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Here
at last is a thorough guide The Best of Collectible
Dinnerware showing all of the most collected
dinnerware. In one volume this book provides
an excellent survey of the best companies and
their most popular lines. The important California
companies, including the Wallace China Company,
Catalina Pottery, B.J. Brock & Co., and Gladding,
McBean & Co. along with other companies nationwide
including the Crooksville Art Pottery Co., Frankoma,
and the Hall China Company, are among the many
potteries represented. The contributions of
famous designers such as Ben Seibel, Russel
Wright, Eva Zeisel, and Sascha Brastoff are
explored. Extensive research has uncovered new
information on many of the companies and designers.
Over 300 clear photos, extracts from catalogs
and advertisements, historical photos, and a
well-documented text will help to identify dinnerware,
to trace changing technological and design trends,
and to showcase an industry in its heyday. As
the journey to uncover and identify all the
American produced dinnerware from the twentieth
century continues, this book serves as an important
milestone and an important reference.
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