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Schiffer Publishers

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These detailed references are essential working price guides for an collector working in the genre, offering exceptionally high-quality color photos and discussions. Hubert & Clara McHugh's Goebel Salt & Pepper Shakers Shakers, popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also called the Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name from the trembling produced by religious emotion, were also known as Alethians.  (0764322281, $29.95) narrows the focus to those shakers produced by Goebel of Germany from the 1920s through the 1980s. Nearly 600 photos display the shakers while discussions of artists, identification numbers, manufacture dates and current values help collectors identify and price Goebel sets. Wendy Mullen's The Comprehensive Guide To Chocolate Molds: Objects Of Art & Artist's Tools (0764322788, $49.95) more than just a collector's price guide, Wendy Mullen, chocolate maker for 15 years, delves Delves is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated a short distance to the south of Consett.  into the history of antique antique. The term has been used collectively to designate classical Greek and Roman works of art, particularly sculptures; as an adjective to indicate an object, a period, or a style of ancient or early times; and as a noun, for objects of art, furniture, rugs,  chocolate molds and their design and production, packing over 1300 photos of such antiques with discussions of all kinds of molds. Topped by an interview with the great-granddaughter of one of the best German mold mold, name for certain multicellular organisms of the various classes of the kingdom Fungi, characteristically having bodies composed of a cottony mycelium. The colors of molds are caused by the spores, which are borne on the mycelium.  specialists in history, Anton Reiche, The Comprehensive Guide To Chocolate Molds is unparalleled in depth and detail: there's simply nothing like it on the market, past or present. Dona Z. Meilach's Teapots: Makers & Collectors (0764322141, $49.95) covers all the new teapots from whimsical whim·si·cal  
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1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary.

2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality.
 and non-functional works of art to practical and collectible collectible

An asset of limited supply that is sought for a variety of reasons including, it is hoped, an increase in value. Stamps, antiques, coins, and works of art are among the many things usually classified as collectibles.
 teapots. Much more than a price guide alone, however, Teapots: Makers & Collectors packs in hundreds of full-page color photos and discussions of unique designs, materials, crafts. Artists in 14 countries are represented in a review which produces both a history and a guide for contemporary collectors.
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Title Annotation:Goebel Salt and Pepper Shakers; The Comprehensive Guide to Chocolate Molds: Objects of Art and Artist's Tools; Teapots: Makers and Collectors
Publication:The Bookwatch
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Oct 1, 2005
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