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Columns
Behind the Gavel: Hanging out your shingle on the Web swells bidder pools with active buyers
Behind the Gavel columnist Wayne Jordan offers sound advice for going global with an antiques business, by tapping into online streaming auctions. Read More +
Special Report: 2012 in Review
Many auction houses are finding that variety is a necessity for growth and continued success. This is evident in leading auction houses’ triumphs of 2012. Read More +
Behind the Gavel: Building your own ‘Robo Picker’
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just place an order for certain antiques and have them show up at our door? Actually, it’s a reality. Meet the RSS Reader.
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Furniture Detective: What’s in a name? Furniture lexicon clouded by misnomers
In a world where a good story sometimes overshadows the facts, furniture lexicon has it’s own history of misnomers, misunderstandings and more. Read More +
Knowing Your Business: New service safeguards heirlooms’ lore
We keep baby books to record the highlights and special moments of children, we keep photo albums to preserve those events/people and times we don’t want to forget, and some keep journals to preserve the thoughts and memories we experience in our lives. Up and until now there hasn’t been anything like The Heirloom Registry to provide the same record-keeping for heirlooms; but brothers Mike and Dan Hiestand have changed all that. Read More +
Furniture Detective: Wet Worry – Dealing with water damage
Water damage. Two terrible words when paired together, especially if you own antiques. However, your antiques don’t have to become victims of standing water. Read More +
Behind the Gavel: Business Do’s and Don’ts for 2013
Despite what it may seem like, there are no tricks to sound business sense when it comes to operating an antiques shop. The good thing, according to noted antiques expert Wayne Jordan, is this: “What works today in the antiques business is what has always worked: Learn everything there is to know about your business, develop a plan, work the plan diligently and adapt as you go along.” Read More +
Ask Antique Trader: Windsor fan back chair based on 19th century design
Please tell me something about these Windsor style chairs. They were painted and used as outdoor furniture when my mother-in-law acquired them in the 1940s. She refinished them and used them inside. Read More +
Learn these three traits to help determine antique bottle values
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 +