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Antique Mining Equipment & Collectibles

David W. Pearson & Ron Bommarito
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Mining’s dramatic and dangerous nature is reflected in the hundreds of specialized tools and artifacts shown in…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 459 color prints | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764314957 | Binding: soft cover

$29.95
Scales: A Collector’s Guide

Bill & Jan Berning
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Almost every business and home has at least one scale. This book features hundreds of color photographs of the…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 506 color photos, 9 b/w photos | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764307782 | Binding: soft cover

$29.95
Advertising Openers: A Guide to Beer Openers & More

Donald A. Bull & John R. Stanley
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This valuable and expansive guide to advertising openers of all sorts features over 1,500 images picturing more…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 1554 color photos | 288 pp
ISBN13: 9780764346774 | Binding: hard cover

$79.99
Antique Coffee Grinders: American, English, and European

Michael Whiteand Judith A. Sivonda
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Even before its current zenith of popularity, coffee has been a favorite beverage worldwide for centuries. To…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 600 color photos | 256 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764313523 | Binding: hard cover

$69.95
Antique Mining Equipment and Collectibles

Revised and updated 2nd edition
Ron Bommarito & David W. Pearson
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Mining’s dramatic and dangerous nature is reflected in the hundreds of specialized tools and artifacts shown…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 503 color | 176 pp
ISBN13: 9780764350894 | Binding: soft cover

$29.99
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Maurice Collins
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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 1,200 color and b/w images | 384 pp
ISBN13: 9780764351327 | Binding: hard cover

$60.00
Cemetery Gates: Death and Mourning Through the Ages

Corvis Nocturnum
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What people fear, they are also fascinated with—apprehension of the end is what keeps the topic of death a…
Size: 7″ x 10″ | 150 color images | 144 pp
ISBN13: 9780764337871 | Binding: soft cover

$24.99
Coffee Antiques

Edward C. Kvetko and Douglas Congdon-Martin
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Long before the current “coffee craze,” collectors were fascinated with the world of coffee. This colorful,…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 538 color photos | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764310683 | Binding: soft cover

$29.99
Collectible Blowtorches

Dick Sarpolus
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A blowtorch is one of those things that is instantly recognized for what it is, even by those who haven’t seen one…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 296 color photos | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764312984 | Binding: soft cover

$29.95
Compass Chronicles

Kornelia Takacs
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After the invention of the magnetic compass and its first use in Italy for travel in the 16th century, a ship’s…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 507 color photos | 176 pp
Index
ISBN13: 9780764333965 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Dictionary of American Hand Tools: A Pictorial Synopsis

Alvin Sellens
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Here is the greatest assembly of hand tools ever assembled. It is a fascinating chronicle of nearly every tool…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 4500+ b/w illustrations | 546 pp
ISBN13: 9780764315923 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Early Logging Tools

Kevin Johnson
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Over 330 clear color photos display the wide array of equipment once used to log high timber that are now…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 333 color & 12 b/w photos | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764327407 | Binding: soft cover

$29.95
Everyday Artifacts: America 1750-1850

Anthony L. Tafel
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Over 280 crisp color photos reveal artifacts of early American everyday life that were useful for surveying land,…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 281 color photos | 112 pp
Index
ISBN13: 9780764333613 | Binding: soft cover

$19.99
Hand Planes in the Modern Shop

Kerry Pierce
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Plane users, craftsmen who would like to become plane users, and plane collectors all will find a wealth of how-to…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 531 color photos & b/w illustrations | 192 pp
ISBN13: 9780764335587 | Binding: hard cover

$39.99
Keen Kutter® Planes: The Simmons Hardware Company

Alvin Sellen
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Collectors have long sought information about the Simmons Hardware Company and its Keen Kutter® tools. Now, one…
Size: 6″ x 9″ | 202 b/w illustrations | 160 pp
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ISBN13: 9780764316104 | Binding: soft cover

$19.95
Living Crafts, Historic Tools: The Craftspeople and Collections of the Landis Valley Museum

Michael Emery and Irwin Richman
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What we celebrate today as “crafts” were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman’s product was not…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 592 images | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764342974 | Binding: soft cover

$29.99
Scales: A Collector’s Guide

2nd edition, revised and expanded
Bill Berning & Jan
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Almost every business and home has at least one scale. This newly updated book features hundreds of color…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 546 color and 9 b/w photos | 160 pp
Price Guide
ISBN13: 9780764319051 | Binding: soft cover

$29.95
The Antique Tool Collector’s Guide to Value

Ronald S. Barlow
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Old tools to build a civilization are presented in 1485 line drawings in alphabetical order, with detailed…
Size: 9″ x 12″ | 1485 b/w drawings | 244 pp
Price Guide/Index
ISBN13: 9780895380999 | Binding: soft cover

$16.95
Town-Country Old Tools: Locks, Keys & Closures with prices

Jack P Wood
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All sorts of old hand tools included for farming, machine shops, woodworking, blacksmithing. Extensive groups of…
Size: 8 1/2″ x 11″ | 122 b/w photos & over 2000 engravings | 288 pp
Price Guide/Index
ISBN13: 9780891454175 | Binding: soft cover

$16.95