Description:With over 300 illustrations....Thimbles exist in stone, wood, horn, glass, bone, tortoiseshell, leather bronze, porcelain, gold, silver, pewter, lead, ivory, and a hundred other materials: given the additional variables of nationality, period, and design or manufacturing style, it is obvious that without careful guidance the new, and even the more established, collector will have serious problems in building and shaping a sensibly organized, and thus more valuable, collection.A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO THIMBLES has been devised by one of the world's foremost thimble authorities to provide exactly the sort of professional advice and expertise that will allow collectors to feel their way certainly through the confusing morass of existing information, and to focus their energy and efforts on acquiring precisely the pieces they need to establish a collection that has breadth, unity, substance, beauty and value. In addition the GUIDE supplies practical tips on cataloguing, maintenance, and display that will help any collection to be preserved and presented at its finest, and hard information on dealers, auctions, and buying and selling -- including price guidance -- that will allow even beginners to trade their thimbles confidently.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collectors Guide to Thimbles. To get started finding Collectors Guide to Thimbles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: With over 300 illustrations....Thimbles exist in stone, wood, horn, glass, bone, tortoiseshell, leather bronze, porcelain, gold, silver, pewter, lead, ivory, and a hundred other materials: given the additional variables of nationality, period, and design or manufacturing style, it is obvious that without careful guidance the new, and even the more established, collector will have serious problems in building and shaping a sensibly organized, and thus more valuable, collection.A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO THIMBLES has been devised by one of the world's foremost thimble authorities to provide exactly the sort of professional advice and expertise that will allow collectors to feel their way certainly through the confusing morass of existing information, and to focus their energy and efforts on acquiring precisely the pieces they need to establish a collection that has breadth, unity, substance, beauty and value. In addition the GUIDE supplies practical tips on cataloguing, maintenance, and display that will help any collection to be preserved and presented at its finest, and hard information on dealers, auctions, and buying and selling -- including price guidance -- that will allow even beginners to trade their thimbles confidently.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collectors Guide to Thimbles. To get started finding Collectors Guide to Thimbles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.