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Art Glass: Identification & Price Guide
by John A., III Shuman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Krause Publications (2003-08)
ISBN: 0873496760
EAN: 9780873496766
UPC: 046081006760
Dewy Decimal #: 748
Paperback: 256 pages
Condition: New
Comments: 2003, 256 pages, Paperback, Book is in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) Fast Service. Books well packed and mailed USPS with Delivery Confirmation.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Daring designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Ren Lalique are remembered for their intricate pattern creations with glass that pushed the evolution of design. These entrancingly beautiful masterpieces of yesterday are commanding high prices in today's antiques and collectibles marketplace. Author John Shuman III gives art glass collectors the helpful advice they need from bidding techniques at auctions and detecting fakes and frauds, to protecting valuables. With the aid of this identification and price guide they'll obtain a collection they can be proud to display. Valuable information and current market prices are included for Baccarat, Custard Glass, Durand Art Glass, Fairy Lamps, Kimball Glass, Lalique, Loetz, Tiffany, and much more. Readers will confidently identify collectible pieces with the more than 300 color images, illustrations, and vintage advertisements. They'll peruse original advertisements from sale catalogues and marvel at the progression of some of the most highly sought after art glass pieces from popular manufacturers. * Author John Shuman, III shares valuable tips and techniques on securing unbeatable deals * Identifies and values hundreds of popular art glass pieces * Vintage ads display original prices
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Customer Reviews
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Disorganized, but some very good pictures
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-05-11
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I agree with the other review in that this book is definitely set up in a way that I found illogical...it mixes makers and types of glass from page to page, and while the approach is alphabetical, it really doesn't make any kind of sense. However, I feel, at a bare minimum, that the book is a very nice color picture book of many, many very nice pieces of glass. I purchased from an Ebay seller, and for the price I paid I am more than completely pleased with it.
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good author bad book
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-11-10
17 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
The author has given us some good, maybe great, books on glass in the past. However this is not one.
I found it disorganized and exceedingly unclear. In discussing it with others we were amazed, maybe apalled, to see christmas ornaments - 20th century dime store novelties- in an art glass book! And he never tells us what he believes elevates them (or several other questionable topical sections) into the historically rarified realm of Art Glass. The photos are muddy, at times out of focus, and randomly scattered through the text as if they were not to correlate to what is being discussed in print. It's just not up the the quality we've come to expect from this author. Sorry- There are better books that address this subject available.
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