Miller's Kitchenware Buyer's Guide:

What to Look for and What to Pay for: Over 2000 Items of Kitchenware

(Editor) Mitchell Beazley

The kitchen is always the heart of the home, and so collecting kitchenware can have a high nostalgia factor for some, while for others it is the enormous variety of shapes and purposes that intrigue. In this new all-colour Kitchenware Buyer's Guide, over 2,500 examples of kitchenware from the 1890s to the late 1960s across the UK, continental Europe, and the USA are illustrated and described, each with up-to-date prices suiting collectors of every budget. Divided into two user-friendly sections, What to Look For and What to Pay, readers learn to gauge price differences due to maker, condition, or provenance, while items covered range from sculptural jelly moulds, ice cream makers, and cookie cutters to chopping boards and blenders. Special features provide additional collecting information from dealers and auction house experts.

Miller's Guide to Collecting Kitchenware

Christina Bishop

This guide contains comprehensive advice about the fascinating and diverse field of kitchenware. Christina Bishop, one of London's leading dealers, advises on all areas of the subject, including historical background, identification, dating and valuation.

Old Cooking Utensils

David J. Eveleigh

In the twentieth century far-reaching technological and social changes have made their mark on the kitchen and long established methods of cooking have been swept away. Items of equipment in regular use for several thousand of years have disappeared while others have changed beyond recognition with the adoption of electricity and new materials such as plastics. This book looks at the kitchen which centred on the open hearth or range and surveys the equipment used for storing and preserving, preparing, boiling, roasting and baking food.

Kitchen Collectibles: The Essential Buyer's Guide

Diane Stoneback

This is a complete guide to the world of kitchen collectables. Produced in A-Z format for easy reference, it covers all types of collectables from butter moulds and biscuit cutters from the 1700's to electrical appliances of the mid-20th century kitchen. Every kitchen item is included, from dryers to frying pans, shakers to baking trays, and scales to the average bucket.

Kitchen Junk

Mary Randolph Carter

Shows a variety of antiques dishes and kitchenware, lists places to find them, and gives advice on bargaining at flea markets.

Domestic Bygones: Shire Album 20

Jacqueline Fearn

Hasteners, idlebacks, washing bats and goffering machines all had a place in the Victorian household but few people now recognise them or appreciate their usefulness to our great grandparents. The author has assembled photographs of many such bygones, with a commentary on their place in the domestic economy.

Victorian Houseware, Hardware and Kitchenware: A Pictorial Archive with Over 2000 Illustrations

(Editor)Ronald S. Barlow

Readers who enjoyed and valued such Dover reprints as the 1895 Montgomery Ward Catalogue will delight in this illustrated archive of Victorian era house furnishings kitchenware, and hardware Over 2.000 illustrations - reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from priceless antique trade catalogues - fill the pages of this comprehensive guide. On display are andirons, apple corers and ash sifters, balance scales, beef shavers, cowbells, berry spoons, brass coal hods, housemaid's buckets, buttonhole cutters, cider mills, coffee roasters, grindstones, hay rakes, inkwells, oil-burning lamps, sausage stuffers, seed strippers, spittoons, string holders, washboards, clothes wringers, and hundreds of other items. Captions provide helpful product descriptions, including such information as size, weight and cost. Many of this enormous selection of copyright-free images are unavailable elsewhere.

300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles

Linda Campbell Franklin

Linda Campbell Franklin's long-awaited new edition cooks up three centuries of the most avidly collected domestic tools of the trade. Collectors will find more than 7,000 antique items that dice, measure, filter, or whir in the kitchen, arranged by function from preparation and cooking to housekeeping and gardening. Franklin also offers healthy servings of classic recipes, helpful hints, and fascinating tidbits from 18th, 19th, and 20th century trade catalogs and advertisements.

Kitchen Collectibles: An Illustrated Price Guide

Ellen M. Plante

Enjoy a banquet of information and advice for collectors of cookware, utensils, pottery and kitchen gadgets. Extra large portions of pricing information, item descriptions, and photographs highlight this essential price guide, leaving you hungry for more. It examines a variety of kitchen collectibles including advertising memorabilia, cookware, gadgets, utensils, pottery, woodenware, and all types of appliance from iceboxes to refrigerators.

Kitchen Antiques, 1750-1940

K. McNerney

Illustrates and describes a wide variety of kitchen gadgets, pots and pans, butter churns, molds, crocks, and tableware dating from the colonial era up to 1940.

Collectibles for the Kitchen, Bath and Beyond: A Pictorial Guide

Ellen Bercovici, Bobbie Zucker Bryson, Deborah Gillham, Bobby Zu

This comprehensive collector's guide provides more than 1,300 colour photographs and current prices for collectibles in the kitchen, bathroom and beyond. Includes many listings which are not featured anywhere else, including napkin doll ladies, figural egg timers, laundry sprinkler bottles, whistle cups, toothbrush holders, plus much more. Vintage advertisements and original patents offer valuable historical background information. The book also includes a 'wannabe' section at the end of each chapter to provide the reader with helpful hints to distinguish between the genuine article and a fabulous fake.

Nutcrackers (Shire Colour Album S.)

Robert Mills

Everybody has used a nutcracker, and this entertaining book describes the many ingenious methods employed and the numerous imaginative designs produced from the eighteenth century to the present day to carry out the apparently simple task of cracking a nut. Considering the heavy use to which they have been put, it is surprising that some of the earliest wooden nutcrackers still survive. Some of these are wonderful examples of folk art. While nutcrackers of such age and quality are scarce today and latter-day mass-produced metal ones are less individual, interesting figural brass and steel examples can still be found at accessible prices. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject, covering the history, development and variation of design and construction of nutcrackers around the world.

Miller's Corkscrews and Wine Antiques: A Collector's Guide (Miller's Collector's Guide)

Christopher Sykes, Phil Ellis

Written for the new collector, this guide considers items such as wine funnels, decorative corks, decanter labels, port tilters and champagne taps as well as 300-odd patented corkscrews. The guide identifies makers and gives advice on price ranges.

Collectible Corkscrews (The Collectible S.)

Frederique Crestin-Billet

The corkscrew is a relative newcomer in the history of wine. Before the eighteenth century and the development of modern bottling techniques, wine was only very rarely transported in glass bottles. But then, the English discovered that cork (imported from Portugal) was a far healthier way of stopping bottles than earlier methods, and so the corkscrew was born. As the corkscrew grew in popularity, its uses also diversified. For example, eighteenth-century ladies wishing to uncork their perfumes and smelling salts in a delicate manner could use models in mother-of-pearl and gold. Today, corkscrews are made in all manner of materials, from the traditional wood and bone to hi-tech plastics and alloys. Even designers and artists have turned their attention to this humble object, with occasionally astonishing and unexpected results...With over 500 colour photographs presenting the full array of styles of corkscrews, their different techniques and materials, this book provides an informative look at a truly collectible item.