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Train Collection Auctions – Thousands of Items – Gigantic Railroad Auction Oct. 28, Nov. 4 at Family Estate Auctions in Lakewood

Train Collection Auctions – Thousands of Items – Gigantic Railroad Auction Oct. 28, Nov. 4 at Family Estate Auctions in Lakewood

   Family Estate Auctions is hosting a GIGANTIC Railroad Auction on October 28 and November 4 featuring a gigantic railroad estate assembled from a single collector. The estate has thousands of unique and original items including:    Lanterns, Lamps, Signs, Badges, Tin Ware, Signals, Switches, Oil cans, Tools, Containers, Books, Magazines, Epherma, Ledgers, Original Documents, Railroad China, Locks and Keys, Rail […]

by · October 6, 2017 · 0 comments · Feature Article
Antique Detective: Antique Portrait Busts Have Long History

Antique Detective: Antique Portrait Busts Have Long History

By Anne Gilbert      There has always been a fascination for portrait busts, that continues. When they come up for auction prices are varied, depending on many factors. Age and subject are the most important. The sculpted heads of Egyptian and Roman rulers have never gone out of fashion. After all who wouldn’t like to display a sculpture supposedly dating […]

by · October 6, 2017 · 0 comments · Antique Detective, Feature Article
Antique Detective: Old Car Mascots Can Be Costly

Antique Detective: Old Car Mascots Can Be Costly

By Anne Gilbert      Once upon a time an ultimate status symbol was a hood mascot for wealthy auto owners. A mascot wasn’t a pet dog. These days old car hood ornaments are an expensive collectible, and the pet name is Rene’ Lalique.    Probably the first hood ornament didn’t adorn a car, but a chariot. Credit Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen with […]

by · October 6, 2017 · 0 comments · Antique Detective, Feature Article
What Is It? October 2017

What Is It? October 2017

We had no correct answers for our October’s What Is It. We were thinking with Thanksgiving around the corner certainly some pie baking individual might know the answer. In the photo you see tools for pie making which include chains and a pie weight.  

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Howard Pierce — Treasured Pottery for All

Howard Pierce — Treasured Pottery for All

By Tom Cotter      Howard Pierce is one of the happy stories of the 1930’s and on in the pottery community. With limited formal schooling and a self-financed trip around the world, Pierce moved from Chicago to California to live with an aunt in 1934. Devoted to human and non-human anatomy and physiology, Pierce developed exceptional sketching abilities to create […]

by · September 6, 2017 · 0 comments · Feature Article
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