This September 30 – October 4, shoppers can also go to Marburger Farm for Country Living Magazine’s 30th anniversary celebration. On Tuesday, September 30, Country Living will host a book-signing for Marburger Farm exhibitor Robin Brown, founder of Magnolia Pearl. On Wednesday, October 1, the magazine’s editors will offer demonstrations on living [Read More]
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(St. Charles, Mo.) – A pair of outstanding single-owner lifetime firearms collections will be sold without reserve in two auctions slated for Saturday, September 6, at the St. Charles Convention Center. The two-session event will be conducted by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Ks. Both collections were amassed by dedicated firearms collectors [Read More]
Atlanta, GA – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Autograph World, LLC has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Autograph World will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With information [Read More]
The Collinsville Antiques Company announces that kitschy collector and author C. Dianne Zweig www.cdiannezweig.com, has opened her shoppe “Kitsch-N-Stuff” at this ever popular multi-dealer antique emporium.located on Route 44 in New Hartford, Connecticut. Specializing in retro chic, nifty nostalgia and groovy mod, Kitsch-N-Stuff appeals to baby boomers and younger collectors who are [Read More]
The All-Dairy Antiques & Collectibles Show announces its 2008 schedule. This unique show will be hosted by the All-American Dairy Show in the Dairy Activity Center of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Show schedule will be Saturday, September 13 to Wednesday, September 17, with hours from 8 [Read More]
Grey Flannel Auctions’ team of experts will conduct a free appraisal event – Sports Appraisals at Center Court – from 2-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 8, at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The specialists who will be on hand include Nick Coppola (uniforms), Joey Esposito (cards and [Read More]
(Hyannis, Mass.) – Nearly 300 lots of items from local estates in a broad range of categories will be offered at a Summer Antiques & Nautical Auction to be held Saturday, July 26, at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel on Route 132 in Hyannis, next door to the Cape Cod Mall. The sale [Read More]
Theriault’s May 31 antique doll auction in Chicago was titled “A Fine Pretending Tea,” a phrase from a poem about doll’s tea parties. But there was no pretending about this auction. The dolls were abundant and awesome. The collectors responded, and prices soared. Buyers flocked to the auction and bid in person, [Read More]
A very rare example of John Arrowsmith’s important Map of Texas, published in 1841 when Texas was an independent republic, is to be sold at auction by PBA Galleries in San Francisco on July 24th, 2008. Produced a few years after Texas achieved her independence from Mexico, the finely engraved, hand-colored map [Read More]
Bayko was the world’s first plastic construction toy and was produced in Liverpool between 1934 and 1964. It is an architectural toy and can be used to build a wide range of buildings from a simple shed to a Skyscraper “limited only by the child’s imagination” as early literature said. The Bayko [Read More]
The third annual Antiques at Elm Bank event on the grounds of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society headquarters in Wellesley, will be held July 26-27. Antiques from the 18th to mid-20th century will be available, including Federalist and Victorian furniture, European and Asian ceramics, china, sterling silver, art, estate jewelry, antique toys, Indian [Read More]
NEW YORK – Carlton Hobbs LLC, the noted international antiques dealer, has announced the company will offer an independent and accredited expert assessment, at no cost to its clients, of any item purchased from the firm in the last 15 years. Should any item be found to have an issue of authenticity [Read More]
OAKLAND, Calif – Jan David Winitz, founder and president of Claremont Rug Company, today announced the acquisition of the final segment of an astonishing trove of art-level 19th century Oriental rugs built by a New York family over a 50-year period. Winitz characterized his three-segment purchase from the family of a retired [Read More]
The Phoenix and Consolidated Glass Collectors’ Club would like to announce their 16th Annual Convention to be held July 24 through July 26, 2008, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. “This year, we are very privileged to have Howard Seufer as our guest speaker,” says Sarah Smith, club board member. [Read More]