Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) [Hardcover]

Philly Rains (Author), Donald Bull (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2001 | Series: Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide

This book presents vintage, often whimsical, and one-of-a-kind wooden figurine carvings by ANRI, the world-renowned company founded in 1912 in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. Among the more than 2,500 carvings featured are bottle stoppers, bottle openers and corkscrews, bar sets, calendars, letter openers, bookends, humidors, ashtrays, lighters, cigarette boxes, pipe rests, salt and pepper sets, pepper mills, napkin rings, timers, toothpick holders, brushes, salt and serving spoons, spoon and key racks, door knockers, and figurines, including monks and characters from novels by Charles Dickens. Collectors with a wide range of interests will be delighted with the amazing number of woodcarvings shown. This book will amuse and inspire todays woodcarvers and collectors, novices and experienced devotees alike.

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About the Author

Philly Rains discovered vintage ANRI in the mid-1980s and her collection now numbers over 1,200 items. She is the owner of Black Cat Antiques in Arkansas. Don Bull is a well-known expert on corkscrews, openers, and advertising who has previously authored six books for Schiffer Publishing. Dons home is in Virginia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd (November 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764314211
• ISBN-13: 978-0764314216
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carving Inspiration, April 26, 2004

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Wyatt Sample (St. Louis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

This book is written for collectors but as a woodcarver, I appreciate the history of woodcarving that is a part of this book. The book is filled with great color photos of carvings done over many years. On the downside, it cost me more money because after reading it, I ended up going to ebay and bidding on several anri carvings. I did note than a number of the carvings for sale were being sold by the books author.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars encyclopedia of stoppers, August 18, 2011

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This review is from: Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

Worth every star of the five available.
The pictures are full color and gorgeously detailed.
The clear organization of an impossibly expansive list of Anri products makes the information comprehensible.
The text accompanying the pictures is clever without being cutsy.
The wealth of knowledge the authors share with the reader is amazing.
The nutshell of the history of ANRI whetted my curiosity to learn more.
There is a small negative to the quality of the book: occasionally the L - R orientation is reversed from the copy to the picture.
On a personal level, I was disappointed in the book. I am not a collector of stoppers, corkscrews, nutcrackers, etc. The coffee table price made me wish I could have found this encyclopediac tome in a library somewhere. It did not yield me the good internet links into other ANRI styles and figurines that I had hoped to find.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One eyed man, October 4, 2010

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M. Gray "MHG" (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide) (Hardcover)

This book has some good pictures and is quite comprehensive (I think). However, the pricing of the items leaves a lot to be desired. The suggested prices are quite vague and incomplete. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Since there are prices suggested it is helpful to have some information rather than none which was the case before I got the book. For a collector, it is worth its cost for the wide range of Anri figures depicted.