Kitchen Collectibles: The Essential Buyer's Guide

Provides information on antique kitchen gadgets and cookbooks, including their history, functions, and prices for collectors

Price guides tend to reflect public interest in antique market trends, and this book is no exception. The first of its two parts discusses the history of kitchens, cookware, and kitchen appliances; trends in collecting kitchen items; resources for collectors (museums, reference books, clubs, and newsletters); tips on buying and selling; decorating with kitchen collectibles, old cookbooks, culinary ephemera, and advertisements; and, finally, how to recognize reproductions. The price guide in the second part also covers much-perhaps too much. It includes advertising collectibles, baking pans, baskets, cookbooks and booklets, some Roseville pottery, and even a price listing for one kitchen radio. For collectors of very specialized items, this hodgepodge price guide will not be comprehensive enough. Still, it is recommended for readers with even a moderate interest in kitchenware.
Margarete Gross, Chicago P.L.
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