Book
The concise encyclopedia of American antiques
Item details
- ISBN: 0801516803
- ISBN: 9780801516801
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Physical Description:
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848 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 26 cm. - Publisher: New York : Hawthorn Books, [1965]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Furniture, 1640-1840 ; Victorian furniture ; Windsor chairs / Marvin D. Schwartz -- Country furniture in New England / Frank O. Spinney -- The craftsmanship of the American Shakers / Edward Deming Andrews -- Looking glasses used in America / Martha Gandy Fales -- Silver, 1640-1820 / Kathryn C. Buhler -- Pewter / Eric de Jonge -- Wrought iron / M.W. Thomas, Jr. -- Tin, copper and brass / Henry J. Kauffman -- Japanned tin-plate / Shirley Spaulding DeVoe -- Period stoves / Josephine H. Peirce -- China-trade porcelain for the American market / Alice Winchester -- Pottery and porcelain / Gregor Norman-Wilcox -- Glass / Carolyn Scoon -- Figured bottles and flasks / Helen McKearin -- Needlework / Ruth Bradbury Davidson -- Cotton printing / D. Graeme Keith -- Quilts and coverlets / Virginia D. Parslow -- The oriental "carpitt" in colonial America / Joseph V. McMullan -- Hooked rugs / Virginia D. Parslow -- Eighteenth-century floorcloths / Helen Comstock -- Lighting devices / G. Malcolm Watkins -- Candlesticks, sconces, chandeliers / Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. -- Antique buttons / Lillian Smith Albert and Jane Ford Adams -- Early tradecards / Bella C. Landauer -- Trade catalogues / Lawrence B. Romaine -- Playing cards / Lawrence Kurzrok -- Minor arts : quillwork, treen, chalkware / Edith Gaines -- Swords ; Firearms, 1650-1865 / Harold L. Peterson -- Clocks and watches / Amos G. Avery -- Early portrait painting / Helen Comstock -- Painting in the nineteenth century / John I.H. Baur -- Folk painting / Nina Fletcher Little -- Miniature painting / Josephine L. Allen -- Engravings / Elizabeth E. Roth -- Silhouettes / M.L. D'Otrange-Mastai -- Lithographs / Frank Weitenkampf -- Early railroad prints / Rudolph Wunderlich -- Sport in art / Paul Magriel -- The Old West / Harold McCracken -- Folk sculpture / Erwin O. Christensen -- Pennsylvania-German folk art / Frances Lichten -- Dolls and toy miniatures / Janet Pinney -- Mechanical toys / Louis H. Hertz -- Coins and medals / Sydney P. Noe -- Rare books / John Cook Wyllie -- Printed maps / Alexander O. Vietor -- Ship models / Robert H. Burgess -- Whaling collections / Edouard A. Stackpole -- Marine paintings and prints / Harold S. Sniffen -- Stamps / Kent B. Stiles and George B. Sloane -- Theater, circus and ballet / Paul Myers -- Wallpapers used in America, 1700-1850 / Horace L. Hotchkiss, Jr. -- Valentines and Christmas cards / Ruth Webb Lee -- Autographs / Gordon T. Banks -- Calligraphy / Alexander Nesbitt -- Tools of early industries / Loring McMillen -- Patent office models / Jack E. Brown -- Dime novels / Mary Noel -- Arts of the southwest / E. Boyd. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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| Subject: | Decorative arts United States Art, American Antiques Dictionaries Collectors and collecting Arts décoratifs États-Unis Art américain Antiquités (Objets anciens) Dictionnaires anglais |
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