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The 2st annual Cranford Antique Show & Sale is under way this coming May 19th, 2012 at the Cranford United Methodist Church Parking lot located at 201 Lincoln Ave E, Cranford. Dealers are selling their fine antiques featuring period furniture and accessories, fine art, porcelain, fine period ceramic...
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My special guest in Tuesday's chat will be Josh McGinnity, who is an employee at the Brass Armadillo Antique Mall in Denver, and who in his spare time is a collector of prison art & ephemera. For those of you who hung in there with us for the 4+ hours of our latest appraisal day you'll remember Josh...
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The Brass Armadillo Antique Mall in Denver holds a 1-day only sale each year in which items priced at $100 or more are discounted 20%. The sale this year is this coming Saturday, so instead of my monthly show featuring bargains under $100, I'm going to devote Tuesday's chat to identifying bargains t...
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Ski & I will host our monthly Classified Ads Show (also to include items listed in the Auctions) this Saturday at the usual time, 10AM PST, 11AM MST, Noon CST, 1PM EST. I've selected a number of recently placed classifieds and auctions, and we'll discuss the attributes of these pieces. If you have a...
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Hello everyone! I was so excited to get started on this next post, I enjoy writing and being creative with words so this is very fun for me, so lets get started!!
This week we are highlighting Wedgwood CC Jasperware Jasper Jewellery.
We currently only have 2 pi...
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Just to let you know a bit about me and what I do. My partner and I run a china, crystal and flatware replacements company on ebay. We are currently offering over 3000 items. But forget all that for now, what I have decided to do is pick a pattern from our large collection and highlight it here! Tod...
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The quality of the wood carving on antique furniture is often the primary determinant of value, and it certainly is always a major component of the beauty of antique wood. In Tuesday's show we'll examine several highly carved pieces and discuss how well the carving was done, what woodworking techniq...
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We specialize in the discontinued and hard to find patterns. Our inventory includes fine & casual china, porcelain, pottery, earthenware, stoneware, crystal, stainless, silver plate, sterling and collectibles. We carry all of the major manufacturers and many more. If your pattern is no longer being ...
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You walk into an antique store and spot a painting that looks interesting. It's under glass. The tag says it's a watercolor by a famous artist. What a find! But is it? Maybe it's not a watercolor. Maybe it's a hand colored lithograph or an aquatint or an etching or an engraving. Perhaps it's a hand ...
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On Tuesday's show I have the pleasure of welcoming Mary & Raymond Koernig as guests. They are historians and the owners of RMK Tours, which provides guided tours to, among other venues, the Fred Harvey establishments in the Southwest. Fred Harvey was the quintessential American entrepreneur who succ...
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I haven't even browsed E-bay in a long while. Probably because I am at the University of Wyoming holding an internship and classes. But I have been thinking about what I still need in my collection. And something that jumped to the front of the pack is Krang. He's worth a fortune but one of these da...
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In Tuesday evening's chat I'll be discussing Victorian Trade Cards, a really interesting category of ephemera, that has withstood the onslaught of ebay particularly well. I just bought an entire collection of great cards, and we'll have a look at a lot of them. We'll discuss what images are most col...
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Tomorrow morning Ski & I will host our monthly chat on items currently listed for sale in the Classifieds. We'll discuss the items, the way they are presented, and try to determine if the prices being asked are fair. Hint--I chose 12 items that I think there's something special about. ...
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I'll be doing our monthly show on finding bargains at under $100 this evening. I spend the day searching the Brass Armadillo Antique Mall in Denver for what I think are great buys, but I'm only allowing myself a budget of $100. I normally find 10 or 12 items that I believe are great buys under $100....
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Happy New Year & Welcome to 2012! The Denver Brass Armadillo Antique Mall has many exciting things instore for the new year w/in the Mall and on iAntique.
We will be continueing our Classifieds show every 2nd Saturday of each month. Our next show will be Saturday, January 1...
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Now that we've got auction functionality and our content is getting into the search engines in a matter of a few days, I think that we offer a very viable alternative to ebay auctions, Buy It Now, and classifieds. At this point their are pluses and minuses to both iantique and ebay auctions, and in ...
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2011.........ANOTHER GREAT CHRISTMAS AT THE DENVER BRASS ARMADILLO.
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In this evening's chat I'll be discussing stained glass windows, painted glass windows, and stained glass windows that have been painted. Stained & painted glass has a long history, and, of course, is a major collecting category, and we'll briefly discuss that history before considering the qualitie...
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In Tuesday's chat I'll be discussing buying & selling gold in various forms. We'll look at numismatic & melt-down values of some gold coins, several pieces of various karat gold jewelry and try to separate out gold value from precious stone value, gold investments on the stock exchange, etc. We'll c...
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In Tuesday's show I'll discuss some items I've found for sale in the Brass Armadillo Antique Mall that I think represent real bargains, and as usual, I'm limiting myself to spending only $100 max. So tomorrow I'll spend the afternoon searching, then at 5PM PST, 6PM MST, 7PM CST, 8PM EST I'll show yo...
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We are having an Appraisal Day this Saturday at the Brass Armadillo Antique Mall in Denver. At 11AM MST Ski & I will host our monthly Classified Ads chat, in which we & viewers select items from the Classifieds & Auctions to highlight & discuss. Then between noon & 2PM Ski & I will appraise 2 items ...
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In the Classifieds chat on Saturday morning Ski & I will be discussing a number of recently posted items in the Classifieds, including the Auctions. If anyone has an interest in any specific item, please let me know, and we'll include it in the discussions. This would include anything you might own ...
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NOW OPEN! Finders Keepers Antique Mall & Coffee Shoppe! After being closed for six months due to the flood we are happy to announce we are up and running again.
We are celebrating by offering rent specials for new dealers! Booths are discounted 10% off the regula...
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Why is it important to be involved in iAntique.com?
The industry has weathered several years of shifting enthusiasm, and several indicators are showing very positive activity in the world of antiques and collectibles. Sales are indicating consumers are buying vintage items not only as collectibles,...
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My special guest on Tuesday's show will be Robert Oxley, an expert, enthusiast, and dealer in antique trunks. Robert will talk with us about how to select trunks, how to recondition them, and how to market them. I'm bringing in a mystery trunk for Robert to analyze, and I'll be putting it out for sa...