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10 Things You Didn’t Know About: Advertising Cookie Jars
Cookie jars have been used to peddle everything from pancakes and green beans to soft drinks and dog treats, among other things, and are popular collectibles. Read More +
Anticipation high for large turn out at UNI-Dome Antique & Collectibles Show
Iowa’s largest indoor antiques and collectibles show, the UNI-Dome Antique & Collectibles Show, will get underway March 22 and feature wares from 150 dealers. Read More +
Weekly Antiques Auction & Show Ads: Dec. 15, 2012-Feb. 27, 2013
In this space you’ll see fresh updates to the latest antiques auctions, shows and events in Antique Trader. Weekly Auction & Show Ads: Dec. 15, 2012-Feb. 27, 2013. Read More +
Business booming for the Warhol brand
For Andy Warhol, art and business were separated only by a hyphen. In his 1975 book, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again,” the artist speculated that art was a business, and that business was art. He later added, “Good business was the best art.” Read More +
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know: Coin-Op Antiques
Did you know artifacts show coin-operated machines existed as far back as the 1st century A.D.? Here’s everything you want to know about coin-op antiques. Read More +
More than 2,000 dealers turn out for Madison Bouckville Antiques Week 2012
The little hamlet of Bouckville had its front yards, hay fields and pastures covered with tents filled with antiques for many thousands of shoppers Aug. 11-19. Ranging in size from one exhibiting dealer in front of a single house in the center of the village to the biggest field known as the Madison Bouckville Antiques Festival with about 500 exhibitors, there were antiques of all varieties for the shoppers to peruse and purchase. Read More +
Toledo Buick pedal car may bring $15,000 at Showtime’s Fall sale
A vast accumulation of fire fighting memorabilia and a lifetime pedal car and toy collection will be sold Oct. 5-7. A rare Toledo Buick pressed steel toy car in excellent, all-original condition, is expected to sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. Read More +
Breweriana collection of 500 rare beer cans, 400 beer taps, offered Sept. 21-22, 2012
Adolf Grenke’s 4,000-piece breweriana and beer can collection will be sold Sept. 21-22, 2012. It includes 400 beer taps and 500 antique and vintage beer cans. Grenke spent 40 years amassing the quality collection and a few key examples are expected to sell for more than $50,000 each, said Dan Morphy, of Morphy Auctions. Read More +
Weather doesn’t keep Kutztown shoppers From Renninger’s Pennsylvania Extravaganza
Collectors hit the Renninger’s Extravaganza in Kutztown, Pa., for unusual finds, with smalls and advertising finding a willing crowd. “We had really good traffic in spite of less-than-perfect weather,” said Jim Renninger, describing his Spring show. “The dealers said they were selling well and we had nearly full capacity with the pavilions and buildings sold out of space.” Read More +