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’ online price guide has just gotten even bigger and better! More than 12,000 new prices and 3,000 photos of antiques and collectibles have been added to Kovels’ already comprehensive online price guide. Collectors will find prices of furniture, toys, pottery, porcelain, all kinds of glass, clothing, purses and so much more.

Need a guide for buying and selling, appraising, or settling an inheritance? Kovels’ prices are current, from sales at shops, shows, flea markets, auctions, and online, all checked for accuracy by Kovels’ experts.

And the Kovels.com search capabilities make finding prices easy. Collectors can search three different ways:

1. Look in one of the 700-plus categories listed under “Antique Price Guide by Alphabetical Order” that reflect a wide range of collectors’ interests. Category descriptions include information on makers with marks and dates to help readers identify market trends and accurately price collectibles.

2. Search by topic and use the filters to narrow down what you are looking for.

3. Type keywords about your object in the main search bar next to the magnifying glass at the top right of every page. Searching this way will also list other information on Kovels.com that may be of interest.

Visit Kovels’ online price guide—collecting enthusiasts can see for themselves what treasures await!

Psssst — are you by yourself right now? Good! Because you might want to keep this a secret from your friends and loved ones until all the presents are opened.  We have 10 great gift ideas (and a bonus idea!) to make your lives easier. Our first suggestion before we start our list, however, is to give a collector friend or loved one something they collect, if that’s possible. Go to a reputable dealer or online site, do your research and check arrival dates. Beyond that, here are some ideas based on current trends and tried-and-true gifts.

1. Vintage jewelry is always appreciated.  A Bakelite bracelet is one idea. Bakelite is less expensive this year and coming back in fashion.

2. A cast iron doorstop. Practical and useful. It can be a vase of flowers or a cute pug dog.

3. For an older friend or relative, find some 1950s or 1960s cookie cutters to remind them of their youth or create new memories.  Look for metal ones with the handles and vibrantly colored plastic examples.

4. Card games are back! Look for an old deck of cards with interesting pictures, or as a bonus, interesting graphics on a vintage card game.

5. Woven tablecloth for holiday parties. If they are woven, they are less likely to need ironing.

6. Paperweight.  They come in all sizes, prices and ages.

7. Colorful glass flower vase from 1960s — look for glass by Fenton, Fostoria or other makers.

8. Cut glass pickle dish. Cut glass is a bargain right now and it still looks good on the table, especially filled with holiday treats.  (Cut glass is cut to form the pattern, unlike pressed glass.)

9. Vintage silk pictorial scarf.

10. Our house favorite of course,  Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2022 with autographed by Terry Kovel plus a FREE fakes booklet.

BONUS. Gift a membership to Kovels.com. An entire year of antiques and collectibles knowledge — prices, marks, buying and selling expertise, readers Q & A and our monthly newsletter Kovels on Antiques & Collectibles PLUS 47 years of archives!

Guess what is on the cover of the December issue of Antique Trader magazine? Here’s a hint: It’s in its 54th year! The author is a smiling woman perched in a chair and surrounded by 20,000 books on porcelain, pottery, glass, Arts & Crafts furniture, Mid-Century Modern art and furniture and, well, everything from A-Z in the world of antiques and collectibles. It’s none other than our own  Kovels Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide authored by Terry Kovel, “an indomitable 93-year-old,” and her daughter, Kim Kovel. The article details the history, endurance and importance of the Kovels’ annual price guides, published since 1953 and the remaining up-to-date source of current prices printed annually. The 632-page, 2022 Kovels’ Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide (a great present for the collector or antiques lover in your family!) is now on sale. It includes 12,500 listings and more than 3,000 full-color photographs. It also includes a special section “Collecting Trends: Twentieth Century American Studio Jewelry.”

What better way to prepare a 2022 filled with visits to flea markets, antique shows and events than to be armed with a resource on antiques and collectibles to help you find out what it is and what it is worth?

Hot off the presses — and a hit! The 54th 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 two categories: “New Releases in Americana Antiques & Collectibles” and “New Releases in Antiques Care & Reference.” The latest Kovels’ price guide was released nationally on Sept. 28. The lists reflect Amazon’s best-selling new and future releases.

With more tips, more marks, and more prices than any other price guide on the market, Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2022 contains information needed by collectors to quickly identify and price finds, and to buy and sell more confidently. It includes more than 3,000 photos; 500 makers’ marks, logos, and dates; and 12,500 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’ 2022 book, there is a special section “Collecting Trends: Twentieth-Century American Studio Jewelry” showcasing designers of the bold, new modern “jewelry as art” that emerged in the late 1940s and ’50s. 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.

Buy the new Kovels’ 2022 price book directly from Kovels.com and receive TWO FREE GIFTS — a free ebook companion (a $14.99 value), and our Fakes, Fantasies & Reproductions booklet (a $7.95 value) — both exclusive to Kovels.com!