This complete guide to buying, selling, creating, and preserving antique quilts features descriptions and actual sellingprices for historic quilts sold at auction. There are also invaluable hints for starting a collection, caring for old quilts, and making new ones based on vintage patterns. Full-color photographs of major sold quilts accompany descriptions of the quiltsi history, final sale price, and provenance. Also included are the most complete"prices realized" listings of actual quilt sales ever published, as well as quilting patterns to make your own historical quilt reproduction, a baby quilt, a full-size quilt, and a quilt block. The book also presents histories of the famous auction houses involved in selling many of theclassic quilts.
