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 Friday, March 28, 2008
Heritage will auction items from the Stanley Kramer Estate
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen here ... due to the timliness of this announcement, I didn't want to wait until next week's Auction Extra ... Director/Producer of Judgment at Nuremberg, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon, and More
DALLAS, Texas — In their upcoming Music and Entertainment Signature auction, to be held April 5, 2008 in Dallas, Texas, Heritage Auction Galleries will offer personal memorabilia, awards, documents, and more from the estate of movie icon Stanley Kramer, Hollywood's first independent director and producer whose socially charged filmmaking moved generations. As Al Gore noted, Kramer "brought powerful social issues to the screen that touched our sense of moral responsibility ," winning an NAACP Vanguard Award and an Irving G. Thalberg in the process. His cinematic credits read like an Academy Award chronology; from the masterpiece Judgment at Nuremberg, to his provocative cultural examination Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, to the hilarious It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, cinema would never be the same after Stanley Kramer. "This fascinating collection includes Kramer's Thalberg and NAACP awards, signed and annotated scripts, and personal gifts from Spencer Tracy and John Wayne," said Doug Norwine, Director of Music and Entertainment Auctions for Heritage. "It has been a great honor to work with Kramer's wife, Karen Sharpe Kramer, in bringing these extraordinary items to collectors," said Norwine, "and to pay homage to a man who sought so consistently to inspire, explore, and challenge. Stanley Kramer was a truly courageous filmmaker, and this material will certainly prove highly desirable to his many fans worldwide." More information about this auction, along with enlargeable, full-color images of each lot and complete catalog descriptions, can be found at www.HA.com where bids can also be placed online.
Auction
Friday, March 28, 2008 1:35:59 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Postcard collecting is alive and well!
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
From Sandy … not Noah or Karen! Postcard collecting is alive and well That was the feeling I got when I attended the 30th annual Michiana Regional Postcard Show on March 15 in South Bend, Ind. The doors opened at 9 a.m., and by the time I got there about 10:15, the aisles were already crowded with shoppers. It sometimes took quite a while before a dealer could break away from customers to chat with me. To find out more about the show, postcard collecting and Postcard Collector magazine visit www.postcardcollector.com
Antique Show | Ephemera
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:21:27 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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The art of Edna Hibel
Posted by Antique Trader Staff
Karen Knapstein here again ... I fear I'm becoming a nuisance on this thing :) This press release just landed in my inbox a bit ago. I recall seing such announcements in the past, but never paid much attention to them. Returning from New York City only a week after being designated a National Women's History Month 2008 Honoree, Edna Hibel will greet her many followers and other members of the public at the Edna Hibel Fine Art Fair. The free two-day art fair will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, at the Hibel Museum of Art, across the street from Roger Dean Stadium, in Jupiter, Florida.
In addition to greeting Edna Hibel and viewing her renowned art, the public will be able to see educational exhibitions featuring the complex art of stone lithography, and the complicated work of putting together an art book.
Edna Hibel, 91, has been painting for over 80 years. She is the only American woman to win the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Her paintings, lithographs, serigraphs, and sculptures have been exhibited in more than 20 countries spanning four continents in prestigious institutions, including six national museums.
Admission to the Edna Hibel Fine Art Fair is free, as is valet parking. Directions and other information may be obtained by contacting the Hibel Museum of Art at (561) 622-5560.
 Today, I investigated the official Edna Hibel Web site and find I'm taken by the warmth and spirit of her art. I'm impressed.
fine art
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:44:51 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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 ...
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:15:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:37:49 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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
Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:24:34 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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?
Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:09:29 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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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Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:46:10 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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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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Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:35:02 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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