Well, with the end of April comes the close of the April Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes, for a copy of the Guide to Fakes and Reproductions.

But with the beginning of May comes the launch of our newest sweeps: for a fan-carved bird with accompanying postcards.

If you will recall, in February we ran a story on the old-world fan-carving tradition. (You can read it HERE.)

Fancarversworld.com (http://www.fancarversworld.com) has been gracious enough to allow us to give away one of these beautiful hand-carved, fan-carved birds. Thank you Fan Carver’s World and Sally and David Nye.

The Grand Prize winner will win the bird and a set of fan-carving postcards. Four runner-ups will each win a set of postcards.

So visit http://sweepstakes.antiquetrader.com/EntryForm.aspx and enter once each day!

Good luck everyone!

(By the way, even if the graphic hasn’t changed, you’re still entering for the fan-carved bird … the Web site hasn’t caught up with the calendar yet …)

— Posted by Karen Knapstein

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