Handbook for American Brilliant Cut Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook for American Brilliant Cut Glass write by Bill Boggess. This book was released on 2001. Handbook for American Brilliant Cut Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This practical book provides guidance in identifying and evaluating American brilliant cut glass. It is organized by patterns and illustrated with 396 color and black and white photographs. Standard, Choice, Premium, and Rare quality pieces are identified throughout, and separate value ranges for each quality of every piece are provided. Tips for recognizing non-American cut glass are given and examples are shown. Separate indexes of pattern names and manufacturers provide quick references. This is the book you want at your fingertips when on the Internet and with you in the shops and auctions when you buy cut glass. It will help you find some good buys.
Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass
Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass write by Bill Boggess. This book was released on 2009-09-30. Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This invaluable guide is not only a basic reference, but an identification tool that can be taken to auctions, shows, exhibits, and antique shops. This revised sixth edition includes a newly updated value guide, the catalog names for various shapes in cut glass, and the identity of 280 patterns of American and Canadian glass by catalog name. Many patterns are identified for the first time. It points out 130 cut glass pieces by company signatures, patent records, and magazine advertisements. In addition, this revised edition shows you how to analyze a pattern by finding the miter outline and matching it and the motifs to an illustration or picture in a catalog or book. It gives practical advice for buying and collecting unidentified pieces and answers questions on acid polish, repairs, investments, insurance, upgrading, and selling a collection. Over 900 exquisite photographs were taken expressly for this book. No collector, dealer, or appraiser will want to be without it!
The American Cut Glass Industry
The American Cut Glass Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Cut Glass Industry write by Jane Shadel Spillman. This book was released on 1996. The American Cut Glass Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is to present new information about the late 19th & early 20th century cut glass industry in Corning, New York. The book focuses on T. G. Hawkes & Co because of the recent discovery of the latter's archival materials, 1880-1890.
Waterford Crystal - Irish Brilliance
Waterford Crystal - Irish Brilliance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waterford Crystal - Irish Brilliance write by Sharma Krauskopf. This book was released on 2011. Waterford Crystal - Irish Brilliance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Waterford Crystal - Irish Brilliance" is the story of world renowned lead crystal known as Waterford Crystal and a guide for collectors. The company gets its name from its home in Waterford Ireland. The book covers the company's history from 1783 until its bankruptcy in 2009 along with how the lead crystal is made. Included are most of the suites (patterns/designs) made in Ireland. It is the first complete collector's guide ever printed about the magnificent lead crystal pieces manufactured by Waterford Crystal. It features 101 suites along with detailed drawings that shows each ones distinct pattern, history of their names, date when the Suite was first released. Also illustrated by photographs are the specialty pieces such as trophies, paperweights, sculptures and many "one of a kind" pieces. Price estimates of selected pieces found at the time of the book's publication are included. The Appendix contains details such as names of stemware parts, individual cut names along with pictures of each cut and a Quick Identification Guide for the Suites. The author is best selling author Sharma Krauskopf who lives in Michigan USA. Sharma's vast knowledge about Ireland was gathered by many trips to the country and extensive research needed for her best selling book, Irish Lighthouses. She also is a collector of Waterford Crystal so the book is developed from collector's perspective.
Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass
Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass write by J. Michael Pearson. This book was released on 1978. Encyclopedia of American Cut and Engraved Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
