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 Monday, March 24, 2008
New Orleans on my mind
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen Knapstein, your friendly Antique Trader Online Editor here...  New Orleans has always been one of the listings on my "Places to visit before I die" list. It first made its appearance on my list about 12 years ago, when a friend said she was planning her wedding, of which I was the matron of honor, and that she wanted to get married in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Those plans fell through, but the celebrated location remains on my "to do" list. I came across a story featured on IndyStar.com (Crescent City getaway — Get your fill of music, food and shopping in New Orleans) that expounds on what New Orleans has to offer besides Mardi Gras: antiques, fine art, antiques, jazz, antiques, food, antiques, Southern hospitality, antiques ... you see where this is going? The result: New Orleans has moved up a couple of positions on my list ... perhaps I'll make it there before I'm 50 ...
3/24/2008 12:15:49 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Go Antiquing and Improve Your Mood
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen again. I came across this article and it puts me in a pleasant state of being:
Go Antiquing and Improve Your Mood
... like I need an excuse to go antiquing! I go whenever I can, whether it's antique malls or mom & pop shops, flea markets or auctions, I love the hunt for vintage treasures. I think auctions are my favorite ... that's about as competitive as I get. My auto repair shop/dealership is right next to a wonderful antique mall, so I'm never late scheduling my oil changes or regular car maintenance. But if you need an excuse, click on the link above to read what C. Dianne Zweig, psychotherapist and author, has to say about the benefits of antiquing.
3/23/2008 9:37:49 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Antique dealers say law may make them history
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen here. It looks as though antique dealers in Reno who display in antique malls are in for trouble ... lots of trouble. You don't want to miss this story...In September, the Reno business license division sent letters notifying
antique mall owners that vendors must have privileged business
licenses. Under state law, they are subject to greater scrutiny because
they deal in secondhand goods that could be stolen, according to city
lawyers.
Antiques News
3/23/2008 9:24:34 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Question of the Week
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen here. Noah, don't hate me ... better late than never ... Here's the current Antique Trader Question of the Week:
Do you use online resources, or print resources more when researching your antiques?
It can be a confusing world out there for the uninitiated. Long gone ar the days when you could simply pick up a price guide, flip to your desired page and get an idea of the price of any given antiques.
Not only is there the great abyss of the Internet to deal with - and we all know that info gleaned from the Web is not always true - there are appraisers galore, auction houses, television shows and more than a few blogs.
Add to this the proliferation of price guides - there is a guide for just about any subset of collecting you can think of - and it's hard to be sure where your information is coming from, if it's current and, most importantly, if it's correct.
I tend to turn to an expert I know, or any of the myriad Web resources available when I need to research, but that's mostly because my job means I need to be online and on the computer more often than not. It's a matter of convenience, really. I do have to say, however, nothing is quite as
satisfying as paper, as a big, thick book, well-used and dog-eared, in which I can just turn to the right page at a flick and get what I need.
This, then, is what Trader wants to know this week: Do you use online resources, or print resources more when researching your antiques these days?
3/23/2008 9:09:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
A staggering fine art find in England - painting worth 700 times what a 20-something slacker paid for it
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Wow. Just wow.
Suitcase of money falling from the sky...
Find a painting in a shop, pay about $700 bucks for it, find out it's worth about $500,000... NOt a bad days work for an umemployed 23 year old in England.
Not a bad life's work, actually. No pic, so I don't know what it looks like. Thing is, too, the guy is going to keep it probably... How un-American...
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3/22/2008 12:46:10 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Even with so much uncertainty, Iraqi antiquities continue to amaze
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Here's one more reason to love the Internet. This came from a news feed out of Thailand and India.
It's about an ancient Babylonian town found by Iraqi archeologists.
With such a steady stream of bad news coming out of the region, it is good to know that scholarship and the unearthing of the past continue to go on. This is indeed an interesting read, especially if you're like me and you love anything that relates back to the ancient world circa B.C., where so much human societal culture dawned.
Pretty cool.
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3/22/2008 12:35:02 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Friday, March 21, 2008
I wear two hats
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Sandy Sparks here, posting on Noah's blog. While the cat's away... When I'm not wearing my Associate Editor - Antique Trader hat, I can be found wearing my other headpiece, that of Editor - Postcard Collector magazine. National Postcard Week is the first week in May. Every year readers send in a sample of the postcards they make to celebrate their special week. Some are completely hand-made, some are photographs, some are computer-generated, but all are creative and fun. Postcard Collector shows them off on the pages of the magazine and this year, on the magazine's Web site: www.postcardcollector.com.
 Want to join the fun? I can't promise to make you rich and famous, but I do promise to enjoy every postcard sent and yours might even make the cover! Put your creativity in gear and make a postcard. Send it, in an envelope, please, to: Postcard Collector
700 East State St
Iola WI 54945
attn: PC WeekIf you want to trade with other postcard makers, add a note to that effect. Who knows? You might discover one more thing to collect — postcards! Questions? Email me at sandra.sparks@fwpubs.com. I'm looking forward to seeing your creations.
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3/21/2008 4:13:12 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Awesome Japanese Buddha sells for $14M
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Wow.
This an awesome sculpture, but - perhaps, jus' a l'il bit - overpriced. $14M? That's Monopoly money, right? right? Of course, it was a t Christie's, so I'm betting the bid wasn't all about the piece itself.
I couldn't imagine spending that kind of cash on something, plus, I can't help but think that spending that kind of money on a piece of sculpture - a relic of the material world, which - according to The Buddha - doesn't even really exist, except in the constructs of our minds as determined by karma - that is completely contrary to the teachings it represents...
Hmmm... Have to mediate on that one.
Oh, and I really love the blog that I pulled this story from - Bad at sports - which is an often humorous look at the world of contemporary art...
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3/20/2008 12:45:43 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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"Something really dramatic just happened with our cornflake."
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
I posted about this the other day, the corn flake shaped like Illinois...
The AP is reporting that eBay pulled it for some violation or another. Not to worry, though, it's been taken care of and is now back online for all the people dying to have it...
I was a little worried, myself, but am now happy to report that you can get the Illinois flake, as well as one that looks like Hawaii and a couple other states...
The line, "Something really dramatic juts happened with our cornflake" is one of the best I've ever heard...
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3/20/2008 12:21:50 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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