Collecting Antique Metalware - Evan Perry

Collecting Antique Metalware - Evan Perry - Country Life -1974 - 191pp, indexed, Hardcover with dustcover shows light shelf wear - Internally clean and tight.

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If you collect metalware and one buy one book, let this be it - although I also wholeheartedly recommend Mary Gaston's "Antique Brass & Copper Identification and Value Guide". They are both excellent in their own ways.
Perry's book is very strong on the quality of its graphics and is just as strong on its explantions and anecdotal background material. The photos are a combination of both color and b/w. If you are considering a reference book for the field, look no further and wait no longer - this is it. But as I said earlier also get Gaston's book which has all photos in color and many more of them, but leaves one wanting in explanations as to when the articles were made. You really need both books if you're serious about collecting. The price of a refence book in any field of collecting will seem cheap if it saves you from buying even one fraud, let alone the added knowledge it will give you.