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| OS218) MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. Spring & Summer
Catalogue for 1895 - 1969 Dover Press
reprint. 624 pages. Over 75,000 items described and over 15,000
illustrated. d/w. Hardback. Good. Describing themselves as the largest mail order business in the U.S. with supplies for every trade and calling on earth . A fascinating collection of items from carved church organs to chalk crayons and a wonderul source book for today's collectables and antiques. |
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| OS219) The CABINET MAKER and Art Furnisher Vol, VIII
1887-8 - Edited by Benn J.W. July
1887 to June 1st 1888. 336 pages. 48 full page engravings with
some 440 engravings in the text. Plus 56 pages of advertisements
at the rear. Hard covers. Worn and discoloured. Endpapers weak.
Intact & complete. Fair to good. Covering the Treating of Furniture, Upholstery, decoration, Carpets, Metal Work, Art Pottery, Tools & Timber. Coverage of exhibitions includes the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition where Doulton, Maw and Tooth & Co's Bretby pottery are mentioned. Apart from the wide array of furniture designs numerous interesting monthly sections on Reviews of Trade Literature, Workmens Corner, New Inventions & Novelties etc. |
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| OS220) A History of ENGLISH FURNITURE. Volume One.
THE AGE OF OAK 1500-1600 & Volume Two. THE AGE OF WALNUT
1660-1720 - Macquoid P. 1972 reprints
of the 1905 originals. 1 colour. Vol. 1 241 pages. 215 b/w illustrations
& 15 b/w plates. 1 colour. Vol.2 245 pages. 223 b/w illustrations
& 15 b/w plates. Both soft covers. Good. The first two of four volumes of the standard works by Macquoid. |
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| OS221)
Exhibition. ENGLISH FURNITURE UPHOLSTERY 1660-1840 -Temple Newsam House. Leeds. August 1973. 80 pages.
53 black & white illustrations. Soft covers. Good. With 71 items and an 18 page introduction to upholstery. |
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| OS222)
The Price Guide to ANTIQUE FURNITURE
- Andrews J. 2nd edition. 1978 with price update for 1980. 290
pages. 1,015 b/w illustrations. Hardback.d/w. Good. Well illustrated and informative guide to all periods of furniture up to about 1880. |
£ 14.00 |
| OS223) RESTORING FURNITURE. Learn to make old furniture
new with a master craftsmen - Davis
K. & Henvey T. 112 pages. 50 colour illustrations. 90 drawings.
Hardback.d/w. Very good. Step by step guide with before and after photographs and drawings showing how each step is achieved. Covers chairs, tables, desk. writing box etc. |
£ 10.00 |
| OS224) THE ENGLISH COUNTRY CHAIR. An Illustrated history
of chairs and chairmaking - Sparkes
I. 1973. 159 pages. 142 b/w illustrations. Softback Good. |
£ 9.50 |
| OS225) VERRES DE BOHEME 1400 -1989- Petrova, Sylva & Jean-Luc Olivie .1980. 240 pages.
208 colour plates & 80 black & white. Large format hardback.d/w.
Very good. Bohemian glass with text in French. Chapters are the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts & its glass collection, the Middle Ages & The Renaissance, the Baroque period, from Neo-Classical taste to Historicism, from Art Nouveau to the end of the Thirties and Contemporary Creators. |
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| OS226) The Marshall Guide to ANTIQUE CHINA & SILVER
- Forrest T. Editor Atterbury P. 1998.
16 pages. 275 colour illustrations. Hardback. Dust wrapper. very
good. An illustrated guide to tableware, identifying period detail and design from 1600 to 1950 in silver and ceramic forms. |
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| OS227) Sale.ARTS DECORATIFS du XX SIECLE Christie's. Monaco. June 25th 1989. 109 pages. 81
lots. 81 lots illsutrated. With price list. Soft. French text catalogue with English short descriptions. Containing 14 bronze animal studies by Rembrandt Bugatti. 44 lots of deco furniture by Printz, Rousseau and others. 9 items of glass including important Galle. |
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| OS228) Sale. MENTMORE. Vol. 1. FURNITURE - Sotheby Parke Bernet. 18th-20th May 1977. 354 pages.
955 lots. 550 b/w & 98 colour plates. Hardback. D/w. French and continental furniture, tapestries and clocks from the Earle of Roseberry Mentmore House sale. |
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| OS229) Sale. The ROUS LENCH Collection. Volume Two.
Furniture and Works of Art - 3rd -
4th & 7th of July 1986. 203 pages. 620 lots. 230 lots in
b/w & 44 in colour. Soft covers. Fine. ( Part one was ceramics
only). The furniture, enamels, clocks, wood sculptures, stone & lead ornaments,Embroidery and other works of art from Rous Lench Court. |
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| OS230) Sale. The JOSEPH R. RITMAN Collection of 16th
and 17th Century Dutch Glass - Sotheby's.
14th November 1995. 83 lots. All lots illustrated in colour plus
some b/w illust. of signatures. With price list. Mostly diamond point engraved items including serpent stemmed glasses, flasks and other rare items. Rare examples of early Dutch glass with a forward to the catalogue by Frans Smit. |
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| OS231)
The Wallace Collection Catalogue. SCULPTURE. Marbles, Terra-Cottas
and Bronzes, Carvings --- , Medals,
Coins and Wax-reliefs. Mann J.G. 1935 HMSO. 264 pages of text.
100 pages of b/w plates. Soft. Good. 466 items are catalogued and described in detail and over 300 of these are illustrated, |
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| OS232)
Sale. The Krug Collection of GLASS Part.3 -
Sotheby's 15th November. 1982. 94 pages.144 lots. 75 in b/w and
47 lots in colour.Hardback.d/w. Important early Bohemian engraved and coloured glass. |
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| OS233) Magazine of Art. Nov 1899 to April 1900 . 296 pages. 4 engravings. Approx. 380 other illustrations, some full page. Full leather spine and corners. Leather to spine with slight rubbing Covers part leather and black cloth & gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good. |
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| OS234)
Exhibition. GLASS THROUGH THE AGES-
Alan Tilman Antiques. June 1974. 52 pages. 96 items. 29 in colour
& 67 in b/w. Soft. Good. The London dealers catalogue that contains mostly Venetian glass, English engraved glass, Bohemian and French paper weights. Includes a rare unrecorded glass teapot of silver form a Venetian mid 16th century Latticinio bowl . Also a few items of Roman and Damascus glass. |
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| OS235)
Exhibition. Circle of Glass Collectors. COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION
1937-1962 - V.&A. July 1962. 72
pages. 383 items. 65 illustrated. Soft. Good. Formed in 1937 the Glass circle celebrated 25 years of existence. Items are mostly 18th & 19th century English & European glass loaned from members with lenders names. |
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| OS236)
Collecting PICTURE POSTCARDS - Geoffrey
Godden. 1996. 222 pages. 212 b/w illustrations. Hard covers.
The history and development of picture postcards using Geoffrey Godden's home town of Worthing (a popular seaside resort) as a typical vehicle for his description of the history. The world famous ceramic author has written a detailed account based on his own private collection of postcards. |
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| OS237)
Sale. The Estate of PETER JAY SHARP. Sotheby's
New York. 13th January 1994. 138 pages. 100 colour plates. 76
lots. Hardback.d/w. Old masters including Reubens, important colour plate books including Thornton's 'Temple of Flora', Bronzes and furniture. |
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