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Detail Rare
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 BARE ESCENTUALS RARE MINERALS NECK CREAM PLEASE READ DETAILS 17OZ  US $22.91
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 1910 S LINCOLN WHEAT CENT RARE FULL DATE NICE DETAILS NR US $3.25
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Pine furniture in the walnut-stained original condition is under extreme threat, as few collectors buy it for its originality but rather for its desirable honey colour after stripping and refinishing. This is a shame, as often a good original piece of pine shows up and is considered virtually unsaleable unless priced as a restoration piece. It is very difficult for devoted collectors of original pine, as even restorers will strip and sand these pieces because they are considered to be undesirable by most pine collectors.
Cedar furniture is certainly saleable in its original stale, but will sell faster and to a broader cross-section of the collecting community if cleaned and the finish brightened up which is disappointing to me as a collector involved in the conservation of furniture. Nevertheless cedar has gained acceptance in homes without having to be radically restored as it would have been 10 to 15 years ago, but unfortunately there is still much more being restored than conserved, which will continue until all of the original pieces have vanished.
Blackwood furniture I personally feel is not well received by the majority of collectors and is grossly under-estimated. It bears the stigma of being a 20th century cabinet timber hut has been used in this country since cabinet making began. There are many good examples of 19th century Blackwood furniture as well as superb furniture veneered in this timber with its beautiful figure. It is a first-class hardwood for all types of cabinet work, allowing for exceptional detail in turning work and extremely durable. Due to its hardness, however, it was more difficult to work and was less favoured as a cabinet timber until mechanised machinery was available.
Huon pine, probably the most highly regarded of our dominant native furniture timbers, is known for its brilliant birds-eye grain. Furniture in this timber is mostly acquired for its quality, originality and patina, as its followers are usually seasoned collectors that want only the best. One of its most important attributes is that it attains a beautiful mellow colour with age that most polishers have trouble replicating.
Australian furniture has been manufactured from every indigenous timber and also many exotic imports by master cabinet makers. Each piece should be appreciated for its own charm and character, be it decorative or utilitarian, and never underestimated. Remember, we are only guardians.
STEVEN & DENISE KOSZEK Gumnut Antiques and Restorations
This article has been written by Denise and Steven Koszek of Gumnut Antiques on the NSW Central Coast, Australia. Go to the online Antique Shop to browse antique furniture, jewellery, vases, pottery, and lots of other collectables.
We buy and sell antiques and collectables. Other services we offer are:
Purchasing and sales.
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Prunus Branch and Floral Detail from an Extremely Rare Famille Rose Bowl $34.99 Prunus Branch and Floral Detail from an Extremely Rare Famille Rose Bowl - Giclee Print |
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Detail of Rare, Old, Leatherbound Books on Shelf, Oxford, England $19.99 Jon Davison Detail of Rare, Old, Leatherbound Books on Shelf, Oxford, England - Photographic Print |
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Detail of a Seated Buddha Above Skulls on the Crown of Raktayamari, from a Rare and Imperial… $34.99 Detail of a Seated Buddha Above Skulls on the Crown of Raktayamari, from a Rare and Imperial… - Giclee Print |
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Detail of the Akshobhya Buddha, from a Rare and Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka $34.99 Detail of the Akshobhya Buddha, from a Rare and Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka - Giclee Print |
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Detail of the Amogghasiddhi Buddha, from a Rare Large Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka $34.99 Detail of the Amogghasiddhi Buddha, from a Rare Large Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka - Giclee Print |
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The Architectural Detail $29.71 The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in architecture. |
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Hydrangea and Blossom Enamel Detail from an Extremely Rare Hexagonal Famille Rose Bowl $34.99 Hydrangea and Blossom Enamel Detail from an Extremely Rare Hexagonal Famille Rose Bowl - Giclee Print |
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Detail of an Offering Goddess from a Fine, and Rare and Important Large Imperial Embroidered Silk… $34.99 Detail of an Offering Goddess from a Fine, and Rare and Important Large Imperial Embroidered Silk… - Giclee Print |
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Detail of the Manjusri Boddhisatva from a Rare and Important Large Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka $34.99 Detail of the Manjusri Boddhisatva from a Rare and Important Large Imperial Embroidered Silk Thanka - Giclee Print |
