Kovels Quick Tips

Kovels' Quick Tips 799 Helpful Hints on How to Care for Your Collectibles Want to know how to clean your stuffed moose head, remove the gum stain from a baseball card, repair a cracked porcelain figurine, hang a vintage dress, or hide a scratch on your piano? In Kovels' Quick Tips, experts Ralph and Terry Kovel reveal those secrets and many more. As the Heloise of the antiques world, the Kovels tell you how to care for and maintain the treasures in your home, from your favorite jewelry, heirloom silver, and childhood toys to your Coca-Cola bottle collection, kitchen utensils, books, and family photographs. Organized by subject, this handy and fun little book includes 799 tips collected by the Kovels over the past 25 years that will appeal to everyone who has gathered a treasured assortment of collectibles and household items. This book is complete with a list of product sources.

A must-read for parents, The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders. The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn’t know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can’t get to class on time. This practical book is full of hands-on strategies for helping parents identify and teach organizational skills. Educational consultant Donna Goldberg has developed these methods by working with hundreds of students and in this book she provides: -Assessments to gather information about your child’s learning style, study habits, and school requirements -Guidelines for taming that overstuffed binder and keeping it under control -PACK—a four-step plan for purging and reassembling a backpack or locker -Instructions for organizing an at-home work space for the child who studies at a desk or the child who studies all over the house -Ways to help your child graduate from telling time to managing time -Special tips for kids with learning disabilities and kids who have two homes...and more The Organized Student is a must for any parent who has heard the words, “I can’t find my homework!”

Need an eye for your teddy bear? Searching for another soup spoon to complete Grandma's silver? Looking for someone to repair your porcelain doll? Wondering if restoring your carousel horse will lower its value? Kovels' Yellow Pages is the ultimate directory for collectors. It helps you find sources for repair, restoration, and parts, and it lists matching services, appraisers, and auction houses--all you need to help you maintain the value of your antiques and add to your enjoyment of collecting. America's antiques experts, Ralph and Terry Kovel, also give you "insider" information on how to navigate the complicated world of buying, selling, and collecting antiques. They have distilled a lifetime's worth of information to give you the last word on Where to start when you've inherited a house full of stuff How to know if you need an appraiser and where to find one When giving away an antique is more profitable than selling it If repairing or restoring an object will lower or enhance its value How to bid in out-of-town auctions Kovels' Yellow Pages gives you firsthand information from more than 3,000 suppliers, clubs, auctions, services, and industry sources nationwide. You'll find names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, plus e-mail and Internet addresses. There's also an extensive bibliography of price books and reference books most helpful to collectors. With this guide, you have at your fingertips the most complete and up-to-date collector's reference available anywhere.

Alphabetically arranged entries provides retail prices for more than 50,000 different antiques and collectibles, with photographs, factory marks and logos, and a special report on record-breaking prices for 2003.

Actual prices -- Not estimates Portable size -- Convenient for use on the road or at home Exclusive color report Easy to use -- Alphabetical listing, cross-referenced and indexed Handy ruler -- In inches and centimeters Record-setting prices of the past year

This is the ultimate sourcebook for collectors, appraisers, and dealers of virtually any kind of antique, fine art, or collectible. 350 photos. 16-page color insert.

Long used and respected by collectors, this book provides current prices of more than 10,000 old and modern bottles -- manufactured from the 1700s to the 1990s -- in more than 80 categories. Included are figurals, bitters, flasks, ink, beer, milk, soda, perfume, medicine, Avon, Jim Beam, Ezra Brooks, and other collectible bottles. The Kovels provide company histories, a list of national and regional bottle collectors' clubs, bottle auction houses, publications of special interest to collectors, and an extensive bibliography.