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Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 3
Language
English
Description
Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Collected, expert collectors and decorating experts Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson present a tour of peculiar, elegant, and awe-inspiring collections from around the world. The book teaches readers the basic principles of the hunt while exploring the thoughtful and inventive ways that people display their various collections, from the accessible and affordable to the aspirational extreme. The featured collections range from dice and café au...
4) Bowled over
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When her glass bowl is used as a murder weapon, vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton must figure out who wants to implicate her in the death of a former friend.
Author
Publisher
Collector Books
Pub. Date
[20051999]
Language
English
Description
American pressed glass, which was at its zenith in the 1870s, entails hundreds of patterns and dozens of shapes with elaborate geometric, animal, fruit, and Horal designs. Available in crystal and sparkling colors, this collectible glassware flourished until the end of the 1920s, when a national depression started and a new glass took precedence. This all-new collector's encyclopedia features approximately 135 new patterns and photographs, bringing...
Author
Series
Helena Marsh novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting,...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On a backpacking trip with her aunt and uncle, a young girl collects rocks while hiking in the forest, by the river, and at the lake, but when her pack becomes too heavy too carry, she finds the perfect solution.
11) In a jar
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Llewellyn, a little rabbit who collects ordinary things in jars, meets a young girl named Evelyn, he joins with her to capture the extraordinary.
Author
Publisher
Whitman Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Containing Mint records and wholesale prices for U.S. coins from 1616 to the present time, including colonials, regular issues, commemoratives, territorials, gold, bullion coins, Proof sets, and Mint sets. Information on collecting coins -- how coins are produced -- mints and mintmarks -- grading of coins -- location of mintmarks -- preserving coins -- starting a collection -- history of mints -- and interesting descriptions of all U.S. copper, nickel,...
13) 13 gifts
Author
Series
Willow Falls series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.
Author
Publisher
Miller's
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Featuring more than 4,000 objects in full color, each with a detailed description and price range, the book also shows you how to spot that rare example that may be worth twenty times more than another piece. In-depth features explain why one piece is worth more than another, show how to value an item and teach you to be your own expert when appraising everything from 20th-century glass to costume jewelry. Comprehensive sections cover a wide range...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
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