Customer Reviews

Crackle Glass from Around the World: Identification and Value Guide

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This book provides a wonderful display of crackle glass with vibrant photographs and detail. It provides information to help the collector assess the value in regards to color and type of crackle glass. A wonderful addition to the Weitman's first book on crackle glass. I would like to see more unique pieces. There is repetitive glass in this book, however they differ slightly and do offer valuable information. A wonderful book for the beginner as well as advanced collector. Five stars!

This book also comes with a history of crackle glass and overshot glass-very informative. Pictures are large with description and pricing listed underneath photo.

When I first flipped through this book, I thought it showed some promise. Now having gone through it page by page I've come to realize how wrong it is to judge a book by it's cover(or flipping through it in this case). To say this book is full of mistakes is an understatement. In fact since going through this book I think it can be blamed for a fair amount of misidentified crackle glass on the internet. There are so many misidentified pieces I couldn't list them in the space alloted. I understand that guide books are simply that, but the fact of the matter is most folks will quote from them as gospel.
The images (large amount of cruets) are very repetative. After a while they all seem to run together in a mismash of misidentified Blenko, Rainbow, Pilgrim et. al.
Save your money, buy the Leslie Pina books, while they aren't perfect either, they are a heck of a lot better than this "guide book". While Pina's books are not cheap, you know what the saying is "you get what you paid for". I really wish I had not paid for this book.

Just reading the page preview permitted by Amazon to determine if you want to order the book, I see misinformation. "Probably Blenko" doesn't show a lot of research. One piece of glass marked "probably Blenko" is Kanawha and is in their old catalogs. I have one in green and another in brown. I do give kudos to the authors for actually interviewing the folks at Hamon Glass. And the spelling for the owners of Kanawha should be Merritt.

Book has a nice variety of the various pieces of Crackle Glass. I really wished that it would have had the piece reference numbers, that correspond to the various shapes of Pilgrim Glass. I know that the original catalogs had these, and would like someone to do a "complete" reference book of this. Those of us, who collect Pilgrim Glass from back in the late 60s, would love to have a better reference book on our shelves. This book is very good, but does not cover it all.

An excellent reference book with lots of nice color photos. A must have for collectors.

The bottom line on this book is that it is a " must have " for anyone that is interested in glass period. The pictures are very well done along with the knowledge of crackle glass. It is hard to believe that this is the first book ever on the subject. I will buy the two others right away! Stan and Arlene Weitman , thank you .