As everyone knows, we sell collectibles and antiques. What some of you may not know is that we collect a couple of things ourselves. One of the things that I collect is Wedgwood Jasperware. Although I do buy more recent pieces occasio...
I've posted over 200 items for sale in the Classifieds & Auctions, but until now I hadn't cross-listed them with Craigslist. I posted for sale this morning an Arts & Crafts/Mission Sideboard, then a few minutes ago, I used the "share" feature i...
I say “stuff” because these guidelines will travel beyond a particular category. So, to keep it simple, we’ll call it “stuff”.
First, in order to date items that are Czech, you need to understand a bit of history.
Czecho...
An online option for tracking art and artists is artprice (http://web.artprice.com/).
Artprice just opened as a global auction site in January 2012. There are free and paid memberships. If you're a paid subsciber then the benefits expand. But ...
When anything is popular, it tends to be imitated and that goes for Lapis Lazuli as well. Key characteristics need to be present in order to authenticate it as being real and of value as a semi-precious stone.
To go back in history just a bit, the original rhinestones were actually Quartz pebbles from the Rhine River (thus their name). Once those stones were depleted for jewelry the rhinestones we know today were made from glass, some leaded, others not, and...
Everyone gets pretty inventive when displaying jewelry but sometimes we need to display a necklace and really do not want to go out and buy display pieces. Well, why not make your own?
Stella Hodge shows you how to make your own and the ...
Before pedals and gears were invented there was the Draisine, sometimes referred to as swift-walkers. Invented in 1817 by German inventor, Karl von Drais, became popular in 19th Century Europe and the U.S. At the time they were seen as novelties,...
