No comments about Colors in Cambridge Glass - Updated Values.

3 comments about Stemware Identification: Featuring Cordials With Values, 1920S-1960s.

1. Some of the pictures have a light background, making the etchings difficult/impossible to make out. Since the book is ordered by color, the same pattern appears several times. About 10% of the entries are labeled as "Unidentified". Only information is Company, Line, Pattern, Color pictured, height, and price. Would be nice to have (when available) the range of years produced, colors produced, etc. Was able to identify some of my pieces, though. A bargain book buy only.



2. Excellent photography as well as array of displayed items. Unlike many other reference books, the reader can easily see the pattern on the glass bowl. The etched, cut, pattern does not blend with the background. I hope the author compiles a similar book on other stemware; i.e. water goblets, wines, etc. I love my book and would like a similar reference book on other styles of stems.



3. We have several of Mr.Florence's books, and in each case, the photos are what make it. He and his team go to great lengths to assemble and light the glass we are looking at and looking for. He has helped us both match and bypass glass we were not sure of. We'll buy again...

No comments about Collecting Lalique: Perfume Bottles & Glass.

No comments about Legend of Bohemian Glass: A Thousand Years of Glassmaking in the hearth of E.

1 comments about The Art of Glass: The Toledo Museum of Art.

1. The Toledo Museum of Art was founded in 1901 by Edward Drummond Libbey shortly after he moved his thriving glassmaking business to the Ohio city from Boston. Along with the Old Master paintings, Egyptian antiquities, and other types of more or less conventional art and relics sought by most museums in this period, the Toledo Museum also concertedly engaged in collecting many pieces of art in glass in accordance with Libbey's interests and wishes. About two years ago, a Glass Pavilion for the storage and exhibition of the sizable and growing glass collection was added to the original Museum. As the numerous skillful color photographs demonstrate, the Museum's Pavilion has many choice, exquisite pieces from all eras and places around the world ranging from the utilitarian to the sheerly aesthetic. This art book tied in with the opening of the new Pavilion arranges much of the collection chronologically from the ancient Mediterannean cultures through the Renaissance and Baroque to the early 20th century with the insertion of one chapter on glass in the Islamic world. A last chapter displays art glass works by artists of the past few decades. Many readers will be struck by how some of the artists, especially from more modern and contemporary times, use glass as a medium for sculpture with dramatic shapes and colors.

No comments about Paden City Glassware (Schiffer Book for Collectors).

5 comments about Anchor Hocking's Fire-King & More.

1. Author/Photographer Gene Florence has produced a fan-tastic book for the Fire-King novice or afficianado. Just a warning, though: This is a 1998 book. The gain in collectibilia and accessibilty wrought by the Internet, along with standard inflation, has rendered the pricing rather dicey to rely on.

   If you are a Boomer, this is most likely the stuff of fond memories of your Momma's kitchen. Just looking at the picture of the Jane Ray Jade-ite platter (who knew that that was our hamburger cook-out platter's formal name?) makes my mouth water! On page 7, there is a reproduction of an old Anchor-Hocking ad: "Not a single item on this page costs more than 69 cents." Those were the days! It's come a long way! Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer.




2. This book has more than paid for itself in helping me recognize fire king and genuine old glass.

   Until I purchased Gene Florence's book, I used black & white reference books. Those are useless to me.

   This wonderful book has helped me determine if shaker lid and fireking flour piece went together (did not-flour shaker originally had a flat shaker lid the color of the writing on side not silver aluminum); if the "yellow" plate in a fire king design was old (was not (did not come in yellow) - but that yellow piece was made from fire king mold - one step up from out and out reproduction); and whether or not my 10 pieces of bakeware (some with lids) and marked Fire King were rare or reproductions. On the 10 piece baking set, I ended up e-mailing Gene Florence, and he responded that my piece was not rare - or did it even appear anywhere. The pieces are selling Very slowly - so they must not be very special.

   The book is difficult to understand how to match pricing & pictures at first, but well worth the effort. I am comfortable with the process now.
   
   If you collect or sell fire king - you need this book!




3. For the most part this book is an excellent resource for identifing Fire-King glassware and I would recommend it highly along with all of the author's other books. I own them all! As a specialist collector of the Anchor Hocking Early American Prescut pattern (10000pcs), I must say that I feel that some of the Prescut items listed are somewhat rarer than the book would suggest. There are also quite a few more items available in this particular pattern than are listed. I view the book's section on Prescut as another of this well known author's courageous attempts to chart previously uncharted waters and I'm sure that subsequent editions of this book will include course corrections.



4. Another winner for Gene Florence. Wouldn't be without his books. Beautiful, color pictures on nearly every page. I have read this book and all of his others over and over again.



5. This is my first purchase of reference material for my new hobby of depression-glass collecting. I found the pictures to be exellent, and the price guides informative, although a bit awkward to use at times. His comparisons of similar items are helpful, and the book is worth purchase for the pictures alone. Hope to compare it with the Kilgo book someday.

No comments about The Joy of Collecting Perfume Bottles: Monsen and Baer Perfume Bottle Auction XII.

No comments about Fenton Glass: The Third 25 Years.

1 comments about Collecting American Brilliant Cut Glass, 1876-1916.

1. Well written book. Good price. Lots of useful information for identifying different patterns. Would have liked more information on fake reproductions.