(Part 14) Best antiques & collectibles books according to redditors
We found 938 Reddit comments discussing the best antiques & collectibles books. We ranked the 416 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 261-280. You can also go back to the previous section.
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It's not the same yoyo at all.
The original yo-yo is a Lumar Genuine Championship 99.
https://www.amazon.com/Luckys-Collectors-Guide-Century-Yo-Yos/dp/0966761200
*Edit: It looks like the one Capaldi is holding is a Kalmar Trissan but I'm not sure. Definitely not a Lumar. Checking my references and contacts to see for sure.
http://www.amazon.com/MAKING-GRADE-Comprehensive-Grading-Guide/dp/0944945635/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395667442&sr=1-1&keywords=making+the+grade
> In my experience no book is worth a couple hundred.
Then you need more experience.
I sold a book for $299 a couple months ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Custom-Revolver-Hamilton-foreword-Seyfried/dp/0971336601
If you're interested, pick up a few Whitman penny folders and try to fill them. You can get the 1909-1940 and 1941-1974 albums for under $10. Even if you aren't big into collecting, it's always a load of fun to search through and fill the holes. I wouldn't suggest buying from amazon, considering local bookstores, coin shops, and hobby stores have them for the same price, but here is the link to look at it
https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Cents-Folder-1941-1974-Harris/dp/0937458554/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=harris+coin+albums&qid=1557538511&s=gateway&sr=8-3
Start with Gem Identification Made Easy, it is a fun read if you like sciencey things, and detailled enough to serve as a reference book as your knowledge grows.
Perhaps a better title would have actually been "...Made as Easy as
Possible If You Have Proper Instruments", but still a great book. The Gemology Online Forums are pretty good, and the Gemology Project wiki they're working on is a great quick reference.
Look for a local rockhound club, many offer lapidary classes. Learning to cut a stone (faceted or cabochon) only takes a few hours, and expands your understanding dramatically. You might also get a chance to try out a few gemological insturments before you buy them.
I second Coins of England and the United Kingdom by Spink.
Krause is a poor choice for country-specific coins, you'll miss tons of varieties and it seems to be very inconsistent and overall pretty sloppy if you're going on a single coin. Its not bad if you're dealing with coins from different places in the world, but it isn't that great for a single country.
I haven't bought the newest book (I think my most recent copy is actually kinda out of date... maybe from 2005? might have to update it this year!) but at least in my editions it went all the way from Celtic/Roman coins all the way up to the newest decimal issues.
So in terms of relevance these are the best references I've found for British coins:
There's also lots of specialty volumes, particularly for bronze/copper coinage where many collectors collect based on micro-variety (think of the equivalent of Morgan Dollar VAMs)
Your best bet at this point is probably this one:
Collecting & Completing Your GI Joe Figures and Accessories https://www.amazon.com/dp/0974582719/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_aFZOub08T7JT6
Maybe grab the Bellomo kindle edition as well, especially if you have a tablet. It is absolutely wonderful.
Okay, for sci-fi, you have to get The Culture series in. Put Player of Games face out.
I don't read a lot of space books, but Asteroid Hunter by Carrie Nugent is awesome. I mostly have recommendations for spaceflight and spaceflight history, and a lot of these come from listeners to my podcast, so all credit to them.
Honestly, books have helped me more than website. The internet is a great place for knowledge and information sharing, but a good book will tell the whole story and serve as a great reference for years to come.
I would suggest either of these two as starter books:
Collecting Classic Bolt Action Military Rifles
Bolt Action Military Rifles of the World
When you decide to narrow your focus down, there are often specific books that can help you. My book collection has quickly become larger than my milsurp collection--but they paid for themselves. The knowledge I've gained from them has stopped me from getting burned and helped me pick out good deals.
RIC has been out for a long time, is very detailed, but expensive. RIC VIII is the family of Constantine, so would cover the time period of Constans. Sear's millennium series is somewhat less detailed (I have at least a couple of coins which are in RIC but not in Sear), is a bit less expensive per volume (and fewer volumes), but Constans isn't covered until volume V which isn't quite out yet. It should ship this month, though.
Thanks! Very nice coin btw! If you’re looking for a good introductory book on the subject you can do no better than this one:
Standard Catalogue of British Coins, Vol. 1: Coins of England and The United Kingdom. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0900652497/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZdliDb8X1JY61
Actually there is. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0914293710?cache=e030f1dd67bbfe0aa262817c9d336650&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1405066022&sr=8-3#ref=mp_s_a_1_3
Keep in mind, though, Disney releases new pins constantly, many times comlletely unannounced, so its pretty much impossible to catalog everything.
The best place to start is with The Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. It's more than a bit dated, and there have not been enough revisions to it over the decades. Having said that, it's an excellent collection of images and brief descriptions of every kind of extant artifact from the period: cookware, textiles, metalware, ceramics of all sorts, weapons, and so on.
The Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia will give you a baseline to work from. Some of the artifacts (especially the spectacles) actually fall outside the time frame: too late or too early. But all of them are ballpark.
From that baseline, you'll want to then focus more specifically on what sort of material culture interests you. To narrow this down, I'd jump into the prolific website: The Eighteenth Century Material Culture Resource Center. It's a constantly updated site with lots of slideshows that examine specific occupations or types of artifacts.
It sounds to me that you're interested in the militaristic material culture of loyalists. To that end, I'd recommend grabbing yourself a copy of Osperey Publishing's American Loyalist Troops 1775-1783. It's a great introduction to the topic, with uniform illustrations and a few extant artifacts.
Other general guides I'd recommend to military material culture would be Don Troiani's Soldiers of the American Revolution and Neumann's Battle Weapons of the American Revolution.
Hope that helps!
Here's a couple I found on Amazon:
Thank you. They're all lovely covers, especially Bright Shiny Morning.
For more info about pin-up art, and even vintage pulp fiction, these guides may be of interest to readers of this reddit -
www.amazon.co.uk/Great-American-Pin-Up-Charles-Martignette/dp/3836532441/
www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Pin-up-Sarahjane-Blum/dp/383653570X/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0896899683/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1440213577/
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1932595058/
The Instant Coin Collector
Citori? Here, have some traditional gun pr0n: https://www.amazon.ca/Gamefield-Classics-Bill-Headrick/dp/0977855198
Sorry, no clue...very sweet pipes, however. Half of those styles nobody even makes anymore...or has for a long time haha. This book might be able to help.
Pic 8. I'm personal friends with the guy who wrote The Mortimer Gunmakers: 1753 - 1923. His basement is full of guns that look like Pic 8. He let me hold them, but he gave me white gloves to wear.
I'm planning on buying a Pedersoli sawhandle replica eventually, and I want to take him out to the range with me when I do.
That's going to be a tough one to find online. If you're truly interested in errors, you should buy Bart's book:
http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Paper-Money-Errors/dp/0896897141