Heritage Turns $35 Estate Find to a $382.40 Auction Consignment The estate sale description was impossible to resist: “It’s not every day you see an estate sale from a 100-year-old lady; she has an amazing collection.” The sale description got my heart pumping. I am an estate sale junkie. You get to personally inspect the […]
5 Incredible and Valuable Treasures Found in Barns and Attics
The history of fine art and collectibles is filled with stories of treasures found in attics, basements, closets, and other unlikely places. The fantasy for every collector, the media loves these types of stories and the finders can sometimes become as famous as the find. Here is a list of just a few of the […]
Five for Friday: The Art of Cocktail Shakers
A recent visit to the Dallas Museum of Art had me reeling: an entire exhibit devoted to nothing but the humble cocktail, or more precisely, the art behind the cocktail. In Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail, visitors are taken on a historical tour of nearly 60 items to explore the culture of […]
Five for Friday: Charles Guiteau – Inside the Mind of a Killer
This week’s Five for Friday looks inside the mind of a killer. An important private collection of artifacts and documents relating to the Presidential assassin Charles Guiteau have been uncovered, including a newly discovered manifesto in which he attempts to “justify” shooting President James A. Garfield. “Presidential assassins are well known, but few archives give […]
Working Model of The Statue of Liberty Discovered in Dallas
The Statue of Liberty has always been my favorite representation of American values. Her tablet, commemorating the date of our independence, and Emma Lazarus’ famous sonnet, New Colossus (affixed to The Statue’s base), which gave us the immortal phrase “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” defines the very […]
Five For Friday: Historic Wars & Creative Geniuses
This week’s Five For Friday covers the rich diversity in the May 10-11 Historical Manuscripts Auction, spanning the Civil and World Wars and the creative geniuses who shaped a nation. 1. Frank Lloyd Wright Archive Documenting Construction of the James Bryan Christie House The archive offered here offers rare insight into the process of working […]
How to Clean and Polish Antique Silver Without Reducing Value
A quick internet search will give two or three fast ways to clean and polish silver. Unfortunately, all of them could be removing value along with the tarnish, which is why the most commonly touted ways to clean and polish sterling silver are not used by silver experts. Buy, Value or Appraise Your Designer Furniture […]
Marvel-Inspired Netflix Shows Generate Surge in Comic Collecting
Daredevil. Punisher. Iron Fist. The Defenders. For every Netflix show that debuts from Marvel Studios, comics fans can trace the characters back to the books they love. From the famous to the obscure, here is a look at the several books picked up by collectors in last Sunday’s Internet Comics Auction that draw a straight […]
