Antiques & Collectibles | Schiffer Publishing

The British, American and European manufacturers who produced Flow Blue, the exhibitions that promoted it, and the people who owned it and what moved them to buy it are explored here.  America in the nineteenth...

A complete guide to a mainstay of American rural life--the country store--and the many collectibles in spawned. The country store played a central role in the lives of most Americans during the nineteenth and early...

Industrial designs common to nearly every household include toasters. In this book they are presented historically and visually through an amusing text and artistic photographs. The chapters present hundreds of toasters that pinch, whirl, slide,...

The largest, most comprehensive and colorful guide to salt and pepper shakers ever published! A companion volume to The Complete Cookie Jar Book,  The Complete Salt and Pepper Shaker Book shows more than 1,600 sets...

Produced during the occupation of Japan by United States forces from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the end of the occupation in 1952, the items presented in this book have...

Have you every wondered where the nineteenth century country furniture found in today's American antique marketplace came from? It will surprise the reader to learn that much of it came from Quebec, Canada. Warren Johansson...

Innovations in lighting design were rampant in the early decades of the twentieth century when electricity opened a new alternative, and therefore an opportunity, to home furnishing. One of the largest manufacturers of new lighting...

Rediscover every toy and prize you ever pulled out of a Cracker Jack box in this wonderful guide! Comprehensive in scope, toys from the late nineteenth century on up to the 1990s are recorded, representing...

Musical boxes have been made by master artisans since the 1700s, playing classical music, hymns, operatic arias and popular tunes by means of discs or cylinders. The industry started in Europe, flourishing in Switzerland, Germany,...

This new book is everything the toy gun collector could ever wish for, with over 600 full-color photographs of cap guns and gun accessories and a current value guide! Cap guns have been mass-produced since...

From the bronze age to the present, molten metal has been poured into molds to create an infinite variety of forms and to serve a variety of functions. This marriage of form and function is...

Candle powered "fairy lamps" made Victorian and Edwardian homes glow with light, and make modern collectors glow with nostalgia. Over 800 lamps made from 1880 through the 1930s are shown in full color in this...