Antique Marketplace News
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From Rags to Riches, not Ruin: Papermaking, Preservation, and Conservation
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy It’s no accident that when we think of ephemera, we think of printed materials. Paper, though powerful as a vessel for art and the ...
Star Wars: Movie Poster Collecting Strikes Back
Comic Character Collectibles by J.C. Vaughn With Star Wars: Episode IX –The Rise of Skywalker due in theaters December 20, 2019, it seems like as good a time as any ...
Journal of Antiques & Collectibles to Host New Year’s Day Show
The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles - a national monthly magazine for dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts of antique collectibles - will be hosting The Antique Collectibles Show in Sturbridge, MA, ...
The Hudson Highway
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy The river that flows two ways, the river of tides, the Great River of the Mountains – The Hudson has inspired countless artists and ...
Office Antiques Head Auction Team Breker's 152nd Specialty Auction, Oct. 12
The Legendary Collection of Thomas A. Russo will be going up to auction through Auction Team Breker of Koeln, Germany on Saturday, October 12, 2019. This extraordinarily important collection of ...
Donley Auctions Antique Music & Movie Auction – September 14th
Donley Auctions of Northern Illinois will be holding its popular Antique Music and Movie Auction, September 14th, with 1000 lots containing a HUGE collection of phonographs, horns, radios, speakers, tubes, ...
Measuring the Appeal of Antique Scales
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Balance-based scales appear in the historical record around 2400-1800 BC, in what is now modern-day Pakistan. Their simplicity, however, has led scholars to believe ...
A Bright Future for Neon Lights
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Considered ideal Man Cave accessories for their flashy glow and their connection to popular brands, neon lights made a splash in advertising throughout the ...
Video Game Collecting on the Rise?
Comic Character Collectibles by J.C. Vaughn It’s always interesting to watch an emerging niche in the field of pop culture collectibles and to attempt to anticipate whether something’s a fad ...
Collecting by Pieces: Antique Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Antique jigsaw puzzles have a devoted following, a group of collectors who hunt for elusive complete puzzles and even more desirable missing pieces. The ...
French Billionaire to Purchase Sotheby's Auction House
French telecoms and media mogul Patrick Drahi is acquiring Sotheby's auction house, one of the world's biggest art brokers, in a $3.7 billion deal, the British-founded company announced June 17th ...
Looking Back at the Road to Avengers: Endgame
Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Where would Hollywood be financially without the superhero films, and specifically the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Five of the top 10 all-time domestic and five ...
Babe Ruth's Jersey Sells for $5.64 million at Auction
The Babe is still breaking records! This one, however, was a home run out of the ballpark, setting the record for the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold ...
Pop Culture Potpourri: Star Wars, Action Comics Number 1, and more
Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Star Wars Toys The record-setting prices for Star Wars toys have really established a tone at Hake’s Auctions ever since they landed the Russell ...
Learning from Medical Photography Collecting
Exploring Antique Technology by Kary Pardy Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest: they are all wildly popular and all run on the use of photos. They record the likes, dislikes, family lives, ...
Neil Armstrong Collection Soars to New Heights at Auction
Objects flown to the moon and kept for 50 years in the private collection of “First Man” Mission Commander Neil Armstrong sold for more than $4.57 million during Heritage Auctions ...
A Schlüsselgerät 41 Cipher Machine Comes to Auction
The device is so rare that even the world's largest science and technology museum, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, was thrilled to receive one recently that had been excavated, heavily ...
Collecting the Tools of the Trade: Glass Molds
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Every object holds clues as to how it was made, with some being more obvious than others. Since you are reading this issue, chances ...
Limited Run And Prototype Games
Expected To Bring In Record-Breaking Sales May 16-18 Who could predict a copy of Nintendo’s Donkey Kong 3 (NES, 1986) and a rare cartridge of Nintendo World Championships (NES, 1990) – the game played ...
Military Careers Spanning Three Millennia
At Hermann Historica GmbH Spring Auction This year's large Spring Auction at Hermann Historica GmbH will take place in Munich from May 20-24, 2019. In addition to unequaled armor and ...
Certified Video Games Enter the Marketplace in Force
Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn In January 2019, Heritage Auctions began offering video games certified by third-party independent grading firm Wata Games in their Sunday night auctions, and the ...
Art Market Advisors And Lioness Art Partners
...To Form New Firm With Art-Related Resources Deborah Schmidt Robinson, Warren P. Weitman, Jr., and Mitchell Zuckerman, veteran auction executives who helped to shape today's global art and auction market, ...
As the World Turns On Its Wooden Axis
Exploring Antique Technologies By Kary Pardy You close your eyes, give the globe a hard spin, and jab your finger at it. Wherever your finger lands is your future homeland, ...
All Geared Up: Collecting Iron
Exploring Antique Technologies by Kary Pardy Iron, with its beloved black color, strength, and propensity for twists and turns can appeal to collectors across several spectrums. Whether you admire an ...
Hindman LLC Acquires Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions
Hindman LLC announces today that it has acquired auction houses Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions. The new venture brings together two of America's defining auction firms, uniting a nationwide ...
