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This book will provide you with the story and history of Wallace Nutting furniture, including how to differentiate lower quality pieces from Nutting's best and most collectible work, what types of furniture he reproduced and why it is so collectible today, ways to identify signed and unsigned pieces, how to distinguish reproductions from the original period antiques, and it even includes a numerical furniture grading system for evaluating condition. This book will provide you with up-to-date pricing, including actual auction and retail pricing, as well as consensus expert pricing on those rare and never-before-seen Nutting pieces. 2004 values.
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A licensed auctioneer in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, Ivankovich has been collecting Wallace Nutting pictures and furniture for some three decades, and has written numerous books and guides on the topic. In this text, he provides a more thorough background and history on Wallace Nutting bench-made reproduction furniture than in his 1990 work, The Guide to Wallace Nutting Furniture, based on additional auctioneering and research over the past 15 years. In recent years, Wallace Nutting furniture has begun to increase in value; the text includes a detailed price guide to current market values. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w photographs and diagrams. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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