Oyster plates, platters, and servers produced in porcelain, majolica, faence, English ironstone, and French stoneware are displayed in over 475 beautiful color photographs. Ranging from the elegant to the everyday, these plates date from the mid-nineteenth through the late-twentieth century. The informative and interesting text includes histories of the major oyster plate manufacturers (including Minton, Wedgwood, Haviland, and the Quimper potteries, among others) whose wears are on display. Also included are an examination of manufacturer's marks, a discussion of the ceramic and glass oyster plate forms and decoration, current market values in the captions, an extensive bibliography, and an index.
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Jeffrey B. Snyder is an experienced writer, editor, and public speaker. He has discussed antiques on radio and television alike. He has appeared several times on Martha Stewart Living and was recently seen on WHYY TV's PBS special Philadelphia: Workshop of the World
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Oysters Please!,
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This review is from: Collecting Oyster Plates (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Paperback)
I am new to collecting oyster plates and from what I can find there are only 2 books in current publication on collecting them.
"Collecting Oyster Plates" by Jeffery B. Snyder is loaded with large, clear beautiful pictures and has adequate information on most of the plates photographed. Since plates are being manufactured to this date and forged as antiques books like this one are desirable if you want to be sure as you possibly can you are not buying a replica. The book has chapters on manufactures marks and how to date plates with said marks. Covering too registrations of marks. This book covers different ceramic forms used for oyster plates. Oyster plates come in a wide variety of of colors and motifs. This book helps coordinate the colors and motifs to the regions from which they come from. I found this to be a very interesting chapter. This is really a lovely book and I would highly recommend it for those who are considering collecting oyster plates. It is quite complete from what this beginner has found.
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Oysters Rule,
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This review is from: Collecting Oyster Plates (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Paperback)
As a resident of Apalachicola, Florida "oyster capital of the world", this seemed a fitting coffee table book. Arrived in great shape and timely.
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