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Summary: An antiques expert explains different resources available for collecting antique iron stone in this free video on collecting antiques.
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About the Expert
Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
Collecting iron stone we talked about how many different types of patterns how many different types of shapes and how many different types of dinnerware you can buy I highly recommend that you go and buy some resource books to look at. It would give you a variety of different shapes and sizes and price ranges to look at so there are specific iron stone books that you can buy. This is just a general very inexpensive book that has a little bit of everything in it you will find some specific on iron stone in here it's a very inexpensive less than $15 for these Shroeders antique price guide books. This is a later version they come out with one every year so this is an expensive way to just to start look at the different types of iron stone. You can get into specifics books that are just geared toward of what we were talking about earlier which is the tea leaf pattern, or you can get into LaMoush iron stone, or you can get into just plain white iron stone. All these books are available to you and I highly recommend that you go out and take a look at all the different types of iron stone that you can collect. Your resources are right here in your books that you can find at either at Barnes and Nobles you can find them on the internet you can find them on Amazon.com, Ebay. You can go to your local library that's a great resource if they don't have them they can usually get for you so this is a good place to start before you start investing in iron stone.