Crackle Glass Too: 1950s-2000
ISBN: 9780764314049 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neither a particular style nor the product of one company, crackle glass has become one of the popular fields of twentieth century glass collecting. Crackling, a finish caused by dipping the hot piece of glass into cooling water, is the common feature that gives this type of glass its name. The majority of this glass was handblown by West Virginia glass companies such as Blenko, Pilgrim, Rainbow, Kanawha, and Bischoff. This volume shows thousands of crackle glass vases, pitchers, bowls, tumblers, and dishes grouped in more than 300 full color photos, with company histories, detailed captions,...
Neither a particular style nor the product of one company, crackle glass has become one of the popular fields of twentieth century glass collecting. C...
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201,97 zł |
Fenton Glass Compendium: 1940-1970
ISBN: 9780764314087 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Established in 1906, the Fenton Art Glass Company of Williamstown, West Virginia, has long produced glassware that fires collectors' passions. Over 900 color photographs capture the vases, pitchers, tidbit trays, candleholders, teacups, console bowls, and more, produced from 1940 to 1970. Many of these coveted items appear in print for the first time. Five years of research went into the text, providing a comprehensive listing of the art glass produced and the decorative motifs employed. Values are included in the captions.
Established in 1906, the Fenton Art Glass Company of Williamstown, West Virginia, has long produced glassware that fires collectors' passions. Over 90...
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Paden City Glassware
ISBN: 9780764314933 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paden City Glass Manufacturing Company, of Paden City, West Virginia, manufactured popular etched tableware in many colors between 1916 and 1951. Information about the company and its many products is documented, much of it for the first time, in this well-organized and beautifully illustrated book. The distinctive Paden City glass colors are individually identified and shown, and a glossary of glassmaking terms is included. Forty different patterns and etched decorations are described and illustrated. Sometimes decorations were added to glass made by other manufacturers to expand the Paden...
Paden City Glass Manufacturing Company, of Paden City, West Virginia, manufactured popular etched tableware in many colors between 1916 and 1951. Info...
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152,83 zł |
Purple Glass: 20th Century American & European
ISBN: 9780764315152 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Color is one of the most interesting qualities of glass, and many people collect according to color. Purple Glass is a sample of various collectible glassware made in the United States and Europe. Included are examples of Depression Era glass from American companies such as Tiffin, Fostoria, and Morgantown, to mid-century blown glass from Blenko; from Italian mid-century cased items to Scandinavian designer glass from Kosta, Orrefors, and Flygsfors. While focusing exclusively on purple glass, this book is also a survey of 20th century glass, because each design was also produced in other...
Color is one of the most interesting qualities of glass, and many people collect according to color. Purple Glass is a sample of various collectible g...
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Swankyswigs
ISBN: 9780764318443 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Swankyswigs" were introduced by Kraft(R) Foods in 1933. These fun and colorfully decorated glass tumblers held Kraft's cheese products. They were an immediate sales success and their popularity never ebbed. Today they are an avidly sought collectible. This new book chronicles the history of Swankyswigs and offers 230 color illustrations of nearly every style produced, from flowers to sailboats. Also included are several look-alikes . Descriptions and variation lists, and captions with vital information and the current value of the Swankyswigs in today's market make this an important book for...
"Swankyswigs" were introduced by Kraft(R) Foods in 1933. These fun and colorfully decorated glass tumblers held Kraft's cheese products. They were an ...
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54,55 zł |
L.G. Wright Glass
ISBN: 9780764318610 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 190 illustrations from original L.G. Wright Glass Company catalogs display thousands of glassware sold by this New Martinsville, West Virginia, marketing company from c. 1937 to 1999. Among their wide-ranging wares are Early American Pattern Glass goblets, animal covered dishes, Opalescent, Carnival, Cased, Custard, Moon & Star, and Art glass, pressed patterns, and novelties. They were made by many of the best American glass companies, such as Beaumont, Cambridge, Fenton Art Glass, Fostoria, Morgantown Glass, Viking and Westmoreland Glass. The text includes original pattern names, line...
Over 190 illustrations from original L.G. Wright Glass Company catalogs display thousands of glassware sold by this New Martinsville, West Virginia, m...
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152,83 zł |
Imperial Glass: Lace Edge: Lace Edge
ISBN: 9780764320279 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This long-awaited, carefully researched, and beautifully photographed guide to Imperial Glass Corporation's Lace Edge glassware explains their many variations and compares them to related pieces by Imperial as well as other manufacturers. Imperial's Lace Edge was produced from the early 1930s to the late 1970s and was sold as Crocheted Crystal through Sears, Roebuck and Company. Their other open edge glassware was sold by major retailers such as Montgomery Ward and Company, Butler Brothers, and items were given away in popular "coupon" campaigns through margarine companies. Over 325 beautiful...
