This new edition of The Bottle bible is loaded with listings, current market values and trademark data for 50 years of bottles produced during the 19th and 20th centuries. With this book in hand, the tools to positively identify and accurately assess bottles in your collection are at your fingertips.Review tips for spotting reproductions, determining rarity and identifying factors that affect values and for 50 plus categories of bottles (with 20 new areas) including bottles from Avon, Ballantine, Jim Beam, Lionstone, Miniatures, and Violin and Banjo among others.
This book showcases Avon and California Perfume Company products produced from 1886 to 2007. For the first time since the book was produced in 1969, Hastin's ever-popular Avon reference includes hundreds of new color photographs! The addition of color to a large portion of this book will delight dedicated fans of the encyclopedia. Preserving the same format as the last editions, the book still includes over 200 categories: men's and women's sets; bottles; perfumes; colognes; jars; soaps; plates; samples and demonstrator kits; Albee figurines; Avon representative awards; men's, women's, and children's decanters; and more. Dates, pertinent facts about colors and variations, and current market values are included. You will love the new look of Bud Hastin's Avon Collector's Encyclopedia! 2008 values.
From Kovels—the most trusted name in antiques and collectibles:THE INDISPENSABLE BOTTLES PRICE GUIDE Kovels’ Bottles Price List, 13th edition, is a newly revised edition of the most reliable guide available for anyone who buys, sells, or collects bottles. Written by Ralph and Terry Kovel, America’s foremost authorities on antiques and collectibles, this indispensable, best-selling handbook includes the most accurate current prices and histories of more than 90 categories from the 1700s to the 2000s, from flasks and fruit jars to miniature pottery bottles, and from medicine and perfume bottles to Avon, Coca-Cola, and Jim Beam and Ezra Brooks. Special features include: • A sixteen-page color insert of distinctive bottles carefully selected by the authors • More than 12,000 all-new, appraiser-approved prices• Over 350 black-and-white photographs • Edited by America’s premier experts on antiques and collectibles• American prices based on actual U.S. auctions (not estimates or conversions from European auctions) • Portable, pocket-sized, so you can carry to auctions in your tote-bag “The Kovels are arguably the authorities on antiques and collectibles in this country.” —Los Angeles Times “Probably the single best book to have a real standard for antique bottle collectors.” —AntiqueBottles.com
"The 1974-75 Avon Encyclopedia has been compiled by Bud Hastin. To best understand this book and its contents, please read this before starting through the book. All items from 1929 to 1974 will give the first year and the last year date that the item was sold by the Avon Company. Dates will read, for instance, 1930-36. This means this item was introduced sometime in 1930 and was discontinued for the last time in 1936. Dates like 1970-71 mean the item sold in both years like 1958-60 means it sold in all three years, but could have only been on the market for a period of about two years total time. All items dated 1886 to 1928 give only the first year the item was introduced and does not imply it sold for one year only, unless it states "only" after the year. Only the items marked with two dates from 1886 to 1928 mean the first and last year sold. All dates from 1929 to 1974 with only one year given means this item was sold during that one year only and unsually for a very short period. These items are usually considered a short-issue and hard to find. O.S.P. means Original Selling Price. This is the full value price Avon puts on an item. It does not represent a special selling price which is from 20% to 50% off of the O.S.P. The O.S.P. is given on all items in this book. S.S.P. means Special Selling Price (reduced in price.) C.M.V. means Current Market Value that most collectors are willing to pay for that particular item. Many items priced in this book are priced both item only and item in box. Items in the original box need not be full. The collectors price is for an empty bottle. If it is current and full and in the box, then you can expect to pay full retail price or the special selling price that Avon still sells this item for. All new Avons dated to 1974 are given a C.M.V. the same as the O.S.P. or S.S.P. because it is usually still available from Avon. Only after Avon stops selling the item and it has been placed on the annual......" [from introduction]
Spiralbound 381-page softcover
Since 1969, Hastins Avon Collectors Encyclopedia has been the official and only complete price guide to buying, selling, or collecting Avon or California Perfume Company products. In this new, completely revised 16th edition, there are over 200 categories. The informative text includes whats hot and whats not in Avon collecting, the history of the California Perfume Co., and information on where to buy and sell these popular collectibles. Its still the #1 choice for Avon collectors as well as Avon representatives, selling hundreds of thousands of copies over the years!
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