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By JAY MOORE

Tribune correspondent

Published: December 7, 2008

I own an interesting hardback book titled "Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart" by Clifford McCarty. It is a first edition published in 1965 by The Citadel Press. Does it have any value?

R.E.

Richmond, Va.

The Citadel Press published a series of filmographies during the 1960s. Kensington Publishing in New York City uses the Citadel imprint. Kensington has been around for about 30 years.

This used book would retail for about $12. I normally do not evaluate books because it is such a broad field; however, this edition is interesting and would appeal to hardcore movie lovers.

I have been researching this glass bowl to no end and cannot find any answers. It has been handed down through the family. It has a bumblebee mark. I believe it's 70 or 80 years old. What can you tell me?

V.A.

Riverview

You have a pressed glass bowl made by the John B. Higbee Glass Co. in Bridgeville, Pa., around 1915. Higbee, an offshoot of the Bryce Brothers glass factory that began around 1850, went out of business in 1918.

It is imitation cut glass, which was extremely popular during the first quarter of the 20{+t}{+h} century. It was a less expensive alternative to real cut glass, which only the affluent could afford to buy.

This small pressed glass bowl appears to be in Higbee's popular Fortuna pattern and would retail for about $10.

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