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	125 Christmas Ornament Patterns for the Scroll Saw - 0764303236 Simple to make, easy to paint, and guaranteed to light up your Christmas tree-this colorful book is filled with ornaments for beginners and pros alike. Using a limited amount of woodworking tools and equipment, each ornament is pictured in easy-to-use, clear patterns with full instructions on how to cut them out on the scroll saw. Plus, Arthur Grover details his unique "painting by area" technique. Once you've mastered it, the possibilities are endless as small improvisations will create new ... $12.51     View Details Add To Cart
	2,000 Years of Chinese Lacquer - 9627101265 An excellent exhibition of Chinese lacquer ranging in date from the Warring States to the Qing dynasty. Includes many rare lacquer Guqin and scholarly essays on the subject. Language: Mandarin Chinese $54.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Legacy in Tramp Art by Clifford A. Wallach - 0764341065 In over 600 color photos, this book presents historical images and introduces newly discovered artists of tramp art, complete with their known biographies. Made from society's discards, primarily wooden cigar boxes and wooden crates, tramp art is the story of the common man, unschooled in the arts, taking a simple tool to carve a legacy from the heart for all of us to enjoy and celebrate. The engaging text tells the personal stories of the creators of tramp art, including Augustus "Gus" Wynn,... $69.99     View Details Add To Cart
	A Treasury of Ming and Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture - 9781588860996 This two-volume set is an important publication in the study of furniture from the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing. Through 30 years of work and research in the Palace Museum, furniture specialist and author Hu Desheng has selected 455 of the most outstanding pieces (or sets) of furniture, illustrated in these volumes in high-quality color photographs. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 introduce the origins, styles and types of furniture from the Ming and Qing palaces, providing a solid overview ... $242.50     View Details Add To Cart
	All Decked Out... Redwood Decks by Tina Skinner - 0764305107 Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living is absolutely packed with more than 200 big, full-color photographs of fabulous decks from around the country, along with plans and building instructions for do-it-yourselfers. These great deck photos serve as a valuable resource for homeowners shopping around for exciting deck ideas. Here you can find ideas for overcoming problem slopes, incorporating treasured trees, encircling spas, creating conversation pits, and enhancing gar... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	American Furniture of the 19th Century, 2nd ed. - 0764310801 "American Furniture of the 19th Century" is an important study of the fine handcrafted furniture made in America between 1840-1880. Most pieces are identified by the cabinetmaker who made them and biographies of the leading cabinetmakers from all over America are presented. There are special sections on wooden desks and John Henry Belter including new, significant information on Belter the man. Most of the examples have not been seen before in any publication. In the book, Mrs. Dubrow explain... $31.49     View Details Add To Cart
	Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies, & Society - 0764316885 The box represents great temptation. "Open me" it says. The human cannot resist it; its charm is overwhelming. So too, is the charm of this remarkable book, in which antique boxes and tea caddies, along with the people who inspired, made, and used them, dance gracefully through the pages. The reader is guided through the aesthetic, cultural, and social influences of the years covered, accumulating a deep understanding of the form, decoration, and purpose of eighteenth and nineteenth century b... $63.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Antique Pocket Mirrors: Pictorial & Advertising Miniatures - 076431646X This delightful compendium of American pocket mirrors showcases more than 500 miniature treasures of early 20th century design. Small celluloid round, oval, and rectangular mirrors were designed as advertising premiums, giveaways, favors, mementos of weddings and anniversaries, souvenirs from historic sites, and so on. Today they are greatly admired for their exquisitely designed graphics, charming Victorian language, and romanticized--indeed often humorous--depiction of commercial products. ... $24.50     View Details Add To Cart
	At Home with Gustav Stickley: Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection - 0918333245 Arguably the finest private collection of early Gustav Stickley furniture During his first years as an Arts and Crafts furniture maker, from about mid-1900 to early 1904, Gustav Stickley and his designers created the most significant cabinetwork his firm would ever produce. For the most part made of quarter-sawn American oak, this furniture was substantial, subtly proportioned, essentially rectilinear, and built using traditional joinery—for instance, tenon and key, dovetail, pinned thro... $25.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Black Forest Bears: Swiss Woodcarvings 1870 - 1920 - 0971385602 Black Forest Bears is a tribute to the woodcarvers of Brienz, Switzerland. Included is a brief history that follows the industry from its start through Christian Fischer on to the London World Expo and the 19th century heyday though its 20th century demise and current status. Carver catalogs are reproduced. The true value of the book lies in the pictures of numerous bear related carvings. Typically each piece is depicted in a full page color photograph which captures the carvings details quit... $44.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Butter Molds and Stamps: A Guide to American Manufacturers - 0970237898 The most definitive book on American butter molds and butter stamps and their manufacturers. Includes a Photo Identifier and an Updated Value Guide. Butter Molds & Stamps provides a wealth of information about 150 different butter molds and butter stamps, many of them never before documented. It will help you identify the molds and stamps in your collection, and who made them. A critical resource book for all collectors, dealers and museum curators $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Butter Prints and Molds by Paul E. Kindig - 0887400582 Butter Prints and Molds is the first and a most comprehensive work on wooden butter shapers, a subject of interest to many folk art authorities and collectors. While working as a Specialist in History for the Museum of Michigan State University, the author, Paul Kindig, examined and photographed all of the major museum collections in the United States and Many private collections. The author has also visited numerous museums in Europe and compared their butter prints and molds with the Americ... $31.95     View Details Add To Cart

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