How to recognnize an original antique book or print?
1-I have recently gotten into collecting antique books (16th,17th,18th century), and I was wondering, if in a nutshell anybody could tell me how to recognize a fake from an original.
2-And I have been recently looking at ebay antiques section and they have amazing things there, but how do I know if the antiques on ebay are original or fakes? I ask the seller questions but people lie to sell.
anyone can help me?
Has anyone ever bought antiques of ebay?
You need alot of book learning. Books are an art unto themselves. It is difficult to determine the rarity of a book because publisher’s have ways of doing things with first editions that you need to know. Some publishers called every book a first edition, when in fact they were not a first edition. If you really want to collect antique books, take classes or try to work part time for a book collector. This is a very sophisticated art…book collecting. If you want a good hint and some fun reading, try buying or borrowing any of the murder mystery books by John Dunning. The “hero” is Cliff Janeway and the murders always involved rare books. They are good reads but as many books do, there is background information in the books that tell you just how complicated book collecting can be.
VINTAGE 1913 HARLEY DAVIDSON CLASSIC ANTIQUE WONDER
|
|
Wabash Valley Farms 25008 Whirley-Pop Stovetop Popcorn Popper $19.89 Face it, sometimes the best thing about going out to a movie is the popcorn, those big plump kernels that always seem so much better than what you pop at home. But this simple stovetop popper changes all that. It really does make awesome, fresh-popped corn that might make you start renting videos instead. The sturdy aluminum pan has a clip-on lid with a stay-cool wooden handle. A turn crank on the… |
|
|
Pyrex Prepware Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements Pyrex Prepware 2-cup measuring cup includes 1-each 2-cup measuring cup with red graphics. Whether you are preparing a multi-course meal or simply a snack for one, Pyrex offers products which make food preparation a little easier, from beginning to end. There’s no substitute for Pyrex, the original glass bakeware. Introduced 90 years ago and made of a durable, high temperature material, Pyrex rema… |
|
|
Great Northern Popcorn Original Stainless Steel Stove Top 6-1/2-Quart Popcorn Popper $27.99 The Stainless Steel Stove Top Popper by Great Northern Popcorn was designed by popcorn scientists to make popping popcorn on the stove a breeze. Now one person can continually pop pan after pan of delicious popcorn without the investment of expensive and bulky popcorn poppers. Only one word truly describes the Spinner Stovetop Popper – Awesome! The Stainless Steel Stovetop Popper’s innovative des… |
|
|
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days $20.15 Sesame Street has been educating and entertaining kids for 40 years. But the kind of TV programming for children that we currently take for granted didn’t exist until Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett dreamed up the concept of curriculum-based, educational children’s television in the late 1960s. By 1969, lots of research, consultation with educators, and testing had culminated in Sesame Street… |
|
|
Glenn Miller – Greatest Hits $4.76 No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MILLER,GLENNTitle: GREATEST HITSStreet Release Date: 04/16/1996… |
|
|
Mob Hits – Music From and a Tribute to the Great Mob Movies $12.39 As you may already know from seeing it hawked incessantly on late-night TV by Jerry Vale, Mob Hits is a compilation CD that attempts to capture the ambience of the modern gangster pic by assembling songs heard in key scenes of such films as The Godfather, GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco, and Casino. While licensing restrictions keep the music of Frank Sinatra from being part of this collection (odd, as … |
|
|
Grease [VHS] $0.01 The Original Grease (Aniv) [VHS] (1978) John Travolta (Actor), Olivia Newton-John (Actor), Randal Kleiser… |
|
|
The Wedding Singer [VHS] $0.79 You’re better off having been born after, say, 1965, if you really want to enjoy this corny romantic comedy and its abundant references to the MTV culture of the mid-1980s–and even then the odds are only 50-50 that you’ll have a shamelessly good time. But a lot of people beat those odds, because The Wedding Singer was a surprise box-office hit when released in early 1998, and it resulted in Satur… |
|
|
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Original Movie [VHS] $7.50 You can chalk it up to good timing and a heavy dose of video-game synergy, but this 1990 hit remains the box-office champ of independent films, with a total gross of $135 million. Of course the Turtles began as a phenomenally successful Nintendo video game, so it was a given that the movie would be a hit with its target audience of rabid young video addicts. This is what comic books fans call “the… |
|
|
Oswego GW-1 Grandpa’s Weeder $20.94 With its simple lever action and durable steel construction, this tried and true tool is ingeniously designed and made to last forever. For almost one hundred years, gardeners young and old have used Grandpa’s Weeder to extract weeds and their roots easily, with just a step of their foot and a tilt of the handle. No pulling, bending, or kneeling. Grandpa’s Weeder is a smart choice for those wantin… |
