of photographs of fascinating items. Architectural hardware, lighting devices, and irons, tools, toys, weathervanes, fences and gates, and kitchen utensils are all presented, with examples taken from rarely-viewed private collections as well as major museums. Concise descriptions of each item pictured augment text that includes a great deal of historical and manufacturing information. You'll find details on the iron works at Saugus, Massachusetts; Batsto, New Jersey; Hopewell, Pennsylvania; and more. There's a discussion of the regional products of the South, Midwest, and Northeast of the United States, along with plenty of information on influences from England and Europe.

Antique iron: Survey of American and English forms, fifteenth through nineteenth centuries

Herbert F Schiffer

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