Once upon a time on the Internet: In 1997 François-Paul Besch founded Collect-Online.Com (now www.CollectOs.com), one of the first Portal Sites for Collectors worldwide. In April 2008 the well known Collector and Expert of Antique Advertising Arts started his new Internet Project: Collectors@, The Collecting Community. Although only little more than three weeks old, the Directory of Collectors@ already counts more than 3.000 listed member sites! Beside informations on Antiques, Arts and all kind of ... Read The Full Story

THE first (Shanghai) China Antique and Artwork Exposition opens tomorrow at the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Center. Organized by Shanghai Yunzhou Antique City, the four-day event features a high-end display section and previews by auction houses. The display area has 153 booths selling jade, ink-wash paintings, stone carvings, bronze vessels, antique furniture and gilded Buddhas. The artworks come from all over China, including Beijing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Some are from private overseas ... Read The Full Story

(St. Charles, Mo.) – Four important collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass – the rare and often colorful decorative glass pieces made mostly in this country between 1876 and 1916 and highly sought after by collectors – will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 31st, at the St. Charles Convention Center, starting at 9:30 a.m.. The sale will be held by Woody Auction of Douglass, Kansas. One collection in particular figures to stand out from the rest — that of Bill and Alta Barnett of Colts ... Read The Full Story

Antique dealer Mark Scherzer is selling a large portion of his 300+ pieces of Vaseline Glass at the Historic Burlington Antique and Art Emporium in Burlington City, New Jersey. Collecting for more than 20 years, Mark states, “I love the mystery of the glass and how it glows in the sunlight, but I must downsize.” Created in the mid 1800’s, Vaseline Glass was not perfected until the late 1890’s. Glassblowers added small amounts of uranium oxide to their glass formulas, creating a brilliant yellow colored ... Read The Full Story

Flamingo Eventz is very pleased to announce the return and revitalization of the only antique Book and Paper Shows in Westchester – now at a fabulous new location – the newly built, luxurious DoubleTree Hotel, in Tarrytown, New York. “The dealers want this show and the customers want this show, and they want it in Tarrytown where it originated,” said Tina Bruno of Flamingo Eventz. “We have found the ideal new hotel just a few blocks from the original hotel, one that is easily reached by the New ... Read The Full Story