Miller's: Glass Fact File A-Z: Pocket Fact File

by Ivo Haanstra

Book Overview

This guide has almost 6000 entries, identifying more than 2000 glassworks and 1000 designers plus explanations of specialist terms and techniques. Where applicable, marks and labels are included to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840004290
• ISBN13: 9781840004298
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 3.8" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

An Invaluable Guide to Glass Collectors

This slim volume is a storehouse of invaluable information. With over 6,000 entries, GLASS FACT FILE provides the collector with a resource which will be referred to again and again. Besides the entries, there are sections on bottle marks, museums with glass collections, glass collectors' clubs and associations, and Internet resources. The attention to detail in this volume is simply amazing!

Glass: Fact File A-Z by Ivo Haanstra

Contains a mountain of concise, accurate and easy to use data. Small pocket size makes it easy to keep with you at auctions and sales.

Invaluable Glass Reference

Aptly titled "fact file," this is an extraordinary resource for quick and handy information on GLASS in practically every category one might wish to explore (manufacturers, methods and techniques, types and designs, marks and signatures, etc.) Arranged alphabetically (with helpful cross-references), the author has assembled a massive amount of material -- over 6,000 entries! -- covering all aspects of glass world-wide, from the 1800s to the most recent productions. Precise, concise,accurate, and happily affordable, this comprehensive volume is destined to be an indispensable reference source for all students and serious collectors of glass.