SCHIFFER BOOKS

EARLY 1970S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764305204) (P/B)

EARLY 1960S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764314718) (P/B)

MID 1970S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764307304) (P/B)

EARLY 1980S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764308769) (P/B)

EUROPEAN PENDULUM CLOCKS (0887401449) (H/B)

DESIGNS FOR GARDEN PATHS (076430383X) (H/B)

WINDJAMMERS OF THE PACIFIC RIM (0887400868) (P/B)

(H/B) A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN

(H/B) FIRE SPACES
Warning: This book will make you want to include a fireplace or stove in almost every room in your home, and the yard too! The beauty, alluring warmth, and technological ease and cleanliness of today's hearth products make having a fire faster, easier, safer, and more enticing than ever. This book illustrates the allure, with more than 350 gorgeous color images. It's easy to find your style, visiting hundreds of homes and experiencing the way fire spaces have been incorporated into the surroundings and decor. There has never been a book li...
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MID 1940S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764318586) (P/B)

MID 1950S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING (0764316206) (P/B)

THE NAVAJO ART OF SANDPAINTING (0764308106) (P/B)

(H/B) NAUTICAL ANTIQUES
This beautiful volume illustrates hundreds of nautical treasures, items related to lives of seamen in past generations. Included are a variety of scrimshawed items, sailor-made ship models, nautical instruments and aids, nautical and whaling implements, furnishings and accessories, ship's figureheads, sternboards, and billet heads, ship's journals, ephemera, paintings, and much more. A useful price guide is included. This fascinating and complete look at the artifacts of our nautical past will be enjoyed by collectors and old salts alike. ...
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SILVER NOVELTIES IN THE GILDED AGE (0764312952) (H/B)
This beautiful book is the first to showcase hundreds of intriguing figural silver and silver plated items that were used for a variety of purposes during the opulent Gilded Age. Highly decorative, ostensibly functional, these fascinating late nineteenth and early twentieth century objects (referred to as "novelties" at the time) reflect the mores of the rising entrepreneurial class as well as the evolving technology that allowed such items to be produced. These endearing and often whimsical pieces, shown in over 600 color photos, include ...
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(H/B) THE STORY OF ANTIQUE NEEDLEWORK TOOLS
Compared with other antiques, little has been written about needlework tools. They have long been taken for granted as part of the fabric of every household, hardly deserving serious attention. Now that position is changing, and more information is being sought. There are not many fields of collecting that reside in the female domain; up until recently, textiles, dolls, and fans have been the only ones that easily came to mind. Now needlework tools, such as fitted sewing boxes, thimbles, chatelaines, and etuis, have become important enough...
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(H/B) WOMEN'S HATS OF THE 20th CENTURY FOR DESIGNERS AND COLLECTORS

WRISTWATCHES: A HANDBOOK (0764319019) (P/B)

MINIATURE PERFUME BOTTLES (0887406289) (P/B)
The use of fragrances has become an important part of our everyday lives, almost to the extent of becoming a necessity. Imagine a day without the fragrant scents we have in soap, deodorant, shampoo, household cleaners, air fresheners, and especially the fragrant perfumes we wear everyday. Life would be bland without fragrant scents to enhance the odors we smell. Fragrances have become an accepted part of our individual habits, and we tend to take them for granted. A person's choice of fragrance is as personal as his or her choice of hairst...
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MARBLE MANIA (0764300148) (H/B)

COLLECTING ANTIQUE MEERSCHAUM PIPES (0764307657) (H/B)