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Industry mourns passing of Earlean S. Bowen, ‘The Antiques Lady,’ 95
In 1975, with $10,000 and a dream to get into the business, Earlean Bowen launched Bowen’s Antiques, initially as a home-based venture. In the 38 years since, the late Bowen (known as the Antiques Lady) had a significant impact on the antiques community. 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 +
Weekly Antiques Auction & Show Ads: Jan. 18, 2013 – March 15, 2013
Check out the latest antiques auctions, shows and events from across the United States, for the period of Jan. 18 through March 15, 2013. Read More +
Antiques appraisal event to benefit Virginia library
An appraisal event slated for Feb. 12 will benefit Massanutten Regional Library, and showcase appraisers from event host Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, and secondary appraisers James McHone Jewelry. Read More +
Progressive analysis to aid auction house in bidder profile assessment
LiveAuctioneers.com has added bidder analytics to its existing approval process. The new data suite creates the most reliable bidder profile. 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 +
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 +
Crazy Collections: These collectors only want zany and obscure antiques
Sometimes collectors yearn for the unusual. They search for items that appeal to their sense of whimsy, or perhaps items that reflect cultural and historical values that may not have been thought of as collectible. Here you’ll meet collectors of the weird: funerary items, dental or medical items, prisoner art, condom tins, neckties, corkscrews, Salem witch-related items. Collectors of the esoteric are many and they open up an entire new world to us when we look at those items through their eyes. Read More +
Antiques inheritances affected by 2013 gift tax changes
With the lifetime gift tax exemption scheduled to drop from $5 million to $1 million on Jan. 1, 2013, collectors are scuffling to pass on as much tax-free wealth as possible to their children and heirs. But be careful. When it comes to gifting collections, both collectors and appraisers need to move cautiously. Read More +