Miller's Collecting Furniture: the Facts at Your Fingertips Paperback
by Christopher Payne
Paperback
Description
These best-selling guides to popular collecting subjects combine historical background with practical advice for the collector by focusing on items that are available and affordable.
They also look at identifying and dating pieces, assessing condition, and recognizing maker's marks.
Each item is given a dollar price range while Fact Boxes highlight key collecting areas.
Antique furniture can be surprisingly affordable. In this handbook, BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Christopher Payne explores the main areas of furniture, showing how to recognize quality, periods, and types of wood.
All the major forms of furniture -- including tables, seating, mirrors, and screens -- are explored and each item is accompanied by a dollar price range.
Lita Solis Cohen is Senior Editor of the Maine Antiques Digest.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Mitchell Beazley
- Publication Date:16/09/1996
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- ISBN:9781857328776
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Mitchell Beazley
- Publication Date:16/09/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9781857328776