114 Antique : ironstone • sponge & spatterware • cottage ware • chintz • oyster plates • utilitarian

INTernational antique pottery: ironstone Hand-Painted Plates: 19th The Complete Cookie Jar Book. Revised White Ironstone China: Plate Identification Century to the Present. Richard Rendall & 5th Edition. Mike Schneider. The most complete Guide 1840-1890. Ernie & Bev Dieringer. The Elise Abrams. 675+ color photos display lovely book on the subject ever published: contains identification of English white ironstone plates or- portraits, romantic landscapes and city scenes, extensive research, organized by both subject ganized by shapes made from 1840 to 1890. The still-life paintings, and floral arrangements on and by artists and dozens of companies, including 327 color photos and 252 drawings of plates, rims, 19th and 20th century hand-painted porcelain McCoy, American Bisque, Hull, and many others. potters’ marks and registry marks are easy to compare. plates by Davenport, Doulton, Camille Le Tall- Plus, information on distributors, importers, and Copper Lustre and Tea Leaf decorations are included. ec, Meissen, Minton, Sèvres, and . retailers, along with guidelines to condition, Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 327 color photos Includes histories of the makers, marks, values, counterfeits, and production techniques. 252 drawings • Price Guide/Index • 160 pp. and an index. Size: 9" x 12" • 2000+ color photos ISBN: 0-7643-1227-8 • soft cover • $29.95 Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 678 color photos Price Guide • 300 pp. Price Guide/Index • 240 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2308-3 • soft cover • $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-7643-1692-0 • hard cover • $59.99 White Ironstone, A Survey of its Many Antique Toothbrush Holders. John, Nancy, Forms: Undecorated, Flow Blue, Mul- A Collector’s Guide to Souvenir Plates. Arene & Brooke Smith. The whole range of the holders, berry, Copper Lustre. Dawn Stoltzfus & Burgess. Color photos illustrate this survey of souvenir with hundreds of the most sought after designs Jeffrey B. Snyder. In this alphabetic listing of plates dating back to the 1880s. Prominent potters portrayed in over 400 full color photos. Includes all known shapes in plain, Flow Blue, Mulberry, such as Adams & Company, Wedgwood, and Wood examples in ironstone, porcelain, bisque, glass, and Copper Lustre decorations, the makers are and Sons are included. Short histories are given for chalkware, celluloid, plastic, and lithographed tin. featured with more than 700 color photos to each manufacturer or importer to which specific Concise captions include size, material, maker easily identify pieces and show details never views are attributed. (when known), and an estimate of the value on seen in print before. Size: 6" x 9" • 564 color photos the current collectors market. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 700 color photos Price Guide/Index • 224 pp. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 400+ color photos Price Guide • 176 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0099-7 • soft cover • $19.95 Price Guide • 160 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0326-0 • soft cover • $34.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1654-0 • soft cover • $29.95

