GuntherHess
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How about full page pix of bikini models holding valuable bottles?
Are you offering to model???
How about full page pix of bikini models holding valuable bottles?
ORIGINAL: GuntherHess
How about full page pix of bikini models holding valuable bottles?
Are you offering to model???
talk to Ed and Lucy Faulkner. They have been doing the only new ink book out there for the last decade for a while. It's ring bindered and self published (they did it through some local publisher and have copies made when they sell them). It's not perfect, but it is a heck of a lot more in depth than Covill when it comes to details about the various manufacturers.
Things they did right. Color, as many inks as they could get access to, pictures of all. Excellent detail with papers for various manufacturers when they could get them, and as much research as possible.
Things I think could use improvement. I'd like to see the bottles ordered solely by manufacturer name. I'd like to see ALL the bottles from one manufacturer under that manufacturer's name (they did SOME bottles by type umbrella etc and some under manufacturer). I think they should have tried to get permission to use Covill pics for bottles they couldn't get access to (don't know if that was possible but it would be a more complete listing of every ink that exists). They emphasize that it was not their intent to document EVERY ink. I think you have been trying to diligently document every medicine.
I'm not big on the price guide. It's out of date before you publish it, and, as debate on here indicates, value is very subjective on the best of dates.
EARLY GLASSWORKS OF CALIFORNIA
I have been working on a LONG term book project about early medicines made in the first 30 years of the 19th century. Its a tough subject to research and I think its info that currently isnt very available to collectors. I may go the fancier full metal jacket approach on that one.