| Collector Bookstore 724 Delaware Street Leavenworth, KS 66048 |
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration. |
SO-SCH-2015-9780764348136-X3
Toy Forts & Castles: European-Made Toys of the 19th & 20th Centuries by Allen Hickling
| ISBN: | 9780764348136 |
| Book Title: | Toy Forts & Castles: European-Made Toys of the 19th & 20th Centuries |
| Author: | Allen Hickling |
| Binding: | Hard Cover with dust jacket |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 344 |
| Size: | 11.5 x 9 in. |
Contained within this authoritative text is the exciting history of the manufacture of toy forts and castles in western Europe throughout the turbulent nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 800 images, this book provides detailed information on who made these castles, palaces, and fortresses, when, where, and how, and with what materials. The author focuses especially on manufacturers in Germany and Great Britain, but covers Denmark, Belgium, and France as well--and describes the fascinating story of the industry's rise and demise. Company histories show how these manufacturers, often successive generations of families, dealt with the enormous economic and political obstacles of the times. Organized spreadsheets with serial numbers, dates, dimensions, and distinctive features of products will satisfy the curiosities of toy collectors, museum curators, archivists, antique dealers, architectural history buffs, and more.
772 color photos
(SO Schiffer Categorical generated 2024-05-05)
4c88d2bee5fdeaa6da9fdab5ec9120f7