Product Description

Be in the know & pocket the profit with expert Judith Miller. Valuing collectables is quick & easy with this essential, all-colour price guide. This work showcases over 5,000 collectables including current hot buys, from funky West German pottery to chocolate moulds, plus, expanded sections on the increasingly popular 1950s-60s and British & European studio & factory glass. Hints on where & how to buy & sell, plus tips on what makes certain items more desirable than others, will prove invaluable to bargain-hunter & serious collector alike. 'Judith Miller knows collectables' - "The Telegraph".Written by world-renowned expert Judith Miller and compiled by ex-Sotheby's specialist, Mark Hill, this 600-page guide is the fifth all-colour specially photographed collectables price guide to be published by DK. With her 30 years' worth of antiques and collectables experience, Judith Miller advises each reader on how to become a smart and savvy buyer. Each collectable is presented in a catalogue-style layout, with price and size clearly displayed. Closer look features, contextual notes on designers, makers, and cultural phenomena, and top tips on how to spot a bargain will empower the reader to buy and sell with confidence, whether online or at a car boot sale or collector's fair. Whether you want to identify and value items already in your possession or simply get an idea of what the market holds, the volume and diversity of items in DK's "Collectables Price Guide 2007" will bring out the collector in you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169380 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 600 pages

About the Author
Judith Miller began collecting antiques in the 1960s and has written over 100 books. She is a regular lecturer and contibutor to newspapers and magazines, and is Antiques & Collectables Magazine's Agony Aunt. Her TV work includes The House Detectives and The Antiques Trail. Judith lives in London. Judith Miller began collecting antiques in the 1960s and has since extended and reinforced her knowledge through research in the UK and internationally. Judith has written more than 100 books on antiques and interiors, which are held in high regard by collectors and dealers alike. In 2001, she began an exciting new venture with DK to build an extensive full-colour illustrated range of titles, which now includes annual price guides, specialist collector's guides and encyclopedias. Judith is a regular lecturer and contributor to newspapers and magazines. Her TV work includes The House Detectives, The Antiques Trail and The Martha Stewart Show. She lives in London with her family.

Customer Reviews

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 brilliant piece of info
this is a fantastic book that covers just about every subject going. I am a collector of some very bizzare items and still managed to find them in this very comprehensive price guide.
It collects its information from many auction houses around the country and a few antique stores. It lists lots of collectors clubs and absolutley loads of auction houses so if you wish to sell something you are spoilt for choice on where to send it, the good thing is it states who specalizes in what.

The valuations are imple and easy to understand as with descriptions of the items. Ive come across some books that give you little information about the item your looking at but this isnt one of them.
so i would say buy this book it is well worth the money

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.