March 20th, 2010 — Antique, antiques road show, auction company, auction house, big ticket items, butterfield and butterfield, collectible antiques, ebay, family heirlooms, fortune, garage sale, msv, new option, possession, reliability, secret hope, selling antiques, shipping and handling charges, tag sale, television show from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you have ever watched a television show like Antiques Road show, where people find out that their family heirlooms or garage sale finds are really worth a fortune, then you probably have a secret hope that you may have some valuable collectible antiques in your possession as well. It has been common for people [...]
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March 14th, 2010 — 100 years, Antique, accuracy, antique tables, antiques, little bit, nails, nuances, pegs, period of time, veneer from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
You already know that an antique is something that is no less than 100 years old, but how exactly can you be certain that the particular piece you are looking at was truly crafted that long ago? Learning to identify antiques is not difficult, it just takes a little bit of know how and understanding [...]
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March 6th, 2010 — Wine Storage, Wines, extensive research, important things, long time, money, motive, pleasure, rest assured that, signs, storage requirements, substantial portions, suitable conditions, suitable place, two very different things, vintage wine, vintage wines, wine collection, wine hobby, wine passion from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Some people choose to go about collecting wine to earn money, and other people get into the art of collecting wine just because they are passionate about wine. It does not matter why you are collecting, for profit or for pleasure, the art of collecting wine is one that requires a bit of an investment [...]
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February 26th, 2010 — 100 years, Antique, Ceramics, Glassware, antique show, antique store, antiques auction, auction houses, auction website, auction websites, authenticity, chips, collectible value, legitimate websites, photograph, reputation, reputations from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
According purely to definition, antiques are described as being any object that has a collectible value and that is more than 100 years in age. There are a number of different antiques auction websites that are designed to sell these types of antique items online. Some of these websites specialize in antiques that fall into [...]
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February 22nd, 2010 — 100 years, Antique, Collectible, Pianos, aesthetic value, auction block, best possible experience, different things, faberge eggs, grandfather clocks, ivory, jewelry, originality, rare antiques, real deal, reproductions, selling antiques, vintage fashion from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you’re looking for something unique to adorn the rooms of your home, then a hobby that you may want to delve into is buying and selling antiques. There are a couple of different things that you are going to need to consider when it comes to buying and selling antiques in order to get [...]
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February 19th, 2010 — Antique, antiques and collectibles, antiques collectibles, antiques collection, antiques dealer, appraisers, colleagues, fine art, friends and family, general antiques, insurance agents, insurance companies, insurance company, insurance coverage, insurance providers, insurer, middleman, possession, referral, suggestion, worldwide coverage from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you have a collection of antiques, collectibles or fine art, then you may find yourself wondering about insurance coverage, and how antiques insurance can possibly be used to cover your needs and ensure that your cherished items are protected. In general, antiques insurance is tricky because placing a value on your antiques collection is [...]
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February 18th, 2010 — Antique, Collectible, adage, antiques and collectibles, antiquing, best possible chance, collectible baseball cards, collectible dealers, collectible piece, collecting antiques, declaration of independence, dyna, ebay, flea market, gas prices, global marketplace, interesting places, little bit, shapes, shopping on the internet, vases, world today from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you are interested in the art of antiquing, then you should know that there are antiques and collectibles that you can find in all shapes, all sizes and all kinds of locations. All of these antiques and collectibles have history, a past, a story to them. People can find some of the most unlikely [...]
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February 16th, 2010 — Antique, Antique Rings, amount of time, antique things, couples, diamond cuts, diamond ring settings, engagement ring, excellent condition, family member, flare, hand jewelry, happiness, jewelry stores, many men, marriage, relationship, reputable dealers, sentimental value, sweethearts, term commitment from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you are looking for the perfect engagement ring, you just may want to consider antique rings and the sentimental value that can be associated with them. Antique rings are capable of being purchased through reputable dealers in second hand jewelry stores. You may even be able to find antique rings in your family, passed [...]
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February 10th, 2010 — Antique, antique shops, antiques, antiquing, chat rooms, discussion forums, new avenues, shopping, zip code from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
One thing that you will know if you are interested in antiquing is that there are antique shops located all over the world. When people think of antiques and antiquing, what they think about is buying items that and then hoping someday that they will gain value. When it comes to buying things that will [...]
