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Show promoter association bids visitors Welcome to Brimfield

March 22, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply
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Organizers of America’s best-loved destination for antiquing are gearing up for the start of the Brimfield antiques show season. See what’s on tap for 2013. Read More +

Reader’s Letters: Passion for comic books fostered over a lifetime

March 19, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply

Readers’ share a passion for comic books and the former CBG magazine, and seek answers to comic book-related inquiries. Read More +

Ushering ‘Warman’s’ into the modern era

March 12, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply
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Get the “inside scoop” on the new just published Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles 2014 directly from Noah Fleisher, editor of this top-selling antiques guide. Read More +

Weekly Auction & Show Ads: March 16 – May 26, 2013

March 10, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply

AntiqueTrader.com features select half- and full-page ads from the print magazine, extending our promise to help our customers find new customers, and keep you in the loop about happenings in the antiques world. In this space you’ll see fresh updates … Read More +

Ask the Experts: Even a distinct vase loses value because of a crack

March 7, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | 1 Reply
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In an Ask the Experts appraisal, A.I.A “Certified Appraiser” Dr. G. Marchelos points out distinct history of a vase, and something that cuts into its value. Read More +

Japanned ware book fills collecting resource void

March 5, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply
Yvonne Jones, Japanned papier mache and tinware: 1740–1940, Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge UK,2012; pp335 plus many illustrations in color and line, Hardback £45  $89.ISBN 978 1 85149 686 0

Japanned ware has always been admired and collected and yet few seem to know exactly what it is or how japanning developed as a process. Read More +

iGavel founder, ‘Antiques Roadshow’ appraiser Lark Mason makes 2013 collecting trend predictions

January 11, 2013 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply

Thanks to Lark Mason’s position as an expert, appraiser, author and television personality on the PBS series “The Antiques Roadshow,” the founder of iGavel Auctions anticipates the following collecting trends. Read More +

Learn these three traits to help determine antique bottle values

December 27, 2012 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply
Wormser quart bottle, scarce teal blue, rather than yellow amber. The much scarcer teal blue bottle earned $6,000. Photo courtesy Glass Works Auctions.

While everyone wants to know some history and information about their bottles, all of the messages usually end with the same question: “What’s my bottle worth?” Read More +

Antique Trader 2012 Article Index

December 16, 2012 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply

It’s been a full year of antiques and collectibles news, stories, how-to advice, reader comments and more. Access the articles you’d like to read again. Read More +

Rago’s hosting open house, talk on New Jersey jewelry makers

December 3, 2012 | Antique Trader Staff | Leave a reply
Tiffany & Co. Bicolor Gold Ruby Brooch, $2,000-3,000

By the eve of the great Depression, in 1929, Newark, NJ, produced ninety percent of the gold jewelry in the United States. Museum curator U.G. Diets discusses in his talk “The Lower End of Splendor: Middle Class Jewelry in Context.” Read More +

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