Description: This new third edition of Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass is loaded with updated information and a guide to current values. This invaluable guide is not only a basic reference but an identification tool that can be taken to auctions, shows, exhibits, and antique shops. In it Bill and Louise Boggess give the beginning and advanced cut glass collector or dealer many indispensible facts, research, and information not before available: the catalog names for various shapes in cut glass and the identity of 280 patterns of American and Canadian glass by catalog name, patterns not previously identified. It points out 130 cut glass pieces by company signature, patent record, and magazine advertisement.In addition, this revised edition shows you how to analyze a pattern by finding the miter outline and matching it and the motifs to an illustration or picture in a catalog or book. It gives practical advice for buying and collecting unidentified pieces and answers questions on acid polish, repairs, investments, insurance, upgrading, and selling a collection.The 888 exquisite photographs were taken expressly for this book. No collector, dealer, or appraiser will want to be without Bill and Louise Boggess's Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass, an important companion volume to their other classic works Collecting American Brilliant Cut Glass, 1876-1916 and Reflections on American Brilliant Cut Glass, both published by Schiffer Publishing., 920 photos, 6" x 9", Value Guide SC, 2005, 274 pp.
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Book Title: Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Item Length: 8.5in
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, The Limited
Publication Year: 1996
Type: Ceramic Bulletin
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.5in
Author: Bill Boggess, Louise Boggess
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Glass & Glassware
Item Width: 8.5in
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Number of Pages: 274 Pages