Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.