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A Very Rare Imperial Cinnabar Lacquer Nine-Dragon Portable Tea-Ceremony Chest (Detail) $34.99 A Very Rare Imperial Cinnabar Lacquer Nine-Dragon Portable Tea-Ceremony Chest (Detail) - Giclee Print |
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Detail in Typography $19.93 How is it that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull? How do you achieve perfect congruence between the type itself and its meaning? In Detail in Typography Jost Hochuli, master book designer and author of the seminal Designing Books, addresses the finer points of setting text. Hochuli begins with a consideration of how human beings read, moving on incrementally to considerations of letter, word, and line as well as word-space and line-space. Hochuli concludes by examining whole paragraphs and how they carry meaning. Produced in Switzerland to the highest standards, Detail in Typography embodies critical thinking and articulate design in its own physical form. |
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Detail in Process $58.55 What separates good architecture from great architecture? The difference lies in the details. The way an architect chooses to treat architectural detailing screens and walls, doors and windows, roofs, bridges, and stairs can transform the merely ordinary into the extraordinary. "Detail in Process," the second volume in the new AsBuilt series, features twenty-five awe-inspiring projects characterized by an unusual synthesis of aesthetics and materials: the sunshade at Morphosis's Student Recreation Center in Cincinnati; the embossed and perforated copper skin of Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum in San Francisco; the handrails at Mir Rivera Architects', Lake Austin Footbridge in Austin; the stairs at Heatherwick Studio's, Longchamp Store in New York City; plus twenty more. Editors Christine Killory and Ren Davids have collected the best work of the past two years including new buildings by some of today's most daring and detail-obsessed architects: Norman Foster, James Carpenter, John Ronan, Renzo Piano, Marmol Radziner, Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel, David Chipperfield, and SANAA. Comprehensively documented, Detail in Process includes the plans, details, and large-scale sections needed to appreciate the innovative ways these architects have responded to complicated design problems. |
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Analysis of Rare Categories $99 In many real-world problems, rare categories (minority classes) play essential roles despite their extreme scarcity. The discovery, characterization and prediction of rare categories of rare examples may protect us from fraudulent or malicious behavior, aid scientific discovery, and even save lives. This book focuses on rare category analysis, where the majority classes have smooth distributions, and the minority classes exhibit the compactness property. Furthermore, it focuses on the challenging cases where the support regions of the majority and minority classes overlap. The author has developed effective algorithms with theoretical guarantees and good empirical results for the related techniques, and these are explained in detail. The book is suitable for researchers in the area of artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning and data mining. |
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Analysis of Rare Categories (Hardcover) $168.85 In many real-world problems, rare categories (minority classes) play essential roles despite their extreme scarcity. The discovery, characterization and prediction of rare categories of rare examples may protect us from fraudulent or malicious behavior, aid scientific discovery, and even save lives. This book focuses on rare category analysis, where the majority classes have smooth distributions, and the minority classes exhibit the compactness property. Furthermore, it focuses on the challenging cases where the support regions of the majority and minority classes overlap. The author has developed effective algorithms with theoretical guarantees and good empirical results for the related techniques, and these are explained in detail. The book is suitable for researchers in the area of artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning and data mining. |
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Rare Personal Accounts of Abraham Lincoln $33.56 Author John E. Boos spent decades collecting the stories and signatures of people that had personal encounters with Abraham Lincoln. RailSplitter is publishing many of the rare personal accounts of Abraham Lincoln for the first time. These handwritten accounts give the reader insight into the personal life of Lincoln and include the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the ?Farewell to Springfield? speech, the Lincoln family train ride to Washington D.C., the failed assassination attempt, the White House years and conclude with the assassination and 21-day funeral procession to Springfield, IL. The personal accounts speak to Lincoln's oratorical ability, the quality of his character and the influence he had on people's lives. These narratives provide considerable detail about Lincoln, even down to the mud on his boots. Historical facts are also corroborated with a remarkable degree of objectivity and expressed in tones often lacking in writings by some historians who have attempted to explain history from the perspective of their own era. Some accounts may also shed new light on the Lincoln assassination and other important historical events. It is this uniqueness that makes reading ?Rare Personal Accounts of Abraham Lincoln? a wonderful experience for the casual reader and historian alike. These newly published writings of Boos and personal accounts of Lincoln are written by historically unknown figures as well as Union Army officials, well known politicians, academics and many others. |
