Flow Blue China ID Book 1 Adams Brownfields +
$ 18.48
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Collector Bookstore Collector Bookstore 724 Delaware Street Leavenworth, KS 66048 Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration. OOP-1995-0914736078 Flow Blue China: An Aid to Identification by Petra Williams ISBN: 9780914736073 Book Title: Flow Blue China An Aid to Identification Author: Petra Williams Binding: Hard Cover Copyright: 1995 Pages: 219 Size: 7 x 5 Trying to find out more about the wares and where they were made, and when, and what would be a fair value to pay for each item, I ran into a blank wall. Neither collectors nor dealers know much about these simple dishes. Historical Staffordshire has been well documented in this country by Laidecker, Larson and Little. Old china has been magnificently outlined by Kamm. The great patterns of the world have been written about by English writers like Godden and Cushion, but no one heretofore has tackled Flow Blue. Now, of course, a lot of Flow Blue is well over a century old and it is becoming rare. The attrition of constant use has taken its toll. It is difficult to acquire a service of the pattern of the 1860s and 1870s and almost impossible to acquire a service dating from 1840-1850 unless you are rich; then it's not easy. To judge by the doleful letters I have received, it is expensive to try to put together a complete set of the later Victorian periods. Collecting is made more difficult by the confusing duplication of titles. I feel that if a collector can see the patterns in a book and learn how to identify marks, he or she can collect more easily, can combine patterns to form a set, and can buy, sell and trade with confidence. Therefore, this book of patterns. (From Foreward) (Description generated 2025-02-07) 027fb7199978ab92efb6e3645b6cbb09
