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Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles 2010 Price Guide (Antique Trader's Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide)

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As an avid collector of American art pottery, I was thrilled by the incredible scope of this book. It's also made me get out and search for more pieces to upgrade my collection.

I highly recommend this book as a general price guide. It has more photos and more detailed descriptions than any other general price guide available. The review by B. Marcoux ("Psychnurse") is unrealistic and shows a lack of understanding of the purpose of a general price guide. A general price guide is intended to give a broad overview of as many categories as possible. It isn't meant to provide an example of every item ever produced, as there would be hundreds of thousands in each category. It shows representative samples to give a cross section of the types and values of items in each category. There are many price guides available dedicated to specific categories like jewelry, but even specific guides can't cover everything ever made. The Antique Trader price guide actually does cover jewelry in quite a bit of depth. It has about 40 pages of jewelry with several hundred photos and listings covering 200 years, and it is introduced by a jewelry market report. Most sections of the book have a photo for almost every item.

This Antiques and Collectible book is one I have designed for the last 8 years. I think the book has nice photos, alot of information for your collector, whether you are a avid collector or other. If you know of someone to buy it for a Christmas gift that does collect. This would be the book.

I agree that B. Marcoux's review misses the mark. Antique Trader is a "general" price guide, the purpose of which is to give a "general" overview of many different antiques and collectibles categories - and this book does a great job of that. It's all color and packed with thousands of photos and listings, so if you're new to the collecting hobby, this book will arm you with a lot of information and most likely a wish list of items you will want to collect.

Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles 2010 Price Guide by Dan Brownell, is a book on the prices of over 200 different types of things people collect. Sounds like it should be a great book, right? It did to me too. Problem is that for each different category there is to collect, such as dolls, bottles, plates, military items etc. there many, many different things in each category. Costume jewelry for instances, you have earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, pins, broaches, belts, belt buckles, cuff links, tie clips, fur pins, sweater clips, charms, pendents, rings, for both men and women. The author covers costume jewelry, everything, in three (3) pages, listing a total number of 64 items. Sixty-four total items! I mentioned 15 different TYPES of jewelry and I didn't even mention all of them. To make things even harder to find a price for your particular jewelry item, if it is even listed at all is that of the sixty-four items listed only eight (8) of them have pictures. The other fifty-six (56) items have just a vague written description that could be one of a hundred different pieces. I was not lucky enough to find even one single piece of jewelry that I own listed on those three (3) pages, and I own over two (2) hundred pieces of costume jewelry! I also collect baseball cards, coins, dolls, stamps, plates, green depression glassware, old lamps both electrical & oil, old tools, brass, memorabilia, just about anything old and unique and I was not able to find a single thing I have in that book. Very disappointing. Therefore, I do not recommend this book to anyone looking to find a price for the things they collect unless they feel very, very, very lucky!

This book has plenty of pictures to help identify an item. Well written, up to date, and factual. A wonderful resource for any collector or anyone interested in antiques!