Ask Antique Trader: Avoid confusing ‘souvenir’ glass with Carnival glass
Anne Gilbert, the Antique Detective, answers Antique Trader reader questions about their valuable - and not-so-valuable - collectibles.
First selections from prominent Virginia antique collections to be sold in New Year’s Day auction
IVOR, Va. – A pair of prominent and important local estates will headline the 26th annual New Year’s Day sale planned by Tom’s Auctions & Appraisals of Suffolk, Va.
The Cedar Rapids Antique Show & Collectors Fair returns to Hawkeye Downs
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Fall Cedar Rapids Antique Show and Collectors Fair will return to the Hawkeye Downs Main Exhibition Building (just off I-380, Exit #17) located at 4400 6th St SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Arts & Crafts, fine art, Ohio estate pieces in Antiques Auction Gallery’s Oct. 9 debut
Maxwell Street Days caters to bargain hunters
A Cedarburg (Wis.) Volunteer Fire Department tradition for more than 40 years, Maxwell Street Days is a large outdoor sale with more than 800 spaces filled with antiques, collectibles, crafters, produce and rummage plus food, beverages and music.
Pa. dealers launch street fair to promote antiques
Don’t miss this on Saturday. Antiques dealers and enthusiasts in Quakertown, Pa., are banding together Saturday, July 18, to launch a street festival around collecting and enjoying antiques and collectibles. “Rock the Corners” features food, line dancing and “bargains galore” for collectors and casual buyers. The day long event is scheduled...
I’ll make that bid!
As many of you know (at least those of you who follow Antique Trader on Twitter and Facebook), editor Eric Bradley and I showed up at the same auction last Saturday. It was a multiple-estate and consignment auction held in Weyauwega, Wis., at the Liebe auction facility. There were crocks galore...
Fusco Eclectic Collector Auction offers widely varied selections June 26
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – On June 26, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. EST, Fusco Auctions will host its Eclectic Collector Auction #3 at 38016 Euclid Ave., Willoughby, Ohio, and online at Artfact Live! (www.artfact.com).
Pa. dealers launch street fair to promote antiques
QUAKERTOWN, Pa., – Antiques dealers and enthusiasts are banding together July 18 to launch a street festival around collecting and enjoying antiques and collectibles.