collectors and collecting

Contains profiles of ninety individuals involved in the comic book industry during the 1950s and 1960s, including indexers, dealers, fanzine publishers, convention organizers, writers, artists, and others.

Presents a guide to numismatics, or coin collecting, focusing on U.S. coins, buying and selling coins, and internet transactions, discussing how age affects value, how to store and protect coins, avoid fakes, and locate rare coins, and how to get kids and friends involved.

Discusses firefighting equipment of the past, including hand pumpers, steamers, aerials, and service trucks and their collection and restoration.

A guide to coin collecting that provides information on how coins are made, what the various coin grades are and how to identify them, where to buy coins, and what the different types of collectible coins are.

When the most valuable baseball card of Elizabeth's collection disappears, her mother's first new date and a suspicious baseball card dealer are likely suspects.

Examines the history of Americans bringing famous works of European art over to the galleries in the United States, which includes the transportation of pieces from Raphaels, Rembrandts, and Vermeers; and describes the lives of the wealthy buyers who bought them.

Explores the meanings and values of the objects with which influential families in Renaissance Italy, like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga, surrounded themselves with, examining the link between the fine arts, painting and sculpting, and artifacts of other kinds.

Presents a collection of reproductions of the drawings and sketches of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, including Degas, Delacroix, Daumier, Cezanne, and more.

Traces the history of costume jewelry from ancient times through the present, discussing how social and economic developments, changing fashions, new materials, and manufacturing techniques have impacted the industry, and profiling more than 1,500 collectible pieces with pricing and size information.