This long-awaited, carefully researched, and beautifully photographed guide to Imperial Glass Corporation's Lace Edge glassware explains their many va...
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152,83 zł |
Mauzy's Comprehensive Handbook of Depression Glass Prices
ISBN: 9780764322112 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for hands-free shopping, this revised and expanded 7th edition is complete with 2005 pricing and reproduction information for more than 160 patterns of Depression glass, Fire-King, and 1940s and 1950s patterns, including some new discoveries. You will find accurate pricing, current reproduction information, and complete listings of all the pieces in all colors.
There is no other book on glassware from the 1920s-1950s that provides more comprehensive and beneficial information in such a compact, user-friendly format. Measurements for thousands of pieces are presented in quarter-inch... Designed for hands-free shopping, this revised and expanded 7th edition is complete with 2005 pricing and reproduction information for more than 160 p...
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54,55 zł |
Depression Glass Postcards
ISBN: 9780764322334 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty colorful images explore the wonderful range of Depression Glass in a variety of colors and patterns that are widely sought after by collectors. These beautiful perforated postcards are ready to be detached and mailed to friends and family, or to frame and hang in your home. At only $14.95, the cards cost less than 40 cents apiece. This is the perfect gift for any Depression Glass enthusiast.
Forty colorful images explore the wonderful range of Depression Glass in a variety of colors and patterns that are widely sought after by collectors. ...
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76,39 zł |
Mauzy's Depression Glass: A Photographic Reference with Prices
ISBN: 9780764322495 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no other single reference book in print that offers the vast scope of patterns identified, discussed, pictured, and priced in Mauzy's Depression Glass, 4th edition. It is the best identification and price guide for American and Canadian Depression glass, Fire-King, and fifties glassware and offers even more in this fourth edition: more measurements, more reproduction information, more pieces and patterns identified for the first time, and more current and accurate values. Hundreds of new, professionally executed photographs are presented with captions assisting in identifying...
There is no other single reference book in print that offers the vast scope of patterns identified, discussed, pictured, and priced in Mauzy's Depress...
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152,83 zł |
Depression Glass Dinnerware Accessories
ISBN: 9780764322860 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gracious table settings of the 1920s and '30s are a joy to behold. Coordinated glass dinnerware sets produced in the Depression era contained a wonderful assortment of specialized pieces, each serving a specific purpose for the family meal. Showcased here are centerpieces, candleholders, center-handled trays and bowls, tidbit servers, Serva-snack sets, relish dishes, candy dishes, cake plates, punch sets, and more. The informative text features an overview of each category, and captions provide specific descriptions, manufacturers, dates, measurements, and current values. Become familiar with...
Gracious table settings of the 1920s and '30s are a joy to behold. Coordinated glass dinnerware sets produced in the Depression era contained a wonder...
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65,47 zł |
A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Witch Balls, Containers and Toys, with Values from Vol. 3
ISBN: 9780887400834 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A book that will guide you when you are in the process of buying or appraising Sandwich glass is the most important tool you can own. This book is one of a series of guide books that describes every type of glass that was produced in Sandwich, Massachusetts. It uses the original plates of glass photos and the identification numbers form Volume 3 of The Glass Industry in Sandwich, a larger book by the same authors. (Volumes 3 and 4 are available, and Volumes 1 and 2 are in preparation.) This makes cross references much easier. In order to make this series of guides compact and light in weight,...
A book that will guide you when you are in the process of buying or appraising Sandwich glass is the most important tool you can own. This book is one...
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120,07 zł |
Paperweights
ISBN: 9780887403750 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old books on glass paperweights are shattered by this beautiful new presentation of previously unknown facts Hundreds of beautiful old and new paperweights are displayed in over 450 color photographs. This meticulously researched book presents a new historical view of French, Italian, Bohemian, Czechoslovakian, Scandinavian, British, and American examples and their talented makers. Millefiori, lampworked, overlay, Baccarat, Clichy, studio weights, and more are explained with documented facts which dispel some myths and give credit where it is due. With this book, the many collectors of...
Old books on glass paperweights are shattered by this beautiful new presentation of previously unknown facts Hundreds of beautiful old and new paperw...
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349,39 zł |
Fostoria Designer George Sakier
ISBN: 9780887408588 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fostoria was a most remarkable glassd company and George Sakier(1897-1988) was a most remarkable designer of Fostoria glass. For over fifty years, through the Great Depression, Sakier sent classic and modern designs to Moundsville, West Virginia, where millions of delightful glass objects were produced. They appear here in profusion. The book includes a throughly researched text about the man and his art(paintings, industrial designs and glass), as well as hundreds of brilliant color photographs of thousands of Fostoria glass items of many patterns and Sakier's fascinating oil painting...
