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Collectables offers an astonishing range of antiques of the future. Each object is portrayed in color with description and price range to provide a comprehensive portrait.

The only comprehensive, illustrated pocket book on the market for the antiques and collectables buyer.Each chapter explains what to look for when buying antiques - how to spot repairs and fakes, clues to dating and the history of factories and key designers. Comprehensive marks sections include international hallmarks and more than 1,000 marks from ceramics factories across the world: from 18th century Meissen to 20th century Rookwood. Since it was first published in 1988 Miller's Pocket Antiques Factfile has sold almost 128,000 copies. However, the market for antiques has changed dramatically: 20th century design, whether Art Deco or Mid Century Modern, has become a popular collecting area and so this completely reworked edition will keep the core information about antique furniture, ceramics, glass and silver while new sections will cover Modern Design - from Eames furniture to Murano glass, Spratling silver to Studio pottery.It contains all the essential information you need when you're on the antiques trail.

Aims to help the new collector in successful purchasing. Would-be buyers need not be experts to understand the tips which will help them authenticate, date and identify antiques - and spot the fakes. All the major areas are covered, from furniture and pottery to art deco and dolls.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Martin Miller is a legend in antiques publishing. In 2000, the man who started Miller's Antiques Price Guide and co-founded the Lyle Antiques Review brought you his best idea yet: a full-color illustrated guide to antiques prices, based on retail outlets. Following the success of the first three editions of this groundbreaking guide, this year's edition continues the high quality, full-color standard of the first book. Retail prices are a better indication of actual value than the wild variations in price which can be a feature of auction sales, and, in handy paperback format, this is the perfect companion for your antiques hunts, as well as an excellent reference source for identifying and valuing your own antiques. Including extensive entries for collectables - the increasingly popular 'antiques of the future' - and a guide to importing antiques to the USA, the Antiques Source Book contains everything you need to know about buying.

This title provides detailed information on how to spot repairs and fakes, and clues to dating pieces, plus a comprehensive marks section that includes more than 1,000 international ceramics marks. And because of the surge in popularity of 20th-century design, it contains all of the core information about furniture, ceramics, glass, and silver, but adds new sections on modern pieces, as well.