Ring the alarm! Firefighting historians and fire fighting collectors won’t be able to set this book down.  With over 250 pages crammed full of firefighting collectibles including uniforms, tools, signs, old photographs, lanterns, alarm boxes, badges, fire extinguishers, and many more firefighting collectables that enabled the old time firefighter to survive his task more easily. An eight page full color section accentuates some of the nicer fire fighting antiques, while all appear illustrated or photographed in detail with accompanying descriptions. For those who long to expand their firefighting collectible collections.

 Testimonial for firefighting collectables

 I recently started collecting antique firefighting collectibles which goes along with my career as a firefighter. As a beginner it is difficult to get an idea of how much these firefighting collectibles are actually worth. I was recently in an firefighting collectables antique mall in Nebraska when I came across Andrew Gurka’s book entitled Firefighting Collectibles. As I was browsing through the illustrated pages of his book I noticed that quite a few of the firefighting collectibles I had been looking at were featured in the book and the prices being asked were very much lower than the quoted suggested prices in the book. Needless to say, I purchased the items and the book which I refer to every time I search for a new item. It is filled with a variety of items from A-Z and lists suggested values for the items which you can use as a comparison for the items you are interested in. The prices shown in the book are from 1996 so you should keep that in mind when you are looking at collectibles. This is definately the book for the beginning collector.

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