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Author: Gene Florence
Publisher: Collector Books
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$24.95~~
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 313057

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 271
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 1574322575
Dewey Decimal Number: 738
EAN: 9781574322576

Publication Date: July 2002
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This is the first salt & pepper shaker book for Gene Florence. Over 5,000 full color photos are featured. Categories include advertising products, animals, Christmas, decorative, ethnic groups, famous characters, gambling, glass, heads, lamps and lighting, metal, miniature, musical, nodders, Occupied Japan, plastic/celluloid, pottery, religious, risque, souvenir, sports, steins, transportation, Western themes, wood, and World's Fairs. Famous potteries are represented - Lefton, Holt Howard, Vandor, Shawnee, and more. Depression glass shakers are also included. 2005 values. AUTHORBIO: A collector since childhood, Gene Florence's hobby of buying and selling glassware turned into a full-time career. First writing a book on Depression Glass, Florence has gone on to author many popular glassware titles including books on Depression Glass; Occupied Japan Collectibles; Kitchen Glassware; Very Rare Glassware; 40s, 50s, & 60s Glassware;Elegant Glassware; Stemware; Glassware Pattern Identification; Anchor Hocking's Fire-King; Glass Candlesticks; and Salt & Pepper Shakers. REVIEW: You'll find all kinds of shakers in this excellent reference. They're grouped alphabetically, from Animals to World's Fair. There are listings by subject matter and by material. There is an excellent section on glass shakers, including Depression, Elegant, and kitchenware examples. Altogether, over 3,000 different shakers have been pictured. Dealers and collectors alike should find it a very useful book. The pictures, in full color, are excellent and the format is easy to use.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

S&P collecting August 25, 2008
I almost didn't buy this book since the reviews were fairly low, but thumbed through it twice upon receiving it...I think it one of the best books in my collection. It covers most materials used in making S&Ps, identifies a lot of the makers, (Shawnee, Occupied Japan, Hazel Atlas, etc.), the photography is good, & I'm very pleased with the information it has given me. I know it will become a well thumbed book for searching.

4 out of 5 stars

Great Gift Book - Very well received January 21, 2007
Book was a big hit with a growing collector - some shaker's categories could be expanded upon with more detail and photos - but overall a success...

1 out of 5 stars

Not pleased April 8, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

This was the first book I bought on Salt and Pepper Shakers. I didn't find it helpful at all. Unless you just want a collection of S&P books, don't waste your money.

4 out of 5 stars

Nice Starter Book September 15, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

The book has tons of pictures. Some of the sets shown are not "true" sets. It is a great book to get a general idea of all the many themes of salt and pepper collecting. High end and low end are all well represented. It was fun to see sets I never knew existed that I would like to have. It gave me more stuff to look for in auctions. It's always fun to add to collections!

2 out of 5 stars

Erroneous Valuations. May 14, 2004
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

The monetary valuations of Salt & Pepper Shakers in this book are virtually useless to either a collector or seller. I have never seen a book so totally unresearched on both pricing and product description. The majority of the photos of the S&P's do not describe the material utilized in their construction, so one is left wondering if they are looking at plastic, metal or other material.
No person interested in Salt & Pepper collecting should buy this as their first book. If you do, you'll be in for a big surprise when you try to buy an S&P that has been valued in this book for $12, but is belling for $48.
For the more seasoned collector, it does have some decent pictures, but is more or less a rehash of better produced S&P Collecting books.
If you've been collecting S&P's for over 6 months, you'll realize that this is a piece of utter tripe; execpt for the photos of the S&P's.

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