Miller's Collecting Furniture : The Facts at Your Fingertips (Miller's Antiques Checklist)

By Christopher C. Payne

This guide contains all the essential information needed by a budding furniture collector, showing how to identify styles as well as individual pieces, how to avoid fakes and how to spot a bargain. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840000538
• ISBN13: 9781840000535
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Millers
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

More than just a price book

This book is more than just a price book. It uses a series of questions to help you nail down just what you are looking at. In the BASICS section, you find the different types of inlays as Line inlay, Marquetry, Parquetry, and Oyster-veneering. The book is small enough that I carry this with me. Some of the highlights are: Uses a unique question-and-answer approach to help you identify and date genuine antique furniture. Deals with fakes, copies, conditions, and other factors that may confuse even experienced collectors. A-n-a-l-y-s-e-s: typical items that collectors can find in shops and auction houses give Guidelines for values. Contains a wealth of background information, including an extensive glossary. It is a thorough introductory course for the beginner and also a superb refresher for those with some collecting experience.