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Picked up this lot at auction today for AU$50 and think I got a good deal. I already have Danckert for porcelain and some hallmark books but nothing like this lot. It is going to take me at least a week just to look at the pretty pictures. Are any of these considered a good reference in their area of expertise??

Cheers
Stephen

 

Just our opinion, but, as a general rule, we'd figure the more recent the volume, the more accurate and thorough, since more information from more sources was available when it was compiled than was available in older books on the topic. The one thing you should absolutely ignore in any antiques / collectibles book of any publication date is any sort of "price guide" that many of them include.

 

The only prices I care about are eboo sold listings.

 

I rely for ID on the internet and the brains trust on this site. I am banning books, more or less, and ditching as many as possible, sad to say. But that's a great haul for $50.

 

I'd love the art books and the costume books in particular!

 

Looks like you found a treasure trove! All at one auction?

 

Regardless of the fact that any prices in such books are bound to be more or less useless (which I'm sure you already know) - the pictures! The write-ups! The background information! Such variety! Etc., etc.

I am a charming shade of British Racing Green!

 

All in one lot at today's auction. Normally these sell for a lot more but the
crowd was pretty thin.

 

I would have bought them as well. Though we use the internet a great deal, we wouldn't be without our reference books and we have added 3 more thisweek.

Not a chance we are getting rid of these!!

 

While there are many things about Amazon that I hate, it is helpful for looking up current prices for books and reviews that can indicate whether they are considered useful or authoritative. So, look them all up there. If they have an ISBN searching by that is the fastest way to get to the same edition.

 

@Miscstuff - now you'll be expected to answer a lot of questions !

 

anything to broaden your eye......is helpful and good !!

Happy reading !!!

 

A spark plug expert is just what we've been missing.

 

Fascinating reading the history of spark plugs. Seems two Italians Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci in 1855 created a plug with a bottom end that looked like today's and also built the first ignition coil. Then a Belgium Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir created the first true spark plug and distributor. Everyone who came before them tried to use open flames or gunpowder for ignition and you might find bits of them in a local cemetery.
See. You learn something useless every day.
Cheers
Stephen

 

Now you can be our go-to guy when we have questions about any of these subjects!!

 

Hi,
My FIL has 4 large spark plug cleaners from the 40s and 50s. When does he think he will be cleaning spark plugs??????
greg

 

Miscstuff: Often I consider the fact that I have a brain packed to the gills with utterly useless information. Interesting, sometimes fascinating, but...useless in the modern world. However, once in a while, a chance comes for me to parade my tiny bit of erudition in front of an audience which is suitably gobsmacked. )!!)

It's not quite as easy as, just casually, over drinks at a cocktail party, to introduce the subject of spark plugs. One must wait for the introduction of certain talking points. Cars, for example. A stopped up drain in the kitchen sink. The little flame that fuels the logs in the fireplace. Then it will all come trippingly to the tongue, and you will be thought Most intelligent! And So clever.

And, if you don't happen to like cocktail parties -- wait for Jeopardy!

 

I find it adorable to be on antiquers.com, in the “BOOKS” forum and seeing all the “I generally use the internet” post.