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This book acts as a guide for aspiring antiques enthusiasts, teaching the methods to investigate and assess antiques. Judith Miller provides a systematic approach to examining furniture, ceramics, glass, and metalware.
The book provides the reader with starting principles that they can use to examine objects, such as how a piece was constructed and decorated. It compares similar pieces from different countries and contrasts high-quality examples with inferior ones. It also explores suspicious characters and lines up a series of accomplices, offering a comprehensive toolkit for the antiques detective. The reader will find themselves inspecting crime scenes and learning to identify wear and tear. This book helps the reader build the skills and knowledge to discern value.
Used (good, see images, some initial pages folding) Softcover ISBN 9781405341
