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In this comprehensive text, C.L. Miller chronicles the long history and many products of America's best known home delivery company. W.T. Rawleigh Company collectibles are presented here in over 590 photographs and advertising images. This vast array of packages, tins, bottles, and notions of all sorts begins with William T. Rawleigh's original 1889 products and continues up through the Rawleigh Company's late twentieth century product lines. Included are many old-time essentials for the home and farm, such as medicines "for man and beast," food products, spices and extracts, cosmetics, toiletries, brushes, cookbooks, calendars, and the Rawleigh Good Health Guides and Almanacs. Also provided in this colorful and informative guide are helpful hints on locating and evaluating Rawleigh products, the proper care of those collectibles, and prices for the items themselves. This book will be a delight for everyone interested in the home delivery products of days-gone-by.

A nostalgic trip down the aisles of America's five-and-ten-cent stores, this book illustrates and describes the extensive variety of glassware that was available to everyday consumers in the Depression years. Once a staple item along "Main Street, U.S.A.," dime stores such as Ben Franklin, S.S. Kresge, McCrory, G.C. Murphy, J.J. Newberry, and F.W. Woolworth sold attractive, practical glassware at affordable prices, ranging from tableware, tumblers, and jugs to crystal stemware and artistic cut glass. Today this merchandise has become highly collectible and is escalating in both price and demand. Using over 240 images, many drawn from original catalogues and advertisements, author C. L. Miller provides an informative and enjoyable guide for both new and experienced collectors. A brief history of the dime stores' most prosperous years sets the stage, followed by a wide array of the glassware sold. Current values for all items are included.

Like peering through the plate glass window of a Woolworth's, Kresge's, or J.J. Newberry's, this popular book reveals the wonderful array of dimestore merchandise that awaited homemakers and gardeners during our country's Depression era. Consumers in those years needed a convenient, affordable place to purchase necessities for the home--and dimestores had it all. Illustrated with over 200 images, many of them drawn from original catalogs and advertisements, this book is a virtual shopper's paradise of Depression era goods from the pretty to the practical: colorful dinnerware, cookware, salt and pepper shakers, cookie jars, linens, home decor, stationery, furniture, needlework, sewing notions, holiday decorations, gardening products, even supplies for the family pet. For all those who treasure memories of their local five-and-ten-cent store, this book is a must. Newly updated values are included for all items.

Over 500 photos chronicle the staggering array of Jewel Tea wares including china, cookware, coffee and teapots, premium products, children's toys, and more. The Jewel Tea Company of Chicago, Illinois reached a national market for its household products through salesmen and mail order catalogs from 1901 until 1981. The company's Autumn Leaf Pattern china-featured throughout the text-was widely distributed and frequently graced dinner tables earlier this century. It is fondly remembered and sought by today's collectors. Rarely seen Autumn Leaf wares are explored here, along with a brilliant assortment of better known pieces. A combination of modern color and historic black and white photographs chronicle the staggering array of Jewel Tea wares including china, cookware, coffee and teapots, premium products, children's toys, and more. There is something for everyone in this impressive, photograph-filled and thoroughly researched text with price guide.

The housewares for every purpose-including the well-known Autumn Leaf Pattern dinner wares, the stories of the salesmen who delivered them, and the history of the Jewel Tea Company that sent them forth are explored in great detail in this fascinating book. Over five hundred color and historic black & white photographs accompany the text. Among the product lines explored are Jewel Tea dining services and all the accoutrements to set the perfect table, kitchen wares and cookbooks, household products recommended to furnish the new bride's home, sales items for men only, and toys for children which may stir fond memories of your own. The chapter on unusual sales and premium items found only in collectors' homes today will delight all who are interested in this major twentieth century firm.

Skrevet i samarbejde med forfatterens mor, der er berømt ekspert på BBC's Antiques Roadshow.Da Freya Lockwoods gamle mentor Arthur Crockleford bliver fundet død i sin antikvitetsbutik i Freyas hjemby, tager hun hjem for at bo hos sin elskede, excentriske tante Carole. Det var gennem Carole, at Freya mødte Arthur og forelskede sig i antikviteter. I tilfælde af sin død har Arthur efterladt Freya og Carole et brev, fuld af gåder, som sender dem på en søgen efter Arthurs morder.Det viser sig, at Arthur har reserveret pladser til Freya og Carole til et weekendarrangement for antiksamlere på en isoleret engelsk herregård. Freya opdager hurtigt, at stedet er fuld af dårlige reproduktioner og forstår, at de lyssky gæster kun er kommet for at få fingrene i husets skjulte værdigenstande.Hvad foregår der på ejendommen, og kendte Arthur til forfalskningerne? Kan Freya og Carole optrevle sandheden, før morderen igen slår til? Og hvad er det, Arthur forsøger at fortælle dem fra graven?Antikjægerens guide til mord er første bind i den charmerende cosy crimeserie om antikjægeren Freya Lockwood.

Et maleri forsvinner fra et maritimt museum. Kort tid etter blir et lik funnet i nærheten. Saken bringer Freya Lockwood og tanten Carole ut på sitt mest risikofylte oppdrag hittil. Det nyopprettede Lockwood Antique Hunter’s Agency blir trukket inn i en sak som fører dem om bord på et eksklusivt antikvitetscruise mot Rødehavet. Der avdekker de et kunstgalleri fylt av stjålne gjenstander, alle omtalt i journalene til Freyas avdøde mentor. Sporene peker mot uløste forbrytelser – og en større sammenheng enn de først aner. Da ryktene om den myteomspunne kunstsmugleren «Samleren» begynner å sirkulere, skjønner de at de er i livsfare På et skip fullt av kunstelskere, hemmeligheter og kjente ansikter, må Freya og Carole avsløre morderen før det er for sent. Boken kombinerer en klassisk krimgåte med litterær finesse og et rikt miljø av kunst og antikviteter. En stemningsfull, intelligent og spennende hyggekrim som inviterer leseren inn i en verden der skjønnhet og forbrytelser går hånd i hånd.