Antique Collecting Guide

Antique Collecting

Collecting anything, antique or modern, is limited by two factors: the money available and the space to be filled. Having determined these basic essentials, it is then a personal matter. The taste of the collector may lead to watches or clocks, china teapots, or innumerable other things. The lucky acquisition of an admired piece may lead to a determination to get more of the same, or at least to find out what the admiration is all about.

This website is intended as a guide for the beginner, to help him through the bewildering maze of antique objects with which he is likely to come in contact. Also, it has much information to aid the more advanced antique collector. It sets out to help in identifying the age of a piece; to give clues that may reveal the actual maker, or at least his nationality; to indicate comparative rarity; and to suggest what is worth having and what to leave for others

IIt is impossible to do more than outline some of the many antiques that may be met with ordinarily, and doubtless there are gaps. To try to fill them, some of the webpages list a few selected books that will be helpful.

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5 age-old tips for investing in antiques - Money Matters - MSNBC.com
Five age-old tips for investing in antiques Jean Chatzky on how to hunt, sell and invest in the business of collecting
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Every passion has its Holy Grail, and rare-book collecting is no exception. ... Gloss, a well-known appraiser who has appeared on PBS? ? Antiques Roadshow,? bases ...
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... our request, the Kansas-based agency Great Getaways created a $100,000 vacation tailored to the interests of a CEO who leads a billion-dollar company and enjoys collecting antiques
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... 12, offering half-day and all-day children's activities that range from seashell collecting ... cozy European-style hotel whose wood-floored dark-paneled rooms are adorned in antiques ...
Submerged in stuff, hoarders keep collecting - Health - TODAYshow.com
For actress Delta Burke, it was antique furniture and porcelain dolls ? enough to fill ... What connects a doll-collecting beauty queen, a magazine-reading recluse and 3 million to 6 ...
New Orleans museum exalts the art of the cocktail - US and Canada ...
Back in 2005, Curator Ted Haigh shows part of the antique liquor collection at The ... of hundreds of cocktail artifacts that Haigh has amassed over several decades of collecting
WP: Trove of black history gathers dust - Washington Post- msnbc.com
For a moment, before the eye begins to settle on the antique book spines in the gloomy ... Her collecting style was more bargain basement than Sotheby's auction. She'd prowl used ...
Startup aims to aid in stolen gadget recovery - Gadgets- msnbc.com
... stolen property, including an electric guitar from a Japanese punk band and an antique ... After collecting unclaimed property from police, PropertyRoom.com workers scan in each item ...
Guns and Va. Tech: Year later, no solutions - Virginia Tech: One Year ...
Terry Kirkpatrick leans back in his chair and watches customers pore over his antique firearms. The 65-year-old Vietnam veteran has been collecting guns since he was 12, when he ...

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