Author: Jessie Walker
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600591907
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Poring over this beautifully photographed guide is as much fun as exploring flea markets, second hand shops and antique stores with someone who is knowledgeable about the most popular collectibles you are likely to find there.
Author: Janelle A. Schwartz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
Author: Harley J. Spiller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Author: Phillips, de Pury & Company
Publisher:
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Category : Photographs
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Alice Bertha Gomme
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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