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Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!
• A treasure trove of vital facts about painting, sculpture, commercial art, stoneware, metalware, textiles, and much more.
• Answers the most important questions: what to collect, why to collect, and how and where to start.
• A complete resource guide with terms, museums, publications, shows, and conservation resources.
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Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!
Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!
• A treasure trove of vital facts about painting, sculpture, commercial art, stoneware, metalware, textiles, and much more.
• Answers the most important questions: what to collect, why to collect, and how and where to start.
• A complete resource guide with terms, museums, publications, shows, and conservation resources.
From the Inside Flap
Learn to think, talk, buy, and sell like an expert!
• A treasure trove of vital facts about painting, sculpture, commercial art, stoneware, metalware, textiles, and much more.
• Answers the most important questions: what to collect, why to collect, and how and where to start.
• A complete resource guide with terms, museums, publications, shows, and conservation resources.
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Whether it's a piece of pottery found at a flea market, a weathervane discovered at auction, or a sampler found at a yard sale, antiques add individuality to our homes and enrich our lives with the history they impart and the questions they inspire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
watercolor portraiture, folk art market, cigar store figures, folk art dealer, redware pottery, folk portraits, carousel figures, waterfowl decoys, tramp art, folk sculpture, stoneware pottery, folk art collection, auction record, outsider art, trade signs, instant expert Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, Pennsylvania German, United States, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Edward Hicks, American Folk Art Museum, Ammi Phillips, Holger Cahill, Edith Gregor Halpert, New Hampshire, Electra Havemeyer Webb, William Edmondson, Bill Traylor, Main Street, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Henry Francis du Pont, Museum of Modern Art, Native Americans, Wilhelm Schimmel, William Matthew Prior, Bucks County, David Wheatcroft Antiques, Erastus Salisbury Field, Grandma Moses New!
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Whether it's a piece of pottery found at a flea market, a weathervane discovered at auction, or a sampler found at a yard sale, antiques add individuality to our homes and enrich our lives with the history they impart and the questions they inspire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
watercolor portraiture, folk art market, cigar store figures, folk art dealer, redware pottery, folk portraits, carousel figures, waterfowl decoys, tramp art, folk sculpture, stoneware pottery, folk art collection, auction record, outsider art, trade signs, instant expert Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, Pennsylvania German, United States, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Edward Hicks, American Folk Art Museum, Ammi Phillips, Holger Cahill, Edith Gregor Halpert, New Hampshire, Electra Havemeyer Webb, William Edmondson, Bill Traylor, Main Street, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Henry Francis du Pont, Museum of Modern Art, Native Americans, Wilhelm Schimmel, William Matthew Prior, Bucks County, David Wheatcroft Antiques, Erastus Salisbury Field, Grandma Moses New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Folk Art (Country Crafts Series) by Rh Value Publishing on page 120, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Peaceable Kingdom (Postcard) by Hicks on page 63, page 94, and page 95
- American hooked and sewn rugs: 2 by Joel Kopp on page 154, and Back Matter
- The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876 by Jean Lipman on page 150, and Back Matter
- Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America by Webster on page 155, and Back Matter
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