Kovels’ New Price Book Hits No. 1 Spot on Amazon

Hot off the presses — and it’s already a hit! The 55th edition of the perennially popular Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide by Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel has climbed to No. 1 in Amazon sales in the category: #1 New Release in Antiques & Collectible Reference. The lists reflect Amazon’s “hot” best-selling new and future releases. The 2023 Kovels’ Price Guide was released nationally on Sept. 27.

With more tips, more marks, and more prices than any other price guide on the market, Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023 is the most complete and the best-illustrated price guide available from the most trusted name in the industry. It contains more than 3,150 photos; 500 makers’ marks, logos, and dates; and 12,000 all-new prices of antiques and collectibles in 700-plus categories sought by collectors, including Advertising, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Kitchen, Porcelain, Sewing, Tiffany, Tools, Toys, and more. Prices are from actual sales — no estimates — and are reviewed for accuracy.

As a bonus in Kovels’ 2023 book, there is a special section “Collecting Trends: Twentieth-Century Studio Ceramics” showcasing some of the innovative potters who invented new techniques and produced works that marked a shift from factory-made functional items to individual forms of artistic expression in clay. Readers — probably the Amazon buyers who pushed the book to No. 1 status! — will also find an illustrated list of the year’s record prices and hundreds of expert tips, as well as comments on trends and pricing patterns. All of this information helps collectors to quickly identify and price finds, and to buy and sell more confidently.

 

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The All-New 2023 Edition of Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide Is Now Available!

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles 2023 Price Guide, the most complete and best-illustrated antiques and collectibles price guide, has just hit book stands.

The 55th edition of the perennially popular Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide by Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel is now available at booksellers nationwide and online at Kovels.com. With more tips, more marks, and more prices than any other price guide on the market, Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023 gives you the information you need to quickly identify and price finds, and to buy and sell more confidently.

Kovels 2023 price guide includes more than 3,150 photos; 500 makers’ marks, logos, and dates; and 12,000 new prices of antiques and collectibles. Priced items are arranged in 700-plus categories that are sought by collectors, including Advertising, Furniture, Glass, Jewelry, Kitchen, Porcelain, Sewing, Tiffany, Tools, Toys, and more. Prices are from actual sales—no estimates—and are reviewed for accuracy.

Plus, there’s an entirely new center section in Kovels’ 2023 book — “Collecting Trends: Twentieth-Century American Studio Ceramics” — showcasing some of the innovative potters whose works marked a shift from factory-made functional items to individual forms of artistic expression in clay.

Readers will also find an exclusive report on the past year’s record-setting prices and hundreds of expert tips, as well as comments on trends and pricing patterns. All of this enables you to buy, sell, and collect with confidence.

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023 is a valuable resource to help you make wise decisions and save money. The book is available now at Kovels.com and local bookstores.

Kovels Price Guide 2023

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2023

Expert Tips on Spring Cleaning and Re-Assessing Your Collectibles 

The sun is shining, the weather is warming … time to throw out clutter, wash windows and, of course, do a whole-house spring cleaning. For collectors, that can be a tricky job. Inadvertently throwing out something that is valuable or loved by another family member, using the wrong cleaning solution, or having slippery, soapy hands holding delicate porcelains or pottery all can be a recipe for a disaster.

Follow simple rules and you can achieve spring goals and preserve items for future generations. First, don’t throw out anything that isn’t yours, even when it is tempting as you pull out the dusty bins of “stuff” owned by a spouse or child. We all have heard the stories about the mother who threw out now-valuable baseball cards, first-edition comics, original Barbie’s and Star Wars action figures.

With your collections: Save what you still use and love, at least until next year. Put items you are considering getting rid of out of sight and look in a few months and see if you miss them. Sort your discards into boxes or bags labeled “throw away,” “sell” and “give away to a charity or friend.” “Throw away” is trash, old packing material and broken useless things. “Sell” is anything that might earn a few dollars at a garage or church sale. “Give away” is stuff others might want but you have grown tired of.

Collectibles you are keeping might need some special TLC:

  • Use warm water when cleaning, especially pottery and ceramics. Dramatic temperature changes may cause cracking or crazing.
  • Add a few drops of vinegar in dishwater to give glassware and crystal extra sparkle.
  • If you are washing items in the kitchen sink, line the sink with dish towel or rubber mats. It may protect items if they slip out of your hands. And watch out for that faucet — don’t chip anything by a careless movement.
  • Compressed air — often used to clean electronics — is great for blowing dirt off dolls, china and other delicate collectibles.
  • Wash china doll heads or hard plastic dolls with a mild soap like Ivory.
  • Clean porous pottery with wig bleach. Rub it on as you would soap and rinse.

 

Hopefully the spring cleaning and pruning won’t take too long … it is, after all, the time for flea markets and shows. The perfect opportunity, of course, to replenish your collections.

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Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles March 2022 Newsletter Now Available


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Kovels’ March 2022 newsletter features replica farm toys, vintage “modern” chairs, old phonographs, collectible U.S. Navy diving apparatus, Dutch art pottery, and Tinworth figurines, all with photos and prices.

