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This volume deals with Excavated art from Europe Asia and America as well as Asian and African art

This volume deals with objects of silver, bronze, other metals, prints, books, clocks, walking sticks, stones, gemstones, amber, enamel, dolls, fans, and musical instruments

With this guide to detecting fakes you will always have a trusted expert by your side when you shop for antiques or visit exhibitions or fairs ready to provide you with clear and straightforward answers as to the authenticity and originality of the items that arouse your interest.

In the present edition, therefore, the reader will find that a great deal of new matter has been introduced and the general plan of the book has been readjusted to meet. The demands of a logical development of the subject. The field of textile chemistry and the processing of textile fibers has taken on new proportions during the past ten years. To mention only one branch of the subject, the artificial silk industry, for example, has expanded until at the present time more artificial silk is made than is obtained as a natural product from the silkworm. The use of mercerised cotton has become an established factor in the cotton industry and has become stabilised into a standard process. The World War caused much research into the possibilities of utilising other fibers than those normally employed, and we find a great variety of experimenting, such as in the spinning of the so called staple fiber yarns. Some of these sporadic attempts have passed out with the necessity of their use, while others have… Read More

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. It is a reprint of Joel Munsell's 1876 book

This book covers extenders and pigments, it inlcudes natural and processed inorganics and synthetic organics, closing with a chapter on additives. It is concerned with the chemistry of manufacture to the extent that it applies to pigment morphology, and dispersing behavior, but in the main, it provides an overview of where specific pigments have made their greatest contributions to the ocatings industry