ACCGC Price Guide Review

Price Guide Review

This section is provided for the carnival glass collectors searching for price guides to assist them in identifying and evaluating carnival glass. Air Capital Carnival Glass Club and its officers are not responsible for accuracy, claims made by the authors, or outcomes resulting from the use of this information.

General Statement about Price Guides: Carnival glass was handmade; therefore, every piece of carnival glass will vary in quality, condition and iridescence. Carnival glass may also be used or damaged. A single price is only a guide to its value. Quality, condition, iridescence, color, shape, defects, desirability, and competitive bidding at auctions, as well as other factors, may cause the price paid to be higher or lower than the one listed.

David Doty’s Carnival Glass Website

This web-site has the same information as the above printed guide. The web-site has 1600 pages with over 4000 color photographs and over 1100 patterns with up-to-date prices. The web-site is indexed by a number carnival glass features such as pattern, shape, motif, or maker. A search feature allows you to search the web-site. There are also special features such as: carnival links, photographs, contemporary and fake carnival glass. A popular site that had over 9.5 million hits last year. The web-site is provided free by Dave Doty, but is also supported by private and carnival glass club donations. www.ddoty.com

David Doty's New Field Guide to Carnival Glass for 2008 - NEW (6/03/2008)

Status: Now Available - For ordering information: Click here

Designed to be handy to use, the Field Guide is 6 x 9 inches. Within its 190 pages are listings for Carnival Glass patterns along with a photo of each pattern, a brief description, shapes found in each pattern, and price ranges for each shape in the colors available. Price reports are based on auction sales from the past 15 years with emphasis on the most recent years, up to and including some of 2008.

Mordini’s 2007 Carnival Glass Auction Prices, 23nd Edition
Tom and Sharon Mordini

This guide lists over 5000 items of carnival glass sold at major carnival glass auctions in the U.S. during the year 2007. Prices are listed alphabetically by pattern description and cross-referenced to the date of auction and auctioneer. The price guide also lists carnival glass reference material, clubs & associations, conventions and auctioneers. The format is 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, and convenient for easy reference and travel. Auction price guides from previous years may also be available. The 2007 report is $14.00 and available only from the author. Canadian orders should be by Canadian Postal money order in U.S. Funds. Overseas add (per report) $3.00 (International Money Orders in U.S. Funds). Order from: Tom & Sharon Mordini, 36 N Mernitz, Freeport, IL 61032, Phone (815) 235-4407, or email tommordini@aol.com .

Standard Encyclopedia of Carnival Glass 11^th Edition - 2008
by Mike Carwile

Status: Now Availavble for purchase. Item # 7623 - 4/8/2008

The eleventh edition introduces around 75 new patterns and over 245 replacement photographs upgraded with digital images for improved clarity, bringing this edition's total to over 2,000 color patterns. Grading information as well as new sections on base/feet identification and Inca bottle variations are also included. The bound-in 2008 price guide also includes virtually every piece of carnival glass ever made with prices given for various colors in each pattern. A multitude of both American and foreign companies are represented, and brief biographies on companies such as Dugan, Fenton, Imperial, Northwood, Cambridge, Westmoreland, Fostoria, Heisey, McKee, Jeannette, and the U.S. Glass Company. Collector Books, P.O. Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009, order online at www.collectorbooks.com Item Number: 7623. List Price: $29.95, postage not included.

Book Details: 10-digit ISBN #: 1-57432-576-0 or 13-digit ISBN #: 978-1-57432-576-8, 400 Pages, 2000 photographs, Hardback, Dimensions: 11.00" x 8.50" x 2.00"

Standard Companion to Non-American Carnival Glass (New 2006)
Bill Edwards and MIke Carwile

This new title focuses on non-American carnival glass,and features over 350 collectible patterns from Australia, England, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Sweden, and India. There is a brief section on foreign marks. Data given for each pattern and includes maker, date of manufacture, shapes, colors, and values. The guide format is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3/4 inch soft back with 336 pages. The book may be purchased from Collector Books, P.O. Box 3009, Paducah, KY 42002-3009, postage not included or online at www.collectorbooks.com - ISBN #: 1-57432-488-8, item #6927.

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