Description: An introduction to "the silver and ceramic tablewares that have been used at the western dining table since the 16th century and to show the features that help identify their style, date, manufacturer, and country of origin."
Description: A guide to identifying early American pressed glass patterns, grouped according to "molded characteristics" such as circles, diamonds, flowers.
Description: Gives information about the techniques of decorating early American furniture, walls, tinware, etc. and also gives instructions about how to do that oneself. Covers stenciling, applying gold leaf, japanning, oil-painted boxes and chests Envelope inside front cover contains cut stencils.
Description: Fireplates, cooking utensils, fireplace equipment, doorstops, trivets, book ends, desk and paper weights, iron banks, iron toys, flat irons.
Description: Includes background of pilgrim and arts and craft handicrafts as well as woodworking, spinning, weaving, knitting, dying, pottery, carving, needlework, silversmithing, and more.
Description: How to recognize and evaluate any antique--large or small--like an expert. This is a general guide covering paper, glass, furniture, pottery and porcelain, clocks, and more.
Description: An identification guide to American, English, and European porcelain arranged by factory marks according to their shapes, e.g., letters or words or by shapes such as animals, circles, etc.
Description: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1998, a collection of articles on subjects such as "Repairs versus Deception on Essex County Cupboards," "Cabinetmaking Practices...", and about such people as Capt. Abraham Knowlton, William Lloyd, Amzi Chapin; and places such as Worcester County, Mass.; Sterling, Mass.