Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30293 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-05
• Binding: Hardcover
• 600 pages

Synopsis
Valuing collectables is quick & easy with this new edition of the UK's bestselling all-colour collectables price guide from Judith Miller. This book showcases over 5,000 collectables including current hot buys; from beautiful Fenton glass and vintage handbags, to Wild West memorabilia. It contains hints on where & how to buy & sell, plus tips on what makes certain items more desirable than others, will prove invaluable. The easiest way to find out if you're sitting on a fortune! "Super-easy to use, may save or make you a bob or two." - 5-Star rating, "Web User Magazine".

Customer Reviews

Collectables Heaven!
Throroughly enjoyed this book. I've got quite a few of the 'Miller's Collectables Price Guides', but this Dorling Kindersley's version is a far clearer, and easier to read publication. It is also all in colour. The 'collectors' notes' throughout I found really helpful. This DK version gives us price guides etc., on more everyday type items, which most of us are more likely to have in our possession.

I give the guide top marks. Well worth having.

Judith Millers Collectables 2004
I bought this book because I was starting to pick up bits and pieces from junk shops and was curious to know if they were worth anything. I found it very interesting and well laid out & it sent me off searching for items that caught my eye! As a result I'm now addicted to internet auction sites! Judith explains things informatively, simply and most importantly in a non patronising manner. I also lost count of the amount of times I said to myself " I used to have one of those I wish I'd kept it". Highly recommended!

A Very Comprehensive Price Guide!
Although i am not a collector as such, old antiques and things interest me a lot, and when i managed to borrow a copy of this book from a friend i had good time looking trough it.

This is an extreamly comprehensive book which has some great pictures of every item, along with a very detailed description which is easy to understand. Overall there are over 5,000 items listed, which appear in the following catagories: Advertising, Antiques, Autographs. Automobilia, Books, Cameras, Canes, Ceramics, Comics, Commemorative ware, Dog Collars, Film Memrobilia, Glass, Jewlery, Kitchen & Domestic, Mechanical Music, Medical Instruments, Militaria, Oil lamps, Optical, Oriental, Pens & Writing Equiptment, Plastics, Posters, Prints, Rock & Pop Memrobilia, Scent Bottles, Science & Technology, Silver, Smoking Collectables, Space Memrobilia, Sporting Collectables, Textiles, Tools, Toys & Games, Watches, and finally Wine & Drinking Collectables, to name but a few. Also, along the right hand side of the page there is an A-Z collum so finding which catogory you want to look for, is no hard task.

In the back of this fantastic book, there are lists of collectors clubs and auction houses, just in case you want to sell any of your antiques. It also tells you which places specalize in what antiques.

If you are a collector yourself then this is a must-have book, and as it's reasonably small, you can take it with you to antique fairs or such like events, and check what you are buying is worth any big bucks. A great book for both die-hard collectors and people with an intrested in antiques alike.