A Directory Of Antique Furniture Author:F. Lewis Hinckley A reference for dealers,sholars,and collectors of antique furniture. It provides a throughly reliable register of standards of Authentic Design for all types of antique furniture, European and American. The more than 1100 examples shown are classified precisely and beyond despute as to period and provenance. In effect, these pieces,shown in larg... more »e photographs with details clearly defined,serve as hallmarks and aid the reader in verifying and identifying almost any piece of antique furniture. As a result,many pieces of uncertain period and origin can identified definitely because of their similarity and relationship to the pieces shown in the book. And identifications already made can be conirmed or proved erroneous in the same way.« less