World travelers can find glass bells in many countries, making them fun to search for and recall their adventures. Over 400 bells are shown in hund...

This invaluable guide is not only a basic reference, but an identification tool that can be taken to auctions, shows, exhibits, and antique shops. ...

Open this book to find 3,200 glittering jewelry items distributed by Avon Products, Inc. from 1965 to 2006. It is an almost complete record of the ...

The most popular die cast toys in the world, Matchbox metal vehicles took on a new look in 1969 with the introduction of the Superfast line, and th...

Over 580 beautiful color photos display a stunning array of contemporary handmade and design marbles by a variety of talented artists, along with h...

More than 500 color photos display marbles of all types in this informative, highly popular, revised guide. Most of these photos, over 400, are new...

Designed for hands-free shopping, this revised and expanded 10th edition is complete with 2012 pricing and reproduction information for 169 pattern...

Barbara and Jim Mauzy are known for user-friendly books that deliver the history, identification information, and values in a format that makes the...

This colorful book provides a sweeping overview of the modern tableware designs introduced by leading pottery firms from the 1940s through the 1960...

Here's a big second serving for sassafras softdrink lovers. Ever since Tom Morrison's first beverage book, Root Beer Advertising and Collectibles, ...

What better memento from a sojourn to France than a sweet piece of French fai**ence from the town of Quimper? Produced for over 300 years by severa...

This eye-appealing book presents a sweeping survey of much sought after designs from Finnish and Swedish glass-making communities throughout the tw...

This book and its companion volume are the first in English to survey the entire range of Scandinavian glass companies and designers. Their beautif...

Among today's favorite glass collectibles are the decorative containers that once held sour cream. From the late 1940s through the early 1990s sour...

"The eyes have it," in this colorful selection of outrageously whimsical eyeglass stylings from the fabulous 1950s and hip 1960s! Whether dotted wi...

This comprehensive new reference focuses on the variety of animal figures produced in Staffordshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....

Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie® has reigned supreme in the world of dolls, and today she is collected by fans around the world. A required ...

Strawberry Shortcake is an ideal, a philosophy of life that may be looked down upon smugly by collectors of supposedly more "sophisticated" dolls. ...

As long as there have been doors there have been doorstops. Early on they may have been a convenient rock or piece of furniture, but in the 19th an...

This eye-popping book clearly and visually explores the history, types, and value ranges of Chinese snuff bottles from the 17th century to the pres...

Musical boxes have been made by master artisans since the 1700s, playing classical music, hymns, operatic arias and popular tunes by means of discs...

During the Great Depression, glass companies turned to machine made methods to produce inexpensive, colorful glass for the table and kitchen. Green...

He is grumpy, yet lovable, and would claw his way through an Italian restaurant for a plateful of steaming lasagna. Who else but Garfield®, the fam...

Since the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, the Olympics have grown to be among the most anticipated and watched events of any type in world. T...

One of the early twentieth centurys most prolific potteries, the S.A. Weller Pottery Company, of Zanesville, Ohio, produced art pottery and artware...