Aluminum Giftware (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Rating:
Summary: Pure Trash
Review: (...) There is scarcely a page that is free of factual error. There is even evidence of plaigarism, which, ironically, she plagiarized from an innacurate source. On the very few times she gets something right we can attribute it to the "broken clock syndrome," which tells us that even a broken clock is right twice a day. That is, the book is PURE TRASH.

William Freeman

Rating:
Summary: Uninformed Author
Review: The book vacillates between bad judgement, factual errors, and bad fiction. The pricing is misguided, a good share of the captions are factually incorrect, and far too many of the pieces pictured have not been properly cleaned. Any collector who is only slightly informed knows more about the genre than this author does. As a University Prof, I have used this book in the classroom to demonstrate that being in print "doesn't make it so."

William Freeman