During America's darkest economic period, Depression Glass, with its hundreds of patterns and wide variety of colors, became part of the marketing machine for everything from consumer goods to bank accounts. Its popularity helped stimulate consumer demand for household goods and boosted the nation's emergence from the Great Depression. This handy ...
Since the first edition was released in 1972, "Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glassware" has been America's #1 bestselling book on the subject. Dealing primarily with the glass made from the 1920s through the end of the 1930s, this complete reference to the collectible patterns of Depression glass includes updated values, accurate prices, ...
This popular guide has been completely revised with over 4,000 values updatedto reflect the ever-changing market. Gorgeous photos show detail and listingsof patterns and their available pieces make identification simple.
With a convenient portable size and 500 full-color photographs, this handbookfor collectors features shape and pattern guides and pattern and manufacturerindexes.
The Florences have compiled this second volume to once again help identify the candlestick patterns made from the Depression era to modern day. With no repeated shots from the authors' first volume, more than 500 different candlesticks are shown in full color, dozens never before seen in any other book. For simplicity of use this book is arranged ...
Once an inexpensive gift often given away, Depression Glass is one of today's most sought after collectibles. This essential guide gives collectors current market values for 5,000 items that often carry sentimental, as well as financial value. This comprehensive guide delivers double the photos as previous editions, and the most specific ...
Our Very Rare Glassware of the Depression Years books have been bestsellers for many years, helping collectors spot those rare and valuable pieces of Depression glass that may come around once in a lifetime. Rarity can be determined by an unusual color or pattern; many pieces here are one of a kind or can be found only in limited quantities. Gene ...
Designed for hands-free shopping, this revised and expanded 9th edition is complete with 2009 pricing and reproduction information for more than 160 patterns of Depression glass, Fire-King, and 1940s and 1950s patterns, including new discoveries. No other book on glassware of the 1920s-1950s provides more comprehensive and beneficial information ...
This is the perfect starter book for any would-be collector - a gentle and humorous introduction to the hobby starting with the origins of the glass, leading them through garage sales and auctions, and on to a more extensive knowledge of specific colors, patterns, pieces, and prominent companies.
More than 45 manufacturers are represented including: Westmoreland, Sneath, Paden City, Cambridge, McKee, Jeannette, Hocking, Hazel-Atlas, and Federal. Almost 100 different kinds of kitchen glassware featured including: canisters, dispensers, cruets, refrigerator dishes, and rolling pins. Over 500 clear photos, arranged by color, manufacturing ...
Depression Glass is one of today's most popular collectibles. With over 300 color photos, this history of the colorful glassware includes comprehensive descriptions of specific pieces along with information on how to collect and display Depression Glass, as well as updated values. Chapters highlight premium giveaways, popular children's sets, ...
Two books in one by a pair of America's antiques experts, this new edition of the popular guide lists current prices on more than 6,000 pieces. 400+ photographs and drawings. 16-page color photo insert.
"This book is the first volume of a series designed to provide a comprehensive overview, in color, of American glass from the 1920s and 1930s"-- Introduction.
This beautifully illustrated and significantly updated reference work demonstrates hundreds of elegant American glass forms in a wide spectrum of colors, shapes, and etchings of over 100 different patterns, made by preeminent manufacturers, including Cambridge, Heisey, Imperial, Paden City, Morgantown, and New Martinsville. Full lines of ...
Over 200 beautiful photos illustrate the brilliance of pink Depression Era glass from such firms as Bartlett-Collins, Cambridge, Federal, Fostoria, Hazel-Atlas, Imperial, Westmoreland, and others. With examples of 45 different patterns, it remains an indispensable guide for all who collect Depression Era glass and enjoy the beauty of pink ...
Classification and identification of Depression Glass and other collectible glassware by the prominent design in the pattern. Patterns from the 1920s through the 1970s are grouped into twenty-one overall design categories, including animals, circles or rings, diamonds, floral, fruit, geometric, and more. Within each category, the associated ...
A two-in-one pricing guide to over 165 Depression-era glass patterns, and dinnerware from the 1920s to the 1980s. Accompanied by photographs, factory histories, and bibliographies.
A two-in-one pricing guide to over 165 Depression-era glass patterns, and dinnerware from the 1920s to the 1980s. Accompanied by photographs, factory histories, and bibliographies.
Over 4,000 values have been updated in the sixteenth edition of Pocket Guide to Depression Glass & More, representing the ever-changing market. Many of the photographs have been replaced to add new finds and showcase other available items. The more than 200 color photographs and the listings of the patterns make identification simple. Once again, ...
This second edition, featuring 15 additional patterns and 100 more photographs than the first edition, contains more than 10,000 values for 155 of the most popular Depression glass patterns. There is also a quick identification guide for pattern styles and 400 colour photographs.
Once regarded as an inexpensive giveaway, Depression glass is steadily gaining in popularity and value. With the help of this guide, collectors, and traders will confidently identify specific patterns and learn current market prices.
Barbara and Jim Mauzy are known for user-friendly books that deliver the history, identification information, and values in a format that makes them necessary tools if you are buying, selling, or maintaining a collection. This sixth edition of Mauzys Depression Glass, the worlds most used and authoritative book on Depression Glass from the United ...
There is no other single reference book in print that offers the vast scope of patterns identified, discussed, pictured, and priced as this one, now in it' 5th edition. It is the best identification and price guide for American and Canadian Depression glass, Fire-King, and fifties glassware. The 5th edition offers more measurements, more ...
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