For collectors and decorators, for apartment dwellers as well as home owners, for auction lovers and all bona fide browsers. If your eyes light up at the sight of a stoneware jug, a grandfather clock or a luminous Tiffany window... then this book is for you. If you passion is furniture and you would like to learn how to identify the styles and the periods, country pieces, Philadelphia pieces and European pieces... then this book is for you. If you can't wait to start your own hoard of buttons and bottles and dolls and you want to know how to tell the real from the fake... then thiis book is for you. And if you haven't the time to haunt museums and auctions, but you still want to know as much of the history and background of fine porcelains, or if you want to distinguish between American and English silver, or arts and crafts, or fabrics, or any hundred other collectibles...then this book is emphatically for you.