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€ 68.08 The history of the 18 leading luxury wristwatch companies of Switzerland richly illustrated with beautiful photos. Here are the most... € 67.78 € 57.61 Instead of hiding the mechanical workings of the clock, skeleton clocks celebrated them, leaving them visible for all to marvel at. The...
€ 68.97 After the tremendous reception their first book received, Stuart Schneider and George Fischler went to work on this, their second volume. To... € 64.35 € 54.70 This delightful book covers the lighter side of horological history. Comic character timepieces from the earliest clocks to the present day...
€ 60.79 € 51.67 Colorful plastic toys from the 1940s and '50s including cars, trucks, airplanes, dolls and dollhouse furniture are displayed and identified... € 34.84 A lavishly illustrated and comprehensive retrospective of commercial costume jewelry from the 18th to the 20th century. In addition to...
€ 69.38 The automatic mechanism was a major advance in the history of the wristwatch. The successful design became the hallmark of the skilled Swiss... € 50.96 Over 650 color photos of individual houses, several hundred pieces of furniture made of metal, wood, paper and plastic, and delightful full...
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€ 59.11 Hooked to a steam engine or operated by hand, these pieces move- mills grind, blacksmiths hammer, Ferris wheels and carousels revolve,...
€ 25.78 Happy hours spent on your snow sleds are recalled with this compendium of Flexible Flyers and many other brands. This is the first... € 34.58 J. Chein & Co. was an important tin toy company during the Golden Age of toymaking in America until the 1970s. Over 450 color photos of...
€ 35.00 All the questions about Bakelite answered in a colorful, richly illustrated book. Designed to inform as well as delight, this book shows how... € 51.09 A groundbreaking study of the development of mechanical and metal cased pencils in the nineteenth century. Illustrated with over 700...
€ 25.44 € 21.62 Included are soldiers, sailors, cowboys, Indians, space men and spies that populated the action figure world from 1964 to 1969. Over 300... € 25.84 A celebration of the revolutionary ball point pen, illustrated with more than 450 color photos. Collectors and historians will be fascinated...
€ 12.64 Detailed instructions on the design, turning, and finishing of this distinctive humidor. Helpful hints and practical advice useful to... € 21.20 € 18.02 A zigzag tour through seventy years of stripes in fabric design. Nearly 600 pictures of historic fabric swatches from all over the world...
€ 25.80 € 21.93 Taken from the pages of the Sears Catalog, here are the fashion statements of the early 1970s. It was the age of the mini-skirts,... € 16.95 € 14.41 Fast food restaurants around the world have distributed hundreds of promotional toys based on Disney characters and this book contains a...
€ 25.85 Over 400 color photos illustrate the development of the necktie from 1900 through the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, the War years, and... € 24.85 € 21.12 Fabric colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal as much about a culture as do the furnishings and clothing that relied on the fabrics....
€ 13.00 The variety of packing trunks and carrying bags from the 1890s for salesmen, tradesmen, bankers, doctors, and travelers shown here will... € 21.49 During the 1940s, rubber toys that squeak became the most popular crib toy. Later, reed devices were developed to generate different sounds...
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