Fostoria was a most remarkable glassd company and George Sakier(1897-1988) was a most remarkable designer of Fostoria glass. For over fifty years, thr...
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Fenton Basket Patterns: Innovation to Wisteria & Numbers
ISBN: 9780764322907 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1930s and up to the present, the Fenton Art Glass Company, of Williamstown, West Virginia, has produced beautiful glass baskets in a huge variety of styles, colors, and patterns. In these two new volumes, over 880 known varieties of Fenton baskets are each carefully described, with their individual ware numbers, color, size, decoration, date, and current value, and are individually shown in beautiful color photos. The patterns are presented alphabetically. This volume has the patterns from Innovation to Wisteria and the numbered patterns. Information on the talented glass workers...
Since the 1930s and up to the present, the Fenton Art Glass Company, of Williamstown, West Virginia, has produced beautiful glass baskets in a huge va...
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152,83 zł |
Milk Glass & Other Opaque Novelties
ISBN: 9780764322075 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The charm of milk glass has captured the hearts of thousands of collectors around the world. Though its name implies a milky whiteness, milk glass is now a term that encompasses opaque glass in a whole range of colors, from white to an almost solid black. This new book explores the world of milk glass in over 575 beautiful color photos. It contains items from the major manufacturers, ranging from hens on nests to miniature bank buildings and from plates to pigs, with examples of most of the colors and forms. Manufactured from the 19th to the late 20th century, they demonstrate the continuing...
The charm of milk glass has captured the hearts of thousands of collectors around the world. Though its name implies a milky whiteness, milk glass is ...
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Black Memorabilia for the Kitchen
ISBN: 9780764328817 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An avid group of loyal collectors, spanning generations and races, cant get enough of these rare and quirky antiques. Now in its fourth edition, this indispensable field guide provides many additional objects and completely updated values for a culinary tour of popular kitchen collectibles featuring black characterizations. The captions and text contain information about the sizes and approximate dating of the hundreds of pieces shown, and give tips on avoiding the fraudulent reproductions that increasingly plague the market. Items illustrated and documented include cookie jars, cups and...
An avid group of loyal collectors, spanning generations and races, cant get enough of these rare and quirky antiques. Now in its fourth edition, this ...
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87,31 zł |
The Glass Industry in Sandwich
ISBN: 9780887400810 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This truly beautiful book presents in text and color photos a factual account of the glass made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company during its sixty-three years of production. Each of the 417 photos is large enough to allow you to study the intricate details of glass construction so that you can determine if the glass you hold in your hand was definitely made in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Sandwich collectible in the United States. Keep in mind that the glass factories in Sandwich produced an average of 5,200,000 pieces of finished merchandise each year. Sandwich glass is still available...
This truly beautiful book presents in text and color photos a factual account of the glass made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company during its si...
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398,53 zł |
Laboratory Manual Of Glassblowing
ISBN: 9781603862622 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Materials And Apparatus - Varieties And Defects Of Glass - Devitrification - Annealing Glass - Blowpipe And Bellows - Light - Arrangement Of Exercises - General Operations - Cutting - Bending - Constricting And Flanging Tubing - Methods Of Rotation And Blowing - Elementary Exercises - Joining Two Pieces Of Tubing Of The Same Diameters - Blowing Bulbs - Advanced Exercises - Sealing A Tube Through Another Tube: The Gas Washing Tube - Suction Pump - And Kjeldahl Trap - Modified Methods And Special Operations - Capillary Tubing - Glass Rod - Mending Stopcocks - Closed Circuits Of Tubing - Spirals...
Materials And Apparatus - Varieties And Defects Of Glass - Devitrification - Annealing Glass - Blowpipe And Bellows - Light - Arrangement Of Exercises...
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43,56 zł |
Fenton Basket Patterns: Acanthus to Hummingbird
ISBN: 9780764322723 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1930s and up to the present, the Fenton Art Glass Company, of Williamstown, West Virginia, has produced beautiful glass baskets in a huge variety of styles, colors, and patterns. In these two new volumes, over 880 known varieties of Fenton baskets are each carefully described, with their individual ware numbers, color, size, decoration, date, and current value, and are individually shown in beautiful color photos. The patterns are presented alphabetically. This volume has the patterns from Acanthus to Hummingbird. A companion volume has the patterns Innovation to Wisteria and the...
Since the 1930s and up to the present, the Fenton Art Glass Company, of Williamstown, West Virginia, has produced beautiful glass baskets in a huge va...
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152,83 zł |