Toy replicas of farm vehicles from a single owner’s collection were auctioned in South Dakota and are featured in a sales report in the March 2022 issue of Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles newsletter. Most were in excellent condition, many in their original boxes, and some brought remarkably high prices. Kovels’ newsletter pictures the top seller, a starter set of five New Holland toy farm vehicles that that brought more than $10,000, along with John Deere, Farmall and Ford tractors that ranged from $40 to $8,800.

Great vintage modern style chairs can be found at flea markets, auctions, and house sales and knowing designers and makers is important to their value. A Chicago auction offered many examples of “modern” chairs sought by both collectors and homeowners. Enjoy the design—and high prices—of chairs by George Nakashima, Pierre Jeanneret, Gio Ponti, and other midcentury designers in Kovels’ March newsletter.

A recent auction in Illinois offered a collection of early phonographs and related items. Kovels’ latest issue pictures a turn-of-the-century gramophone, a double-horn “talking machine” disc phonograph, as well as an early 5-inch disc, a replacement spear-tip horn, and a Charlie Chaplin dancing phonograph toy with prices that went from $1,000 to $57,000.

A London auction featured two hard-to-find collectibles among the offerings—glazed stoneware figurines by George Tinworth and Dutch art pottery. Tinworth was an English pottery artist who worked for the Doulton factory at Lambeth, England, from 1867 until he died in 1913. Collectors love his whimsical mice figurines and Kovels’ March issue pictures examples that sold from $950 to $5,000. Kovels’ also pictures vases and a plate made by early 20th century artists at pottery factories in the Netherlands. Most had Art Nouveau style decoration and brought $500 to $1,200.

And last but not least, diving equipment is a popular subset of maritime collectibles. A recent Kansas auction offered old diving apparatus and Kovels’ pictures vintage examples used by U.S Navy divers. See the old Mark V diving helmet that sold for more than $20,000 along with a newer Mark 12 diving helmet, suit, and boots, and other related equipment in the March newsletter.

The Kovels examine the market for antique and vintage fishing lures and list some makers to look for. Enjoy Terry Kovel’s tips on smart flea market shopping. The March Dictionary of Marks lists marks found on costume jewelry, while the Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a cloisonné vase, a dry sink, an elephant perfume locket, and a decorative pottery decanter used to chill beverages. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the March 2022 Buyer’s Price Guide.

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Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles March 2022 Newsletter

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November 2021 Prices

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Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles October 2021 Newsletter Now Available


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Kovels’ October 2021 newsletter features Halloween collectibles, art pottery by husband-and-wife team Edwin and Mary Scheier, antique Japanese inro, Goldscheider wall masks, television and movie props, and collectible sneakers, all with photos and prices.

 

Halloween collectibles cast a spell on collectors at a Pennsylvania auction and examples are featured in a sale report in Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles October 2021 newsletter. Halloween costumes, decorations and candy containers were made to be used for just a short time and then gathered up and thrown away, which makes the items that have survived more collectible. Bidding was scary high — $31,000! — for an unusual 1920s “veggie man” candy container. Readers will have a treat — no tricks — seeing it with other unique vintage Halloween decorations along with their prices.

A recent auction in London featured Japanese art from a single owner’s collection and Kovels’ October newsletter focuses on inro. Inro are small personal cases with interlocking compartments that were part of traditional costumes for Japanese men, used to carry important objects such as seals and medicines. See examples and prices of inro from the 1700s and 1800s with intricate and symbolic lacquered decoration and learn how they were carried.

Collector interest was high (and so were the bids!) for the pottery of husband-and-wife team Edwin and Mary Scheier that sold at auction in New Jersey. The Scheiers were pioneers in the modern studio pottery movement who worked together for nearly 70 years creating distinctive vessels with raised and incised whimsical figures and shapes and rich colored glazes. Kovels’ October issue pictures examples of Scheier stoneware pots and bowls with their hefty prices.

Owning a part of television and movie history is irresistible, and collectors at a Rhode Island auction had fun with props associated with some of their favorite shows and actors. A bidder paid $2,000 for the lot that took top price honors — the “LEM” (Lunar Excursion Module) hatch prop used in the 1997 movie Apollo 13. See the LEM hatch and other props, including one of Cookie Monster’s cookies, in Kovels’ latest newsletter.

And let Kovels’ October issue introduce you to some of the Goldscheider ladies — painted pottery wall masks modeled as sophisticated women’s faces with applied curls and details that elegantly captured the style of the day. A dozen of the beauties were offered in a U.K. auction, and Kovels’ pictures several of the masks with their winning prices.

Don’t miss Kovels’ October market report on collectible sneakers with prices that will knock your socks off. The illustrated Collector’s Gallery answers readers’ questions about a Larkin secretary desk with bookcase, a carved wood block, an early 1900s container for men’s detachable shirt collars, and a Bavarian porcelain tea set. The October Dictionary of Marks lists some of those used by Victorian furniture manufacturers. And more than 70 antiques and collectibles are listed in the October Buyer’s Price Guide.

Kovels On Antiques & Collectibles October 2021 Newsletter

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