Furniture (Miller's Antiques Checklist)

by Martin Miller (Author), Martin Miller (Author), Martin Miller (Author), Judith Miller (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.44

  This is an illustrated pocket guide to identifying and dating furniture for collectors. Each double-page spread is devoted to a particular item and gives a question-and-answer guide to identification, followed by a detailed analysis. There are notes on fakes and restorations. The guide features analyses of individual types of furniture, organized by category and period, from America, England and the continent. Special spreads are given over to woods, legs and feet, handles, pediments and mouldings. Special categories include drawered furniture, seat furniture, tables, writing furniture, bookcases and cabinets, mirrors and beds. A companion checklist of art deco antiques is published simultaneously.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.44

  The Miller's Antiques Checklist series of pocket guides, most of which are now fully revised with updated prices, makes the world of antiques accessible to a wider audience than ever before. In each book a simple question-and-answer checklist is provided for a broad range of representative items, teaching you what to look for and how to distinguish between the genuine article and a fake, an original and a copy. These information-packed books are superb introductory courses for the beginner and refresher courses for those already with some collecting experience.