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August 23, 2018 / Basket Weaving, Baskets, coiled basket, Columns, handcrafted, Jan Duggan, Miniature Basket, Native American, Pima, Pima-crafted baskets, souvenirs, Tiny Basket, tourism, Utilitarian, weaving

Great Collections: August 2018

Baskets in Miniature: An Interview with Collector Jan Duggan Although Native American tribes throughout North America were hand-crafters of baskets ...

August 22, 2018 / Belt buckle, Coin, Concho Belt, Features, Hopi, Jim Olsen, melted coins, Native American, Navajo, shells, silver dollar, Silversmith, soldering, Western Trading Post, Zuni

Concho Belts: A Native Tradition

By Jim Olson, Western Trading Post. Photos Courtesy of Western Trading Post The word concho, sometimes spelled concha, comes from ...

August 21, 2018 / Antique Marketplace News, Baseball, baseball jersey, Cracker Jack Christy Mathewson, Emmitt Smith, Florida Gators, HA.com, Heritage Auctions, Heritage Sports Platinum Night Auction, Jersey, medals, Memorabilia, Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, Sports, Topps, Ty Cobb

Record-shattering Mickey Mantle Jersey Stuns Hobby

Record-shattering Mickey Mantle Jersey Stuns Hobby in $8.6 Million Heritage Sports Platinum Night Auction DALLAS, Texas (August 20, 2018) – ...

August 17, 2018 / Antique Marketplace News, Columns, comics, Pop Culture Collecting, RetroCollect

Captain America Comics #70: Going Home Again

Comic Character Collectibles By J.C. Vaughn Collector Jason Versaggi knows both the cold, analytical, logical purchases for his collection on ...

August 16, 2018 / Antique Marketplace News, Blown glass, bottle glass, Bottles, colored glass, colors, Columns, Expert Exchange, Glass, Kary Pardy, molded, patterned, patterned glass, Pressed glass, rainbow, sand, silica

Colorful Chemistry

Exploring Antique Technologies By Kary Pardy Glass is blown, pressed, molded, and patterned, but sometimes the most stunning features come ...

August 15, 2018 / Art, book, Carolyn Keene, Columns, Cover art, Gavels n Paddles, gouache, illustration, illustration art auction, Ink, Ken Hall, Nancy Drew, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Novel, Russell H. Tandy, stories, Swann Auction Galleries, Watercolor

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Nancy Drew cover illustration, $35,000, Swann Auction Galleries

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall The watercolor, ink and gouache cover art for the ...

August 14, 2018 / Ancient Egypt, China, copper, Features, Jewelry, Judy Gonyeau, Mineral, Native American, ritual objects, scarabs, silver, Southwest, Southwestern Jewelry, Stone, Tibet, turkey, turquoise

Turquoise: The Jewel of the Southwest

By Judy Gonyeau The very nature and character of turquoise has turned the heads of admirers from Ancient Egypt to ...

August 11, 2018 / American art, Art, Art Collection, Art Museum, Collecting Art, Colonial Williamsburg, exhibit, Features, Navajo, Navajo Weavings, Pat Lucke, Rex Lucke, Southwest, Southwestern American Art

Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade

A Unique Exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg Collecting and Living with Treasured Southwestern American Art For generations, anonymous Navajo women working ...