Silver Christmas Ornaments: A Collector's Guide

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Summary: INFORMATIVE, DETAILED, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
Review: AS A NEW COLLECTOR OF STERLING CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE MOST INFORMATIVE AND DETAIL ORIENTED. THE PICTURES OF THE ORNAMENTS ALONG WITH EACH DESCRIPTION WAS MOST HELPFUL TO THE COLLECTOR. LOOKING FORWARD TO OBTAINING PAST GUIDES BY CLARA JOHNSON SCROGGINS.

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Summary: INFORMATIVE, PRECISE AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
Review: AS A NOVICE COLLECTOR, I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE MOST NFORMATIVE BUT NOT OVERWHELMING IN IT'S DESCRIPTIONS AND DETAILS OF SILVER CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS COLLECTING.

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Summary: Somewhat mediocre
Review: Original 1980 book is much more comprehensive in guidelines for a collector to include current priceguides. Her newest 1997 update has more enhanced ornament selection and discussion but poorly presented when it comes to valuating current market prices for these ornaments....what she does do is spend lots of time and print on the "issue price" for the older ornaments which I do not believe has merit from a collectors point of view......disappointing after waiting some 20+ years for an update....and still have to research further for information that was in her first edition of the book and missing in the much later and current 1997 update....if one is new to collecting silver ornaments it is easy to be impressed with all the newest silver and silverplate ornaments of the last 30 years to include photos for easy identification.