This visual tour of an important great collection of authentic country store antiques has hundreds of color photographs with detailed captions, including prices. It will provide an opportunity to examine the history of popular culture and its retailing beginnings. The book includes counters, fixtures, and lighting, as well as hundreds of products, advertisements, and packaging that would be found in a country store. The collection represents some of the finest treasures of the genre. And everyone can experience the joys of window shopping...a hundred years ago. AUTHOR: Rich Bertoia lives in Vineland, New Jersey. An auction cataloguer at Bertoia Auctions, his articles routinely appear in major antique magazines. This is his second book.
