Customer Reviews

Bassett's Roseville Prices - 2nd edition

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Mark Bassett's "Introducing Roseville Pottery" quickly became my favorite Roseville guide. It is comprehensive, easy to use, and the vases are beautifully photographed. Patterns are listed alphabetically, with years of production noted, along with a description of colors and shapes used, the shape numbers where applicable, and values. If there's any fault with this book, is that it does not give a value for every shape (though enough to give you an idea). However, it appears there is a paperback value guide on the way to fix that. There is also a wonderful chapter with photographs of various marks, signatures, and labels, as well as an appendix regarding reproductions and fantasy pieces. One caution to Roseville lovers, after an hour paging through this book at the real Roseville, you'll be picking out new patterns to pursue!

I have read this book a number of times and find out something new each time. I find the book well thought out, well photographed, and very informative. I am especially confused about the review from July 2002 that claimed the book had no photos? My book has photos on every page.

This book is a great research tool but we would have appreciated more photos and a more comprehensive selection of values by piece.

I found this guide to be of little use. All of the information contained could be easily gleaned from internet auction sites with little or no effort and no expense. Other guides make an effort to include obscure pricing with much more complete reference. Avoid this one as it is of little help. Find other guides by authors who put a little more effort into their work.

This book is described as having over 840 color pictures. It does not have a single picture...A price book with no pictures is useless to me.

The reviews that say "no pictures", "pedestrian price guide", etc., are for a different book entirely - they are for Bassetts Roseville Price Guide, NOT for this book which is Bassett's Introducing Roseville Pottery. This book is fantastic! It is lavishly illustrated with many examples from every single Roseville line. As a beginner in the Roseville world, this was the best introduction I could hope for, giving me the chance to become familiar with all Roseville products in one place. Prices are only given for illustrated items, which is enough to give you a good idea of the relative values of the different lines, but of course all prices must be taken with a grain of salt since the marketplace is so variable. EBay prices, for instance, probably average out to maybe a half or a third of what he indicates. But if what you want is what the book is called - an introduction to Roseville - then look no farther.

I bought this book to give to my husband for Christmas. This will be the book he takes with him when we hit the antique and flea markets. There are no pictues, so you have to know what you are looking for, but it gives the buyer a general idea of how these collectibles are priced. The one failing this book has is the same failing almost all price guides have: The prices are usually for high end antique shops. Therefore, the prices in this book are usually higher than the ones we see here in our part of the country.