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Synopsis
Signs of Success
Discover what the pros know with this hands-on, how-to guide to picking advertising signs. Learn what seasoned collectors look for and what they value in this easy-to-follow and indispensable pocket guide.
YOU'LL UNCOVER:
- The best categories of signs: beer, Coca-Cola, petroliana, food and drink, farm and implement, home and garden, and neon signs
- Practical strategies from top buyers and sellers
- What to look for and where to find it
- How to flip the signs you pick
- Common fakes and reproductions
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About the Author
Eric Bradley is the author of the critically-acclaimed "Mantiques: A Manly Guide to Cool Stuff," "Picker's Pocket Guide: SIGNS" and "Picker's Pocket Guide: TOYS." He also is the editor of the annual "Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide." A former editor and an award-winning investigative journalist with a degree in economics, he has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Four Seasons Magazine, Bottom Line/Personal and The Detroit News, among others. He is a public relations associate at Heritage Auctions, HA.com, the world's largest collectibles auctioneer, and lives near Dallas with his wife and three children.
From the Back Cover
Packed with real-life collecting stories, detailed descriptions, and a reverence for sign history and craftsmanship, the book shares valuable perspective and advice from some of the biggest names in the hobby. It covers today's hottest collecting categories such as: Beer * Oil & Petroliana * Farm & Implement * Coca-Cola * Neon * Trade Signs * Soda Pop * Home & Garden * Food & Drink. Chapters including "Explaining Advertising Signs," "The World's Best Signs," "Product Branding," and "How to Value, Flip and Avoid Reproductions," put these colloquial works of art in proper context and explain what's driving today's market.
From the Inside Flap
Featuring expert advice, real world stories and 150+ full-color images, Picker's Pocket Guide - SIGNS: How to Pick Antiques Like a Pro by Eric Bradley (Krause Publications, 2014) takes you behind the scenes of the white hot -- and lucrative -- world of vintage advertising signs.
The handy, 208-page pocket-sized book shows you why the world's most valuable signs now bring six-figures at auction and why signs in even poor condition are flying off shelves. Sign-selling experts reveal their how-to tips in telling the difference between reproductions and the real deal, which signs show potential for increasing in value, the latest market trends and pricing, and what collectors look for in quality advertising signs.
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