You may be the owner of a valuable piece of porcelain or pottery, but the cryptic symbol on the underside of the piece may be your only clue to its value. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: 1850 to the Present will help you identify your pieces.
Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks provides the quickest and easiest way for professional and amateur collectors to identify more than 3,500 American, European, and Oriental marks. The perfect companion to the Kovels' original best-seller, Kovels' Dictionary of Marks — Pottery and Porcelain: 1650 to 1850 (still in print after more than 42 years and 41 printings), Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks is the most comprehensive reference for nineteenth- and twentieth-century marks. Together, the two volumes are an indispensable guide to porcelain and pottery marks of the last four centuries.
Also available from Three Rivers Press, Kovels' Dictionary of Marks—Pottery & Porcelain: 1650 to 1850
The illustrated guide to pottery and porcelain.
"What the Kovels don't know about antiques isn't worth knowing."
—House Beautiful
"The Kovels are arguably the authorities on antiques and collectibles in this country."
—Los Angeles Times
Ralph and Terry Kovel are the best-known writers on antiques and collectibles in America. They have written more than 75 books, including the annual Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List. Their national newsletter, Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles, has over 150,000 subscribers. The Kovels also write columns for House Beautiful and 150 newspapers, publish articles, and appear on television and radio talk shows.
They published their first guide, the Dictionary of Marks: Pottery and Porcelain in 1953. The first edition of Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles, published in 1968, was the first commercially published book to be sold in bookstores that was written and printed on a computer.
Since then, the Kovels have steadily expanded their reach as foremost authorities on old stuff of all kinds. The Kovels have been on television since their 1969 public-television series Know Your Antiques. Their current television program, the award-winning Flea Market Finds with the Kovels, begans its second season on HGTV (Home and Garden Television) in the fall of 2002. They also have a syndicated newspaper column.
Since 1974 the Kovels have published a national subscription-only newsletter, Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles, which has more than 150,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada.
The Kovels are obsessive collectors, and they still make room for new "finds" in their antiques-filled home in Ohio. Their most recent purchase: an 1880s shoeshine stand. They still haven't figured out where they'll put that one. The Kovels home also includes a library filled with 18,000 books about antiques, although they do find time for other types of reading -- Ralph tends to read business-related books, while Terry especially enjoys murder mysteries.
Terry taught math at a boys' school. Ralph has been in the food business as a manufacturer and executive for years, which explains the 1890s country store in their basement.
The Kovels' strangest claim to fame: They once were offered as shopping companions as part of a prize on a Publishers Clearinghouse contest. They were the subject of a question on the TV game show Jeopardy, cited as experts on an episode of the TV series Northern Exposure, and mentioned in a murder mystery by Elmore Leonard.
| How to Use This Book: An Introduction | x | |
| Anchor | 1 | |
| Animals, Fish & Insects | 4 | |
| Arrows | 16 | |
| Banners | 18 | |
| Birds | 22 | |
| Bowl & Urn | 27 | |
| Building & Tower | 29 | |
| Cartouches | 33 | |
| Circle--Oval | 38 | |
| Crescent | 79 | |
| Crown | 79 | |
| Crown & Circle or Oval | 99 | |
| Crown & Shield | 110 | |
| Fleur de Lis & Prince of Wales Feathers | 117 | |
| Flower & Tree | 118 | |
| Foreign Alphabets | 124 | |
| Humans & Body Parts | 126 | |
| Lines | 129 | |
| Miscellaneous | 133 | |
| Musical Instruments | 138 | |
| Shield | 139 | |
| Square, Rectangle & Other Geometric Shapes | 146 | |
| Star & Sun | 153 | |
| Triangle & Heart | 154 |
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Overview
You may be the owner of a valuable piece of porcelain or pottery, but the cryptic symbol on the underside of the piece may be your only clue to its value. Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: 1850 to the Present will help you identify your pieces.
Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks provides the quickest and easiest way for professional and amateur collectors to identify more than 3,500 American, European, and Oriental marks. The perfect companion to the Kovels' original best-seller, ...