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1334 Open Salts Illustrated: The Tenth Book

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Just received this book...all it contains is pictures and descriptions..NO mention of value! How will I know if $25 is too much OR too little to spend on a certain salt if I have no guideline??!! USELESS. Am sending it back in the morning. I'm very disappointed..wish I had a better idea of what I was ordering...

This and the other nine books by Helen and Allan Smith are excellent sources of photos and information on open salts. These were the only sources for many years. They still show salts that are not shown in any other books. There are no prices listed in these books because often small leaflets of prices were included that might have been lost. There is a price guide that can be obtained seperately and which was written by an expert dealer in open salts. This was written in l987 by the dealer who has since died. Many of the prices are still relevant, but it is hard to update the guide as many of the salts in the books can not be seen first hand. This is especially true of the silver ones. The books are still of great value to all serious collectors.

Even though I am a co-author of a new book on open salts, I still value these books greatly. There was no way we could include all the salts found in these books in our new one even if we had wished to.