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Douglas Congdon-Martin
The first fifty years of Camel advertising and packaging shown in color photos that capture rich images used to promote Camel goods. The captions and informative text explain details and…
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The magic of the Hawaiian Islands has captivated the hearts and imaginations of visitors for over 200 years. The infectious Aloha Spirit is something they take home with them not…
History of the Hathaway Shirt Company.
A survey of the Arts & Crafts movement in California featuring items from a popular, year-long exhibition at the California Heritage Museum. Sections on furniture, lighting and accessories, metal wares…
Pottery making among the Pueblo Indians.
From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms from formal studio photos and advertising images to folk art and…
Sandpainting has its origin in the religious tradition and practice of the Navajo people. Over 400 sandpaintings, from the most traditional to the newest forms, are illustrated here in full…
The Arts & Crafts Movement found expression in art, metalwork, pottery, textiles, and furniture. This new book explores the Arts & Crafts Movement on both sides of the Atlantic focusing…
A photo archive derived from Gustav Stickley’s glass negatives, now in the collection of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, and reprinted here for the first time. Many have never before…
A comprehensive, well-researched look at milk glass produced from the 1930s through 1984 by the Imperial Glass Corporation of Bellaire, Ohio. Includes a brief historical perspective, the wide variety of…
Thoreau once described Cape Cod as the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts …boxing with northeast storms. It still stands vigilant, but today it is better known for its beauty…
Stained glass has long been a part of domestic architecture, but in the late 1800s its popularity soared. In part, this was due to new manufacturing techniques and distribution networks…
Ads were put on everything from pocket mirrors to memo pads, the sides of barns to the sides of carriages and buses. Here is advertising in all its media-tin, paper…
This will give insight into the creativity of designers of cast iron which allowed mundane objects of life to become interesting works of art and fancy. From doorstops to doorknockers…
The wide range of Royal Bayreuth lines, with over 500 beautiful and detailed color photographs the strawberry, tomato, lobster, and other figural pottery lines. Also well-represented are the Tapestry lines…
This book is for all lovers of stained glass windows and doors. For the collector and connoiseur it covers the wide ranging glass that is available in the antique market…
South Beach, at Miami, Florida, has it all: sand, sun, surf, beautiful people, stylish fashions, architecture from the height of American Art Deco to the most modern renderings of steel…
The bygone tools and products of America’s drugstores are illustrated in color and described, from apothecary jars to patent medicines and mortars and pestles to leech jars. Soda fountain dispensers…
The first color reference on tobacco tins shows over 1000 and reveals the designer’s and the lithographer’s art over many generations. It includes much tobacco company advertising and ephemera.
Jerry Terranova,Douglas Congdon-Martin
For the pleasure and convenience of cigar smokers, a wide variety of smoking accessories were manufactured, including cigar cutters and lighters. This text places cigars in their historical context, shows…
A compendium of cigar related stuff , from the old cigars in their original wrappers still ready to smoke to the fine humidors that have kept them fresh for decades…
Douglas Congdon-Martin,Tina Skinner
Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch – melamine bowls were pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun themes, iced tea was served in sweaty spun…
Douglas Congdon-Martin,Jim Pieper
An extensive collection of beautiful masks from around the world are displayed in beautiful color. Powerful in their forms, masks from nearly every continent are represented and organized by country…
Theodore Toatley,Douglas Congdon-Martin
This new book offers a broad survey of the traditional sculpture that is available to collectors, pieces that are in the marketplace. The sculpture shown here focuses on masks, statuary…
Jesse Marth,Douglas Congdon-Martin
Schiffer Fashion Press launches its inaugural LookBook with Fall/Winter 2013 runway looks from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Ideal for identifying trends in colour, fabric, embellishment, styling, and silhouette, here are images…
Frank Pozsgai
A master scroll sawyer presents this easy-to-understand step-by-step guide for creating cutout pictures, flat or in relief. Learn how to cut out a pair of wolves under a moonlit, mountainous…
Douglas Congdon-Martin,Bob Biondi
Nearly 600 fixtures, products and advertising from old time American country stores are illustrated, plus historical photographs of the stores themselves and the people who worked in them. Many date…
Tom Wolfe,Douglas Congdon-Martin
Tom’s premier work on carving Santa Claus, elves, gnomes, and wizards. These fanciful, delightful characters come to life at his hands. He shares skills and projects that are perfect for…
Hundreds of ordinary household items originally found for sale at the country store are presented here in beautiful color. Antiques all can relate to include kitchen, bath, and table wares…
Douglas Congdon-Martin,Douglas Congdon-Martin,John Kashmanian
From its earliest days in the mid-1800s, baseball has had a warm place in the heart of American men and women. So it was natural for them to keep mementos…
Woodspirits carved in the traditional Bavarian style made lively and creative by Tom’s creative touch. Each Woodspirit springs from a unique piece of wood, but the technique and the sequence…
Mark Cooper,Douglas Congdon-Martin
Nearly every baseball-related board or table game produced from the 1860s to the 1960s is illustrated here with accurate captions that describe each one individually. The relationship between the board…
Frank Pozsgai,Douglas Congdon-Martin
Frank Pozsgai brings his unique knowledge and artistic ability to create 3-D scroll patterns that will delight the craftsperson. The main project is Santas sleigh and nine reindeer. The step-by-step…
The Furniture Society
The movement to buy locally, which has gained momentum in the areas of produce and food, is now spreading to arts and crafts. Through the work of over seventy contemporary…
Edward C. Kvetco,Douglas Congdon-Martin
Explore the world of coffee antiques with over 500 color photographs illustrating more than a thousand items. From grinders to coffee cans, posters to coffee makers, this is a varied…
Martin Douglas Longdon
Monterey furniture originated in 1929, in response to California’s Spanish Revival architecture. Today, this high quality, beautifully designed and decorated furniture is much sought after by collectors. In this book…
