Collecting
Stamp Collecting
Can stamp collecting deliver profits?
Telegraph.co.ukTelegraph.co.uk - Jan 21, 2012
With uncertainty hanging over the stock market and with the Olympics, for which the Royal Mail has released a special set of collectable stamps, drawing near, the stamp-collecting market is a hive of activity. This week a profits prediction from ...
Barbie Dolls
Barbie dolls that have stirred up controversy
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Jan 25, 2012
The controversy around the Bald Barbie continues. Story goes two women who bonded over hair loss launched a social media campaign in December urging Mattel to make a bald Barbie to acknowledge the young girls who suffer from diseases that can lead them ...
Book Collecting
Collecting the Physical Book in the Digital Age
ILAB - Jan 25, 2012
When I started my own business thirty-five years ago, in 1976, with a general shop, I acquired some miscellaneous volumes of The Colophon, the book collecting journal of the 1930s. Based on what I knew the whole set sold for, I priced these volumes at ...
Autograph Collecting
Coin Collecting
Special Edition State Quarter Coin Sets Now Available for a Limited Time at ...
PR Urgent (press release) - Jan 24, 2012
Coin collecting hobbyists, who may have sought out the limited-edition state quarters when they were first released, now have the option of purchasing special edition sets of the quarters, ranging from 24-karat gold-plated quarters to colorized coins.
Rock Collecting
Loves Park woman talks rock collecting hobby
Beloit Daily News - Dec 29, 2011
She took up rock collecting a couple of years ago, and is scouring eBay for rocks and planning rock hunting trips. She is hoping to get some new members involved in the club which meets the first Saturday of each month at 10 am at North Suburban ...
Seashells
Home Style: Decorating with urns
The Seattle Times - Jan 25, 2012
In summer, pile it with seashells. And in the fall, it would look lovely filled with colorful gourds. A mistake I see people frequently make when they design displays for coffee tables is to use lots of small and low-profile pieces.
Disneyana
Auctions: Disneyana, vintage photo gear highlight Philadelphia-area auctions ...
Philadelphia InquirerPhiladelphia Inquirer - Jan 20, 2012
The Fantasia figurines are among the 120 lots of Disneyana featured in William H. Bunch Auctions & Appraisals' sale of modern collectibles - including Lladro, Hummel, dolls, and dollhouse furniture - beginning at noon Thursday at the gallery at One ...
Matchbox Toys
The art of Mandula
The Upcoming - Jan 14, 2012
She finds a use for matchbox toys, bicycle inner-tubes and 1940s military wool blankets in tailored jackets and neck pieces. Pockets are detachable whilst shirts have been transformed into skirts. Fabrics have been reclaimed, and dyed using coffee, ...
Collecting Art
Fine Art of Collecting illuminated at 2012 Fine Art Show
Examiner.com - Jan 25, 2012
There are as many approaches to collecting art as there are collections. Four highly experienced collectors shared their own thoughts on the subject at the 2012 Fine Art Show this weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center. They described serious art ...
Collecting Antique
Private York County museum makes question on 'Jeopardy!'
York Daily Record - Jan 5, 2012
Arbittier, chairman of the York Hospital Department of Anesthesiology and medical director of Perioperative Services, has been collecting antique surgical saws and bloodletting devices for the past 25 years. His private museum was the subject of ...
Collecting Photography
Philippe Garner Collecting photography
La Lettre de la PhotographieLa Lettre de la Photographie - Jan 12, 2012
Philippe Garner, International Director of Photography at Christie's, “Collecting Photography, a passion” provides a reflection about photography's inevitable entry into the art market. "Fascinated by photographs since the early 1960s, when I started ...
Bullion
Can I Forecast Collector Happiness?
EQuicknewsNumisMaster.com - Jan 20, 2012
These new silver Eagle issues would be made possible by the Mint's ability to meet any and all Eagle bullion coin demand. I think demand will stabilize. 3. Therefore, sales of the silver bullion Eagles in 2012 will not rise above the 39868500 coins ...
Canadian Coin
Canadian Coin Association show starts today
Brantford Expositor - Jan 10, 2012
By EXPOSITOR STAFF The folks behind the Great Canadian Roadshow are back in town this week with the Canadian Coin Association show. Residents are invited to take old gold and silver coins to the event, which is setting up show at the Hampton Inn on Fen ...
Us Coins
Collecting Error Coins
NumisMaster.comNumisMaster.com - Jan 18, 2012
Excerpted from US Coins and Currency, 2nd Edition by Allen G. Berman, available from http://www.ShopNumisMaster.com. An error coin is a coin manufactured incorrectly or one that is manufactured correctly on damaged or incorrectly made dies. ...
Antique Silver
Deputy of the Year Recovered Antique Silver Worth $30K
Patch.com - Jan 24, 2012
By Jennifer Squires Deputy Roger Galvin will be presented the Deputy of the Year Award. Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office Using a map drawn by a jail inmate and suspected thief, deputy sheriff Roger Galvin drove up and down Highway 1 in San Mateo County ...
Antique Gold
$2000 made for Salvation Army gold coin
WLFI.com - Jan 9, 2012
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - A valuable antique gold coin is helping raise over 2000 dollars for the Salvation Army of Lafayette. The coin was dropped into a red kettle during the organizations annual fundraiser. Valued at over 1600 dollars, the Salvation ...
Antique Bronze
The wild side of couture with Iris Van Herpen
AFPAFP - Jan 24, 2012
Showing her second collection as guest member of the exclusive haute couture club, the 27-year-old adorned dresses with organic curves and curled tentacles, created from plexiglas, antique bronze, latex or lampshade fabric.
Antique Glass
Antique Stained Glass to be restored at historic chapel on base
U-T San Diego - Jan 22, 2012
As in the 2007 restoration, Canfield plans to use handblown antique glass from Europe and will kiln-fire the paint onto the glass with a technique similar to that used on the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, at the same time following the US Secretary of ...
Antique Furniture
Are furniture prices levelling out after years of decline?
antiquestradegazette.com - Jan 23, 2012
While, for reasons of fashion and function, the English antique furniture market remains in a parlous state, the decline was no more severe than those seen on the stock exchange or the housing market. Established in 1968, the AFI is based on a blend of ...
Antique Carpets
Claremont Rug Company To Provide Rare Glimpse at Art Level 19th Century ...
MarketWatch (press release) - Jan 12, 2012
The Claremont inventory is comprised of more than 4000 antique carpets from the Second Golden Age, with nearly 1000 displayed on the website. The rugs in Claremont's holdings are valued in the $15000 to more than $500000 per piece range.
Antique Books
Vietnamese New Year, Antique Books and a Magician This Weekend
Patch.com - Jan 26, 2012
So, what do you have planned this weekend? Looking for some ideas? Well then, take a look at what's on the San Rafael Patch Events Calendar. --Friends of the San Rafael Public Library will hold a sale of antique, quaint and collectible books from 10 am ...