Collecting For Tomorrow - BOXES

  How often have you wished that you had taken up an area of collecting before
all the prices went up?  Boxes is one of a series designed to help you do just that.

For the collector, boxes are one of the most fascinating and unexpectedly varied
areas of interest.  Many of those described and illustrated in this book can still
be put to their original use; many of them are wonderfully decorative in theirown
right; and many of them are worth collecting just for their curiosity value.  There
are items here in silver, enamels and wood; in addition the author covers generally
unexplored materials such as plastics, tin, and cardboard.  The examples in the
book range in date from the Victorian period to the mid-1930's.  Both American
and European boxes are fully covered.

This book is specially devised for the beginner, as well as for the experienced
collector.  It is illustrated with 48 beautiful full-page photographs, 24 of them
in colour, all of them specially taken. 

Introduction  :  Glossary

Salt boxes  :  Cutlery and candle boxes  :  Shaker  :  Kitchen and store boxes

knife boxes  :  Transfer prints  :  Cardboard  :  Games boxes  :  Games & puzzles

Faience  :  Money boxes  :  Tobacco boxes  :  Cigarette boxes  :  Cigar boxes

Tunbridge Ware  :  Silver  :  Decorative enamel  :  Dressing-table boxes 

Fitted boxes  :  Needlework boxes  :  Needles & pins  :  Japanese lacquer

Snuff boxes  :  Papier-mache  :  Painted wood  :  Pictorial paper-machie

Jasperware  :  Utility boxes  :  Glass  :  Visiting-card cases

Striking-match boxes  :  American trampwork  :  Tin  :  Enamel  :  Wood

Scottish boxes  :  Ivory  :  Early photograph holders  :  Writing & stationary boxes

Toilet boxes  :  Vinaigrettes  :  Art Nouveau  :  1930s boxes  :  Oriental boxes

Tea caddies & chests  :  Decanter boxes  :  Mother-of-pearl

Bibliography  :  Index