American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection
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Pre 1990 item# 819441
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$85 with free shipping
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Huge (12 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches) and handsome book with lavish color photographs of 101 pieces. In "like new" condition with some identifying penciled notes on three pages in the back of volume giving comparative details of furniture legs. Book is authored by J. Michael Flanigan, a frequent guest appraiser on the Antiques Road Show, and has introductory essays by Wendy A. Cooper, Morrison H. Heckscher and Gregory R. Weidman. Price includes free media mail shipping within the USA.
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New England Furniture The Colonial Era SPNEA Collection
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Antiques:
Pre 1990 item# 819426
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207-563-1964
$22 with free shipping
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Authored by Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, this handsome quarto volume catalogs 148 items from the collection of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), amply illustrated. It also contains three essays, one by Jobe and two by Philip Zea. This is a First Edition, First Printing, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, in 1984. It is in almost "like new" condition with unclipped dust wrapper; however, there is a 3/4 inch clean tear at bottom left on back o ...click for details
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American Silver from the Kossack Collection:A Checklist
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Pre 1990 item# 800094
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207-563-1964
$35
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Checklist for 1988 exhibit celebrating the gift to Yale by the Kossack family of American silver encompassing at the time almost 4,400 objects dating from about 1720 to 1890. It included 1,965 tea, 774 table, 207 dessert, 199 salt and 49 mustard and other small spoons; 467 sugar shells and tongs; 269 ladles; 151 pieces of holloware; 126 forks; 46 knives; 43 spectacles; 36 serving pieces, and 35 pieces of jewelry representing the work of approximately 1,100 silversmiths. Listed authors are David ...click for details
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Marks of American Silversmiths by Louise Conway Belden
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Coin Silver:
Pre 1980 item# 799909
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$950
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This is THE BOOK if you are interested in American coin silver. Difficult to find, and expensive, every collector and dealer MUST HAVE IT!
The full name of the book is Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection.
Published in 1980 for The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, it is a handsome quarto volume of 506 pages with hundreds of photographs of silversmiths' marks. It also has a listing of initial marks ...click for details
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