Kovels' Know Your Antiques

Kovels' Know Your Antiques
Author: Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 813
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781569562727

The advice you need from the source you know -- the Kovels. For every collector who wants to know how to evaluate, purchase, and care for antiques and collectibles, this revised and updated edition of Kovels' Know Your Antiques will be a valuable companion. With more than 300 photographs and line drawings, a clear, concise text, and extensive up-to-date bibliographies, this book will help you determine if there is anything of value in the inherited belongings of Aunt May, or whether that zealously guarded Stradivarius violin is genuine or fake. Kovels' Know Your Antiques covers everything from pottery, silver, and glass to furniture, prints, and rugs. The Kovels show how a tape measure and magnet can help prove the age of antique furniture, how to test for old silver with a fingernail, how to date cut glass and porcelain by their marks, and much more. This book also contains a list of current price guides, publications, and collector clubs that provide additional help and information. With Kovels' Know Your Antiques, you will learn how to buy almost any antique with a shrewd eye toward present and future value.

Kovel's Know Your Collectibles

Kovel's Know Your Collectibles
Author: Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1981
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780517536087

The comprehensive guide to antiques of the future by America's foremost experts in the field.

Know Your Antiques

Know Your Antiques
Author: Crown
Publisher: Random House Reference
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1982-05-12
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780517097144

Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2023

Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2023
Author: Terry Kovel
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780762481743

The 2023 Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide is the most complete and best-illustrated price guide available -- with 12,500 listings and more than 2,500 full-color photographs -- from the most trusted name in the industry. The Kovels are the most trusted source for both the casual and expert collector. With 12,500 actual prices and 2,500 full-color photographs, the guide also features exceptionally well-organized, wide-ranging, and up-to-the-minute information, and includes more tips, marks, logos, and photographs than any other competitive title. Kovels' is the only guide with prices based on actual sales from the previous calendar year, never estimates. Unlike other guides, which focus almost exclusively on English or high-priced items, Kovels' covers all American and international items and includes reasonably-priced goods. The book is organized by categories most sought-after by collectors, including depression glass, dolls, jewelry, furniture, porcelain, and sports memorabilia. Indexes, cross-references, and expert commentary throughout empower readers to collect with confidence and price their own antiques.

Kovel's Guide to Selling, Buying, and Fixing Your Antiques and Collectibles

Kovel's Guide to Selling, Buying, and Fixing Your Antiques and Collectibles
Author: Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780517883136

The hard-to-find information, sources, and addresses that collectors need for repairing, caring for, and finding buyers for antiques and collectibles are all in this book. To gather the information for this book, Ralph and Terry Kovel contacted more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and other industry sources around the country, making this the most up-to-date and complete reference of its kind.

Picker's Bible

Picker's Bible
Author: Joe Willard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440231788

The Science of Scrounging Whether readers are dumpster divers, estate sale addicts or modern archaeologists, this easy-to-use and informative guide to "picking" is guaranteed to improve their antiquing skills. The Picker's Bible provides great tips on where and how to find antiques for the best price. A fun and quick read, the book explains the ins and outs of negotiating price, things to avoid, secrets to success, and how to do it all better than the other guy. There is hidden treasure out there...Picker's Bible will help you find it!

Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks

Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks
Author: Ralph M. Kovel
Publisher: Random House Reference
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1986
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

You may be the owner of a valuable piece of porcelain or pottery, but the cryptic symbol on the underside of the piece may be your only clue to its value. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: 1850 to the Present will help you identify your pieces. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks provides the quickest and easiest way for professional and amateur collectors to identify more than 3,500 American, European, and Oriental marks. The perfect companion to the Kovels' original best-seller, Kovels' Dictionary of Marks -- Pottery and Porcelain: 1650 to 1850 (still in print after more than 42 years and 41 printings), Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks is the most comprehensive reference for nineteenth- and twentieth-century marks. Together, the two volumes are an indispensable guide to porcelain and pottery marks of the last four centuries. Also available from Three Rivers Press, Kovels' Dictionary of Marks--Pottery & Porcelain: 1650 to 1850