Miller's Collecting Furniture : The Facts at Your Fingertips

by Christopher C. Payne, Janet Gleeson (Editor), E. King (Illustrator)

This guide contains all the essential information needed by a budding furniture collector, showing how to identify styles as well as individual pieces, how to avoid fakes and how to spot a bargain. It includes chapters on all major types of readily-affordable furniture, a special section on 20th-century pieces, advice on buying from a variety of sources, tips on care, restoration and insurance, and useful listings of auction houses, antiques centres and major antiques events.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1998

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Reviews

[Matthew Ogborn]

Couple of decades old now, but still works a treat as an entry guide into the world of antiques that pre date the edition I read. As someone who is specialising in different, quirky pieces of furniture this is essential reading to work out which designers, manufacturers and periods are desirable and affordable as well as pleasing to my eye.