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The collector's guide to buying antique furniture.The COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE FURNITURE has been specifically designed to give all the essential information the buyer needs - quickly, simply and clearly. It shows you how to assess a piece just as a dealer would. This guide covers more than 50 designs in detail - the classic types that have been most influential and imitated and those most likely to confront us in a shop or saleroom.This first-class handbook is designed to show the changing styles of English furniture as well as sections on country and cottage furniture, practice of repair, characteristics of different woods and a useful glossary of terms. The COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE FURNTIURE should be the first investment any buyer of antiques ought to make.
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Buying Antique Furniture, Rachael Feild
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Buying Antique Furniture
- Subtitle
- Authenticity, Copies, Restoration, Dating, Reproduction, Prices - New Edition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Rachael Feild
- Publisher
- BLACK CAT
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 180
- ISBN10
- 0316907200
- ISBN13
- 9780316907200
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Hobby, Design
- Description
- The collector's guide to buying antique furniture.The COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE FURNITURE has been specifically designed to give all the essential information the buyer needs - quickly, simply and clearly. It shows you how to assess a piece just as a dealer would. This guide covers more than 50 designs in detail - the classic types that have been most influential and imitated and those most likely to confront us in a shop or saleroom.This first-class handbook is designed to show the changing styles of English furniture as well as sections on country and cottage furniture, practice of repair, characteristics of different woods and a useful glossary of terms. The COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO BUYING ANTIQUE FURNTIURE should be the first investment any buyer of antiques ought to make.