Roseville Pottery, For Love Or Money blends the nostalgic memory of a once famous American pottery product with a down-to-earth appraisal of its investment value.

For Roseville collectors, it explores the Roseville Pottery Company records to reveal more than 230 pottery lines and patterns, some forgotten for decades. Almost all are pictured, close-up and big and in full color. It lingers over the rare 1905 ROZANE catalogue, lovingly reproducing whole pages; and, it leafs through later catalogues to find the oldest and the rarest lines, and to select more than 60 pages for photocopy reprint. It peruses early newspapers, and gathers data from turn-of-the-century magazines and trade journals. It surveys later-day and current Roseville writings, and footnotes every reference to document it within the framework of a bibliography listing more than 90 books and articles and sources of related information.

For Roseville traders, each line is evaluated on the basis of scarcity and collector preference. A summary chart surveys scarcity and value at a glance. There's a set of collector-tested rules for buying or selling Roseville, the low-down on artists' marks and logos, and drawings of 40 company trademarks.