Blue and white ironstone dinnerware has been collected for many years, and the introduction of the Liberty Blue pattern in 1975 by Enoch Wedgwood of England, with its fifteen different historic scenes of colonial America, brought forth keen interest. Here the Old North Church, Minutemen, West Point, Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, and many more historic sites are shown. The Liberty Blue promotion coincided with America's Bicentennial celebrations, causing more people to become interested in own...
In a light-hearted look at how 20th century designers have transformed this everyday item into an object of desire, Woodham discusses how shape, size, colour and ma terials are used in kettle design, and asks whether there is an ultimate kettle. '
Early American Cast Iron Holloware 1645-1900: Pots, Kettles, Teakettles, and Skillets
by John Tyler
An invaluable information source about cast iron holloware of the pre-Griswold and Wagner era for collectors, museum curators, reenactors, and hearth cooking aficionados. It is the first book to document cast iron pots, skillets, spiders, pans, kettles, teakettles, Dutch ovens, and mortars, plus several items in brass, from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, spanning the years 1645 to 1900. Over 350 photos illustrate identifiable changes in the manufacturing technologies and the vesse...
An indispensible reference for anyone interested in salt and pepper shakers, compiled by two of America's foremost collectors. This book focuses on Black Americana, cat characters, mermaids, and Niagra Falls, with color photographs of over 1500 available items. A comprehensive guide, it includes color, size, and design variations of many pieces. A thorough price guide is provided to assist collectors on their hunts for these charming pieces.
E. L. Parker & Co. Tinners' Tools & Supplies, Baltimore 1868
by E L Parker
Anchor Hocking's Fire-King & More (Anchor Hocking's Fire-King & More)
by Gene Florence and Cathy Florence
The more than 3,500 items in this unique private collection of cutlery, illustrated with 450 large colour plates, present the expert and the amateur with an outstanding survey of the changing shapes of eating implements from the palaeolithic to the twentieth century. The complete collection is divided into three parts:- Part 1 covers cutlery from prehistoric times to the seventeenth/eighteenth century. Part 2 unites 'table-ware' from the eighteenth century to the classicist period, which means c...