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February 7th, 2010 — Antique, Antique Photography, Decorative Arts, antique photographs, antiques, exception to the rule, family photographs, family photography, images, landscapes, old adage, popularity, subject matter, surfaces from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
It may be difficult for you to understand why anyone would want to give away or to sell their family photographs, but just as there are people that are willing to sell their family photography, there are also people out there who are interested in buying up these old antique photographs even though they are [...]
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February 4th, 2010 — Antique, Collectible, ancient art, ancient artifacts, antiques, antiquities on ebay, auctions, authentic piece, con artists, dumpster, ebay, impulse, much money, separate entities from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Antiquities and antiques are separate entities all together. Antiquities are ancient objects that are most commonly at least 800 years of age or older. There are a number of truly nice antiquities on eBay if you know where to look. For every authentic piece that you can find when it comes to antiquities on eBay, [...]
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February 3rd, 2010 — 0000 steel wool, Antique, Furniture, antique dealer, antique furniture repair, antique table, candelabras, cracks, crayon, horror stories, jewelers, marker, metalworking skills, minor scratch, old paint, piece of advice, repair advice, several times, surface scratches, veneer, waxy substance, woodworking from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
The first piece of advice when you are thinking of antique furniture repair is to stop. Don’t do anything until you’ve read this blog – it could save you (or gain you) thousands.
Every antique dealer has horror stories to share — there’s the woman who stripped the old paint off of an antique table before [...]
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January 30th, 2010 — Antique Goblet, Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Antiques -> Decorative Arts -> Stemware
How do you tell an antique goblet from an antique cup or mug? Goblets are stemware, with the earliest goblets made from earthenware and then expanding to other stronger materials as the years passed. The use of goblets pre-dates the Roman Empire, though the real explosion of their use [...]
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January 29th, 2010 — Vintage Antique Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Dealers -> Glass -> Plates
Collecting antique dishes can be a fun and rewarding hobby, but it’s probably not going to be an easy one! Because of the wide variety of dishes available from so many sources, you’ll probably have to brush up on your knowledge of dishes and dinnerware. You may have to do a [...]
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January 29th, 2010 — Vintage Antique Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
If you are trying to learn how to find antiques that you can buy and add to your collection or resell through other avenues such as online or through antiques auctions, the following guide should prove useful to you. Here is a brief guide on how to find antiques that fit in with your personal [...]
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January 28th, 2010 — Vintage Antique Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Antiques -> Decorative-Arts
Gothic art refers to any art, whether it’s a painting, a sculpture, or some other medium, created from about the mid-12th century through the end of the 14th century. Art was still created over the next century that’s often called International Gothic, but this type of art was more secular and generally [...]
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January 28th, 2010 — Vintage Antique Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Antiques -> Decorative Arts -> Clocks
Many people have a fondness for timepieces of all varieties, but collectible mantel clocks hold a special place in many collectors’ hearts Perhaps because mantel clocks were placed on mantels above fireplaces years ago, in the eras before electricity and digital clocks with their beeping and flashing. [...]
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January 27th, 2010 — Vintage Antique Collectible from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
When it comes to collecting different types of wine, one of the more popular options for collecting is to try out different types of rare wine. One example of a rare wine that you may want to consider is known as ice wine. Ice wine is regarded as being one of the most precious types [...]
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January 27th, 2010 — Antique, Collectible, addiction, antique collection, antique treasures, antiques, antiquing, bad mood, chemicals, collectibles, different things, flea markets, habit, having a ball, hobbies, pack rat, passion, physiological explanation, prozac, runners, tension, zoloft from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Some people falsely believe that the passion for accumulating a variety of antique treasures in an antique collection is an addiction, such as being a pack rat, but this is not actually true. The truth about going antiquing is that while it may be infectious, it is certainly not a disease and there is nothing [...]
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January 26th, 2010 — 1950s, 1960s, Antique, Antique Teddy Bears, ankles, artistic types, foot pads, glass eyes, hail, hips, hump, joints, legs, limited edition, matter of taste, noses, origins, plastic eyes, shoulders, teddies, teddy bear, thin arms from Antique Dealer @ Antiquing
Are you wondering why you might want to go into collecting antique teddy bears? It really is a matter of taste when it comes to collecting antique teddy bears. It is quite possible for you to collect these bears on a wide variety of different levels. You can collect all kinds of different antique teddy [...]
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