Ken’s Korner: British Museum pays $630,000 for rare coin – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 The British Museum has paid a little more than $630,000 for a rare, 1,200-year-old gold coin dating to Anglo-Saxon times. It…
Ken’s Korner: Six men are on trial, but where’s “Scream?” – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 On the morning of August 22, 2004, two men wearing hooded disguises burst into the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway,…
Ken’s Korner: Man trips and falls, shatters Qing vases – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 A visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, tripped on a shoelace and set off a most unfortunate chain of…
Ken’s Korner: Virginia’s new Governor got a Colonial swearing-in – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 Virginia’s Capitol building in Richmond is being renovated, so when it came time for Timothy Kaine, 47, to be sworn in…
Ken’s Korner: London Gallery will try to buy Donne portrait – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 London’s National Portrait Gallery said it will try to come up with asking price of $2.94 million to buy a…
Ken’s Korner: Ken, sporting a makeover, is trying to win back Barbie – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 Sales of Barbie dolls have been sagging lately, at least in the U.S. (down 18 percent in the…
Ken’s Korner: Sports memorabilia trove found in Massachusetts – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 John F. Hessian lived his entire life in a modest home on Granfield Avenue in Rosindale, Mass., near Boston. But when he…
Ken’s Korner: Holland to return art seized by the Nazis – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 The government of Holland has agreed to return more than 200 old-master paintings to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker, a…
Ken’s Korner: Dodo fossils found on Indian Ocean isle – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 Collectors of fossils, dinosaur bones and the like will be interested to learn a mass grave of dodo birds — the…
Ken’s Korner: Casino’s latest buy: ‘Captain Kirk’s’ kidney stone – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 GoldenPalace.com is well known for buying up the oddest of the odd in online auctions, like that half-eaten grilled cheese sandwich…
