Antiques category: 2714 books

Serving collectors and dealers turned into the profitability of the small-size market, this edition delivers the most up-to-date census of small-size currency available. Readers will discover listings with precise population figures, serial number listings, 400 color photos and descriptions for experimental...

Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship provides an in-depth look at the foundations of solid and accurate handgun skills. Author Peter Lessler has constructed a user-friendly guide to getting on target and making the shot right away, every time you put your hand on the grip of your handgun. Inside...

Tips from the Master Gunsmith You Won't Find Anywhere Else! For the collector, for the hobbyist, for the amateur gunsmith, Antique Firearms Assembly/Disassembly is an invaluable reference tool. Written in plain English and profusely illustrated, Antique Firearms Assembly/Disassembly provides...

Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print, the Guide Book is well established as the hobby’s most popular reference. The Professional...

Since 1946 the Guide Book of United States Coins has served collectors as the preeminent annual reference for coin specifications, mintages, values, and photographs. With more than 22 million copies in print, the Guide Book is well established as the hobby’s most popular reference. The Professional...

How to Clean, Conserve, Repair, Restore, Replicate, Store, Photograph and Display Metal Detecting Finds For Fun And ProfitYou have worked hard to recover your finds, the last thing you want to do is to throw them in a drawer and leave them to corrode to dust, for if you don’t take a few basic...

A Beginners Guide to Metal Detecting, For a lot of folks, they hear the term ‘metal detecting’ and automatically imagine the crazy old guy they saw walking up and down the shoreline on their beach vacation last summer, But when you look at this surprisingly addictive hobby, there’s so much more...

In Cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution. United States Gold Coins have seen a popularity boom in recent years. Thousands of new collectors have discovered their rich and facinating history and appeal. Important collections, locked away for decades have come to light, and a new research has...

Whether it's the mintage of a South African 10 Thebe you're wondering about, or perhaps you'd like to know what image is depicted on the 5 Kwacha coin, or if the flower-lake shape of the 10 cent piece of Swaziland is real, or a sign of a fake, the 2012 Coins of Canada digital download is the place to get the answers to these and many more about South African coins.

This comprehensive guide to decimal coins (with Bank of England circulating notes added as a bonus) - which can trace it's history back over 50 years - puts all the rumours straight and also acts as an excellent collectors' guide to decimal coinage 1968 - 2017. Details are given on the mintage...

Few Books have taken the coin-collecting community by storm like the Cherrypicker's Guide to Rare Die Varieties. This handy book tells you how to cherrypick rare coins - how to examine a collection of otherwise normal coins looking for unusual characteristics: doubled and tripled dies overdates repunched...

At the dawn of the age of air mail communications, the US Post Office Department forged new alliances with European air lines that would enable Americans to speed up delivery of their mail to and from distant places overseas. This is the story of those alliances told in a chronological way and copiously...

In this single, easy-to-use and affordable download you will find detailed descriptions, updated values in multiple grades, and high-quality illustrations of every Central American coin issued in the 20th century. Every coin from every corner of the country are included in this affordable download.

The Complete Guide to Check Collecting is a comprehensive, illustrated resource for collectors of bank checks, autographs, revenue stamps, and paper ephemera. Author Michael Reynard makes it clear why check collecting has been increasing in popularity over the last decade, as financial transactions become...