INT'L pottery: spongeware & Spatterware Popular Souvenir Plates. Monica Lynn Clem- Teapots by Design: A Collector’s Cat- ents & Patricia Rosser Clements. Souvenir plates alogue. Unjeria C. Jackson. Over 445 color Spongeware and Spatterware. Revised & Expanded from the 1880s through the present shown in photos display a wide range of teapots from 3rd Edition. Kevin McConnell. Spongeware and spatterware over 530 color photographs of souvenir plates antique to contemporary, including porcelain, is colorful country pottery of the 18th-20th centuries that depicting all fifty states, Canada, and Europe by semiporcelain, , silver, copper, brass, remains popular with today’s collectors. Here is clear insight American, English and European firms. iron, pewter, tin, wood, and glass. Teapot forms into the history and development of the wares and over Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 534 color photos include children’s and full-sized tea sets, min- 200 examples of spongeware and spatterware illustrated Price Guide • 176 pp. iatures, musical, figural, whimsical, seasonal, in color photos with complete information. ISBN: 0-7643-0535-2 • soft cover • $29.95 advertising, commemorative, and souvenir Size: 6’’ x 9’’ • 200 color photos teapots. Values are included. Price Guide • 128 pp. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 449 color photos ISBN: 0-7643-1219-7 • soft cover • $16.95 Price Guide • 160 pp. int'l antique pottery: oyster plates ISBN: 0-7643-2325-3 • hard cover • $29.95 Spongeware, 1835-1935: Makers, Marks & Patterns. Henry E. Kelly and Arnold & Dorothy Collecting Oyster Plates. Jeffrey B. Snyder. Teapots: Makers & Collectors. Dona Kowalsky. 975+ color photos display spongeware Oyster plates produced in porcelain, majolica, Z. Meilach. Dona Z. Meilach tackles the tablewares, serving pieces, tea sets, children’s sets, , English ironstone, and French stoneware burgeoning activity of teapot making and vases produced in Scotland, England, Europe, and are displayed in over 475 color photographs, and collecting with over 450 dazzling North America. Includes identifications of patterns along with oyster platters and servers. Plates color images of teapots from fourteen and potters, their marks, and a bibliography. Current dating from the mid-nineteenth through the countries and over 200 artists. Some market values are provided. late-twentieth century are displayed. Company of the ceramic, silver, mixed metals, Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • over 975 color photos histories and current values are included. glass, wood, and teapots are not Price Guide • 244 pp. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 478 color photos functional, but they are fun. ISBN: 0-7643-1270-7 • hard cover • $59.95 Price Guide • 160 pp. Size: 11" x 8 1/2" • 450 color photos • ISBN: 0-7643-1481-5 • soft cover • $29.95 Index • 248 pp. international antique pottery: cottage ware ISBN: 0-7643-2214-1 • hard cover • $49.95 Oyster Plates. Vivian and Jim Karsnitz. A rarity Cottage Ware: Ceramic Tableware Shaped guide and color photographs display nearly 500 The Shaving Mug and Barber Bottle Book. As Buildings, 1920s-1990s. Eileen Rose Busby. different oyster plates and oyster serving utensils Keith E. Estep. 682 color photos of personalized Charming building-shaped jugs, cookie jars, mugs, from fashionable homes and restaurants. The shaving mugs, barber bottles and condiment sets, breakfast dishes and more. 100+ text includes a history of oyster fishing and that made the historical barbershop a center color and b/w photos of over 350 different cottage oyster eating, and contains information about of the community. Many items from important ware items. They are alphabetically grouped by oyster plate manufacturers from Limoges and private collections, some seen as American their makers. Meissen to Wedgwood. folk art. Important tips and current prices for Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 355 color & 66 b/w photos Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 464 color photos collectors are included. Price Guide/Index • 96 pp. Rarity Guide • 160 pp. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 682 photos ISBN: 0-7643-1745-8 • soft cover • $29.95 ISBN: 0-88740-529-0 • soft cover • $29.95 Price Guide • 240 pp. ISBN: 0-88740-761-7 • hard cover • $69.95

utilitartian pottery The Best of Shaving Mugs. Keith Estep. international antique pottery: chintz Hand-painted and photographic occupational, China Toothpick Holders. Judy Knauer and fraternal, and decorative shaving mugs were a Chintz Ceramics. Revised and Expand- Sandra Raymond. 600+ color photos showcase common feature in barber shops in the nineteenth ed 3rd Edition. Jo Anne Peterson Welsh. porcelain toothpick holders from around the and early twentieth centuries. Now they are valued 100+ floral patterns in over 400 full-color world. Many manufacturer’s marks are also antiques, often bringing several thousands of photos, including those from English man- shown. Information on contemporary and repro- dollars. Here are over 1000 of the best shaving ufacturers Royal Winton, James Kent, Lord duction toothpick holders is included, as well as mugs in the world. Each is fully described with a Nelson, Shelley, Crown Ducal, Empire, and tips on collecting, displaying, and insuring your current estimate of its market value. more, plus American and Japanese makers. collection. The most complete reference available. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 1012 color photos Size: 11" x 81/2" • 475 color photos Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 725 color photos & illustrations Price Guide • 240 pp. Price Guide/Index • 160 pp. • Price Guide • 176 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1235-9 • hard cover • $89.95 ISBN: 0-7643-0982-X • hard cover • $39.95 ISBN: 0-7643-2045-9 • hard cover • $39.95 Mustache Cups: Timeless Victorian Trea- int'l antique pottery: specialty plates Animal Pitchers. Debbie and Randy Coe. sures. Pauline C. Peck & Glenn Erardi. This 100s of animal-shaped ceramic pitchers book brushes away the myths and mystery of The ABC’s of ABC Ware. Davida & Irving Ship- shown in 200+ color photos with mea- once-common mustache cups. Whether they kowitz. Twenty-six alphabetically arranged chapters surements, colors, manufacturer, date are dainty miniatures or hefty farmers’ cups; examine the graphics found on children’s alphabet made, and current market value. Over 30 European or American ceramics, silver, pottery ware, along with fascinating histories of the nineteenth different animal types are included, from or various metals, mustache cups are presented century firms that produced it. Ceramic plates, metal alligators to yaks, representing international here in over 600 color photos with descriptions table and flatware, glass dishes, and mugs all reflect ceramics manufacturers from the Americas, and price guide. Victorian era styles. Europe, and Asia. Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 631 color & 17 b/w photos Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 1027 color & 35 b/w photos Size: 9" x 6" • 201 color photos Price Guide/Index • 176 pp. Price Guide & Index • 288 pp. Price Guide • 224 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0924-2 • hard cover • $49.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1537-4 • hard cover • $69.95 ISBN: 0-7643-2385-7 • soft cover • $19.95