The Best of Ed Welch – Doing Business on Purpose The Business of Doing Business in Antiques By Ed Welch One of the benefits of teaching is that your students teach you. When I began teaching “The Business of Doing…
The Buy, the Sell, the Public So Much to Learn, So Much to Teach By Edward Lewand So as a dealer you go out to a call on an estate to purchase jewelry, china, etc. The family is there, the…
Mementos of Mourning – The Quintessential Folk Art By Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell “The Halloween Queen®” Remember me. Memory is so sweet and to cling to a fragment of someone dear and integrating a part of them with other family members…
The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles February 2014 issue features “Mementos of Mourning” by Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell, “100th Anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s Screen Debut” by Eric Bradley, and “Hake’s Continues to Score Comic Art, Ant-Man Sells Big” by J.C. Vaughn.…
Ken’s Korner: Harry Potter and the narwhal tusk News & Views From the World of Antiques & Collectibles By Ken Hall A 130-year-old narwhal tusk engraved with the name of a character from the Harry Potter books has been sold…
Pepsin Gum tin dispenser, $57,000, Showtime Auction Gavels ‘n’ Paddles Recent Auction Results From Near & Far By Ken Hall A rare antique Pepsin Gum embossed tin dispenser, coin-operated to accept one cent for both gum and fortune, sold for…
Ken’s Korner: Nazi-looted artwork totals about $1.3 billion News & Views From the World of Antiques & Collectibles By Ken Hall By now you may have heard about the raid German authorities made on a Munich apartment that uncovered more…
1792 Washington bond, $265,500, Archives Int’l Gavels ‘n’ Paddles Recent Auction Results From Near & Far By Ken Hall A historic U.S. federal bond, issued to and signed by then-President George Washington in 1792, the first year such bonds were…
Profile of Silent Film Collector Ben Model By Phil Hall There are few people who enjoy a greater degree of expertise on silent films than Ben Model. The New York City-based Model is a noted silent film archivist and historian,…
Collecting Apollo Moonwalkers by Bill Thornbrook Forty-five years after the first Moon landing, astronaut items still fly high. Between December 1968 and December 1972, Americans voyaged to the Moon nine times. In all, twenty-four astronauts made the trip, three of…
