"Entertaining and accessible, 'Good, Better, Best' coaches novices and devotees in choosing the highest quality items. It does this by featuring three photographs of a good, better, and best example of hundreds of antiques that, together, show the antiquer exactly how to distinguish the treasure from the not a treasure. Packed with more than two hundred full-color photographs, this ingenious handbook is broad in scope and covers everything from brass doorsteps and porcelain plates to silver napkin rings and coffee tables from America and Europe..."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes index.

Nineteenth-century enameled glass -- Midcentury dining chairs -- Oriental rugs -- Cat paintings -- American tea tables -- Silver cream pitchers -- Doorstops -- American neoclassical (Empire) center tables -- Parian -- American Pilgrim chests -- Nineteenth-century American dolls -- Globes -- Audubon prints -- Sterling napkin rings -- Windsor chairs -- Twentieth-century American hand-painted porcelain -- Nakashima coffee tables -- Cocktail shakers -- Silhouettes -- Blue glass -- Eighteenth-century English porcelain figures -- English tea tables -- Rose medallion punch bowls -- Antique silver plate -- Teddy bears -- American longcase clocks -- Art deco jewelry -- Nineteenth-century English porcelain figures -- Garden seats -- American classical card tables -- Blankets -- Nineteenth-and twentieth-century European dolls -- Candlesticks -- Klismos chairs -- Dollhouses -- American plates -- Clear glass compotes -- Midcentury coffee tables -- Figural napkin holders -- Twentieth-century American Shirley Temple dolls -- American shelf clocks -- Chinese Chippendale -- Aluminum -- Dog paintings -- Nineteenth-century continental porcelain -- Decorative longcase clocks -- Suzanis -- Art glass compotes -- English Regency card tables -- Midcentury lamps -- Pilgrim chairs -- Twentieth-century American porcelain -- Toast racks -- Cameo glass -- Twentieth-century sliver plate -- Eighteenth-century European dolls -- Continental empire tables -- Teapots -- Weather vanes -- Four-poster beds -- Sunburst mirrors -- Midcentury dining tables -- Travel posters -- Eighteenth-century continental porcelain figures -- Wineglasses.