This comprehensive book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business. Author Jacquelyn Peake shares her experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based antiques business.

Both amateur and professional collectors will find invaluable support ranging from tips on basic protocol at various venues, to concrete answers--including the 10 criteria for gauging worth and the top 10 auction bargains. Be it eBay or Sotheby's, readers will gain the know-how to approach auctions with confidence.

An entertaining, informative, down-to-earth guide to a wide range of collectibles and antiques. This is the book you need to take with you when you go out in search of treasure!

This is clearly a book for the novice, "a brief overview of the types of collectibles that are brought most often to Antiques Roadshow." It provides highly informative chapters on ceramics, advertising, glass, sports collectibles, toys, fashion and textiles, dolls and doll accessories, wristwatches, photography, entertainment memorabilia and furniture.

With great wit and wisdom, Joe L. Rosson and Helaine Fendelman help you identify, understand, and determine the potential value of any type of antique or collectible. Price It Yourself! not only explores all the basic concepts and skills that you must know in order to value an antique accurately, it is also filled with practice appraisals to help you develop an "eye" for value.

This is the book for those who enjoy picking up a bargain at an antique market or junk shop and giving it a new lease on life. You don't have to be an expert to get results. Many of the tips and techniques included require no experience in antique restoration.