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Surface Detail $23.25 It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A war - brutal, far-reaching - is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead, and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real and that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether. SURFACE DETAIL is Iain M. Banks' new Culture novel, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction. |
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Retail in Detail $7.34 If Retailing Is Your Dream, This Is the Guide To Help You Reach It Knowing that your success depends on the details, experienced retail entrepreneur Ronald L. Bond leaves no question unanswered when it comes to reaching your dream of starting and running your own retail business. Bond provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions, from planning the launch of your business to running your new venture. Learn how to: Budget for startup and establish a financial plan Select the ultimate location and develop your brand image Select, price and market your product Manage inventory to decrease expenses Keep your business up-to-date and competitive in the electronic age Meet legal and regulatory requirements Manage your daily operations Sparing you the trial and error that comes with starting a retail business from scratch, Bond shares firsthand experiences, lessons learned, and informative anecdotes that have helped thousands of aspiring retail entrepreneurs just like you ..".Bond offers convenience and genuine value to readers looking for a concise and thorough introduction to the retail enterprise...Realism and pragmatism are the shining virtues of Retail in Detail." - Evelyn Lager, ASD/AMD Trade News Snipe: Practical worksheets, budgeting guides and up-to-date costs and industry information included inside |
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Underwear: Fashion in Detail $36.37 Get intimately acquainted with the V&A's world-renowned collection of undergarments in this eye-opening visual history. From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps, "Underwear: Fashion in Detail "traces the peculiar evolution of underwear. Revealing photographs highlight close-up details in the garments, while intricate line drawings show their masterly construc-tion. A wide range of designs is represented, from rare 16th-century examples to Dior's curvaceous New Look, to Calvin Klein's notorious briefs. |
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The Final Detail $3.95 His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone is trying to kill him. Then Myron Bolitar gets some really bad news.... For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heaven when his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him back to reality: Esperanza is in trouble. It's time to come home. Now Myron is back in New York, determined to help Esperanza, his best friend and partner, who's been accused of killing one of their clients. But Esperanza isn't talking. Neither is her lawyer. And to prove his friend's innocence, Myron must trace the rise and fall of the victim, a pitcher who had been making a comeback with the Yankees. Suddenly the investigation is leading Myron to places he'd rather not go: into a family's agony, through the city's sexual underground, and to a moment buried on the dark side of a brilliant sports career.... Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitar tried to help an up-and-coming athlete. It was a fatal mistake-- and now Myron will have to pay the price.... |
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Specifications in Detail $40.13 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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Deadly Detail $15.61 It's Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan's lovely Athabaskan Indian wife, Angie. But his world is shattered when Stan is killed and assassins begin to stalk both Alex and Angie. On the run, trying to keep hidden, Alex tries to help Angie deal with her grief, and comes to realize how bleak his own bachelor lifestyle is. In a desperate, deadly game of cat and mouse, Alex and Angie search for the answers to two questions: who is trying to kill them? And why? Their search for answers takes them from Point Barrow to Valdez while the mysterious killers seem to keep one step ahead of them. Soon Alex and Angie realize that the slightest false step may well be be their last. |
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Attention to Detail: Women $3.95 This second book in the Attention to Detail series is the sister publication to Attention to Detail: A Gentleman's Guide to Professional Appearance and Conduct. Like the first, it covers the basics of grooming, proper business attire, interviewing and business etiquette - from a woman's perspective. |