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An exhaustive overview of the American Arts and Crafts Movement provides a close-up look at every major artist, manufacturer, and objects of the period, listing current prices for a wide array of furniture, pottern, metalwork, lamps, textiles, prints, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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The Official® Price Guide to American Arts & Crafts is the one-volume encyclopedia to help you identify and evaluate your entire Arts & Crafts collection. Written by David Rago and Bruce Johnson, two of the most respected experts in the Arts & Crafts field, this indispensable book is packed with:• Period names like Gustav Stickley, Limbert, George Ohr, Grueby, Fulper, Rookwood, Dirk Van Erp, Roycroft, Gustave Baumann, and many, many more.• Detailed descriptions, price listings, and brief histories of every kind of object, artist, and major manufacturer of furniture, pottery, metalware, lighting, textiles, and color woodblock prints.• Crucial information on how to easily identify and date hundreds of Arts & Crafts pieces.• Insider tips on how to buy, sell, and care for your collection as well as how to detect reproductions and clever fakes• Hundreds of photographs and manufacturers' shop marks.
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