1 comments about Miller's: Pottery: Antiques Checklist (Miller's Antiques Checklist).

1. This book is more than just a price book. It uses a series of questions to help you nail down just what you are looking at. In the BASICS section you find the different types of glazes as Lead glaze, Tin glaze, and Salt glaze. The book is small enough that I carry this with me.

   Some of the highlights are:

   Uses a unique question-and -answer approach to help you identify and date genuine antique glass

   Deals with fakes, copies, condition and other factors that may confuse even experienced collectors

   Analyses typical items that collectors can find in shops and auction houses

   Gives Guidelines to values

   Contains a wealth of background information, including an extensive glossary

   Is a thorough introductory course for the beginner and also a superb refresher for those with some collecting experience.

No comments about Pottery of the Islamic World: In the Tareq Rajab Museum.

1 comments about Collectors Guide to Banks Identification & Values: Identification & Values : Pottery, Porcelain, Composition (Collector's Guide to).

1. This 224 page book contains over 800 full color, sharp, large photos of pottery, porcelain and composition banks from 60 manufacturers. The banks are grouped by maker, ranging from Adria Art, American Bisque and Applause, to McCoy Pottery, Regal China and Royal Copley, to United Feature Syndicate, Walt Disney and Warner Brothers. Prices are updated to 1998. It is completely indexed to facilitate locating items. A useful guide for collectors of these items.

1 comments about Watt Pottery: A Collector's Reference With Price Guide.

1. For a book on Watt Pottery, this book is an excellent value and well worth your time and energy. I had to special order mine, and it took a while to get to me, but I was very happy with it.

No comments about Marks of American Potters.

3 comments about Talking Pots: Deciphering the Symbols of a Prehistoric People : A Study of the Prehistoric Pottery Icons of the White Mountains of Arizona.

1. I own most of Cunkle's books and they are very interesting and readable. Interesting content and explanations.



2. Talking Pots is a book with an aggressive scope, suggesting that the deciphering of the meanings of prehistoric pottery can be made clear in 174 pages. Of course the stated purpose is to alert ceramicists to the potentials of symbols and symbol combinations (page 18), but ceramicists already know this. The book then proceeds to provide interpretations for many bowls and provide definitions of symbols so that apparently any layman picking up the book may use it to gain an understanding of the intended messaging within the bowl. No doubt prehistoric Puebloan bowls contained symbols and complex messaging, but there is no way that outsiders to those cultures are going to be able to actually determine the intended meanings and know the interpretations are even remotely correct from this book, but the fact that no one is around to debate you makes it seem easy. This assumes, of course, that Cunckle's identification of the symbols is correct in the first place. Identifying iconography is one thing and often dubious with prehistoric icons, but understanding the iconology, the beliefs associated with the images, is a whole other matter. It is interesting to note how easily we can apparently decipher prehistoric images, the images of a culture totally unlike our own, of a culture whose language we don't know and most assuredly do not speak. And then of course Cunckle shows how easily the same rules and symbols to interpret White Mountain wares can be carried other to interpret other types of pottery from other groups such as the Mimbres - as if all Puebloan peoples conveyed information in the same manner and used the same symbols. A brief look at Hopi, Zuni, and Eastern Pueblos' works clearly shows this is not the case, that Hopi symbolism does not translate directly into Zuni such that a Zuni could look at a Hopi bowl and ever actually understand it without first knowing Hopi culture inherently. Buy the book and enjoy it for what it is, a fun read. Do not take the interpretations too seriously. Many of the whimsical and crudely drawn cartoons should alert readers to the lack of seriousness of the addressed issues.



3. AFTER READING THIS BOOK I FELT LIKE I COULD ALMOST READ POTS I HAVE SEEN IN MUSEUMS. THE GRAPHICS BREAK DOWN THE POT DESIGNS SO YOU CAN SEE THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS. AN ELEMENT CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT SW ART. ONCE I WAS ABLE TO SEE THEM I BEGAN TO GET A FEEL FOR THE ARTISTS INTENTIONS. I USE THIS INFO EACH TIME I SEE A SW DESIGN.

No comments about Pottery in the making: A handbook for teachers and individual workers.

3 comments about Royal Doulton Bunnykins Collectors Book.

1. I wish I had read the first review of the book more closely. I have just begun to collect Bunnykin figures and hoped to get a book with more information on the different figures. This book only has four pages of figures listed and this includes information for Shapeware. It is quite helpful in letting me know that there is so much more out there in the Bunnykins world. If you wish to collect ALL aspects of the Bunnykin world, then this book is for you.



2. The story behind the Bunnykins creator was very interesting. Included were great colour photos of the various scenes depicted on the dinnerware. Unfortunately, the book provided almost no information on the bunnykins figurines, nor did it offer any guidelines for the value($) of pieces.



3. Beautiful colored bunnykins scenes (approx 300)on Royal Doulton Bunnykins plates, mugs, and bowls etc. Great information for collectors, especially if bidding for items in auctions. Artist's names listed with introduction dates.

No comments about Church Tiles of the Nineteenth Century (Shire Library).

1 comments about Mintons Tiles.

1. The book is advertised as having 56 pages, but as 24 pages are blank on one side, this is misleading - ie only 32 printed pages.
   Many of the illustrations of the tiles are very small.