Vintage Figural Tape Measures Collectors Guide- Sewing Tools 1820s & Up

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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.
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Collecting Figural Tape Measures by: Arbittier & Morphy
ISBN:
0887408664
Book Title:
Collecting Figural Tape Measures, With Price Guide
Author:
Elizabeth Arbittier, Douglas Arbittier, Janet Morphy, John Morphy
Binding:
Soft Cover
Copyright:
1995
Pages:
160
Size:
6 x 9 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
Tape measures, those useful sewing tools in imaginative cases, are now becoming a collecting passion. Presented here are over 700 tape measures in brass, wood, celluloid and porcelain figural shapes, dating back to the 1820s and up to the present. Over 500 color photographs show tape measures in hundreds of variations from animals and birds to people and their houses, and the captions describe their particular winding mechanisms. Each measure is also given a value range.
500 color photos
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