In this YouTube video, Antiques, Collectables and Declutter Expert Jamie Breese talks about Royal Commemoratives following the announcement of William and Catherine’s engagement. The wedding on 29 April, 2011 has generated enough buzz and would be nothing short of a treat for admirers of antiques and collectibles.
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A few of the thousands of items belonging to Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, went for auction at a department store in Beverly Hills.
In a four-day auction, 1,390 lots from Jackson’s Neverland ranch in California went for sale.
From Dailymail.co.uk:
Viewings of the items in the former Robinson-Mays department store were opened to the press yesterday giving an interesting insight to the eccentric world of Jackson.
The huge collection contains antique furniture, expensive artworks and a huge array of toys and games.
Amongst Jackson’s huge art collection, he appears to have a particular penchant for bronze figurines of children.
Amongst his sculpture collection there is a bronze ballerina lacing her shoe by Jim Davidson and an 11-year-old Ramon Parmenter sculpture of a girl with coloured patination.
Also on display are statues by notable sculptors Luca Madrassi, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Lorenzo Ghilgheri, R Aurili and Affortunato Gory and porcelain ornaments by Spanish firm Lladro.
A Versace vegetable dish, silver-plated asparagus servers, and a Royal Doulton dinner service were also up for sale.
A vast and eclectic collection of early technology comprising half a million individual items is on sale at Bonhams auction house.
The collection has all been amassed by antiques dealer Michael Bennett-Levy.
From BBC.co.uk:
At the heart of the auction are 24 pre-war televisions – the largest collection ever assembled for sale – with the oldest dating back to 1930. He has one of John Logie Baird’s “Televisors” from that year, along with the window display model used to market it.
There’s even a do-it-yourself kit to build a similar, mechanical TV from 1934 – available to Daily Express readers at the time for a little over £5.
All of it will be sold, along with 102 post-war models that together make up a complete history of TV.
“The first of everything in every field of technology is by definition important and it suddenly occurred to me in 1991 that no-one seemed to be collecting the world’s first televisions,” Mr Bennett-Levy said.
“The rest of this collection I thought I ought to do something with television design. But I had no idea, so I just collected everything and what you see is what I think is the best of what I found.”
The collection includes an array of collectibles around the television industry.
A carved stone head hailing from County Londonderry that could date back to 200 BC fetched 26,000 euros at an auction in Dublin.
The head was unearthed by Ross Pinkerton in the Sperrin Mountains, near Claudy, in the late 1930s.
From BBC.co.uk:
He found the stone head about 60 or 70 years ago when a stone wall was being repaired in the Claudy area. He saved it from being destroyed.
Accompanied by a letter from historian Dr Brian Lacy dating it between 200 BC and 200 AD, the head is said to be of great cultural importance.
“The human head represented the same sort of thing to the ancient Celt as the heart does to us,” Dr Lacy told BBC Radio Foyle.
“We symbolise in our culture the human heart as the seat of emotions and the human head was the same to the ancient Celts.
“And consequently all over western Europe, where the Celts lived in ancient times, the human head was carved and was preserved in various ways.”
Many imitations were carved in the 18th and 19th centuries, but Dr Lacy said he was very confident that this was the genuine article.
The head far exceeded its estimate price at a History, Literature, and Collectibles sale at Whyte’s Auctions in Dublin on Friday 23 April.
Mark Walberg, the “Antiques Roadshow” host and Florence native, paid a visit to his hometown Friday to help in the grand opening celebration for an antique consignment store.
Walberg greeted customers and fans at Palmetto Peddlers on Hoffmeyer Road in Florence as owners of the store kicked off a weekend-long grand opening celebration.
From www2.scnow.com:
“We’ve assembled about 150 of some of the best vendors of antiques throughout the Southeast that have their shops here,” said Richard Harrington, one of the owners of Palmetto Peddlers.
“We owe the success of the business, and it has been very successful, to the quality of vendors that we have and the quality of merchandise they bring through,” he said.
Walberg is a graduate of West Florence High School and Francis Marion University and served as the host of several national television programs before landing on PBS’s hit program, “Antiques Roadshow.”
“I really just came to support them(the Palmetto Peddler owners) in the great business…and actually, it’s any excuse to come back home,” Walberg said.
“I’m just grateful to be doing ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and it’s interesting that they should have an antiques business and I get to kind of help them out and support them as well,” he said.
The antique consignment store offers a warehouse-sized array of antiques and collectibles from vendors across the Eastern Carolinas.
Posted in Collectibles Tags: antique consignment store, antiques, Antiques Roadshow, Collectibles No Comments »With this YouTube video, Antiques, Collectables, and Declutter Expert Jamie Breese discusses about Royal Commemoratives following the announcement of William and Catherine’s engagement. The Royal Wedding, slated on April 29, 2011, will surely set the stage of antique collectors.
Posted in News, Videos Tags: antique collectors, antiques, Collectables, Declutter, Royal Commemoratives, Royal wedding, YouTube video No Comments »If you have been recently into putting your hands on the official Royal Wedding memorabilia and still have a hundred thousand pounds to spare, you just have a chance to get the big slice.
The childhood home of Kate Middleton, the semi-detached Victorian villa in the Berkshire village of Bradfield Southend, is on the market for £460,000 and will be sold at auction in June.
From Dailymail.co.uk:
Miss Middleton’s parents, Michael and Carole, bought the four-bedroom house for £34,700 in 1979 when they were both working for British Airways.
The future queen was born in 1982 and lived in the house, named West View, until she was 13 when the house was sold for £158,000.
The Middletons set up their partywear business in 1987 and the money it generated eventually led to the family selling up and moving to a bigger home in 1995.
The auction will be held just weeks after its former resident marries Prince William.
In this YouTube video, you can witness stunning artisanship of Indian mirror work or cut glass mirror work that was largely promoted during the mughal art era. The exclusive art occupies a special place in the context of ornamenting the interiors of monumental buildings and palaces.
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