The November 2018 Chicagoland Antique Advertising, Slot Machine & Jukebox Show is moving to a bigger location, to the Lake County Fairgrounds Event Center.

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Jennifer Fisher of Queen Creek, Arizona spent the halcyon days of her childhood absorbed in the Nancy Drew books of the 1970s and ’80s. Shes turned her passion for the plucky sleuth into a full-time career.

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A trio of fine art fair events return to Miami in early December. All-event passes are available for Art Miami, CONTEXT Art Miami, and Aqua Art Miami.

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There has been an explosion in the value of toys for grown ups: classic cars, watches, jewelry. All this inessential stuff that those with huge wallets are collecting and investing in.

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By Kaitlyn Julian Pook & Pook, Inc., of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is presenting its Online Only Coins & Jewelry auction on Wednesday, Nov. 7, beginning at 9 a.m. This online auction spans more than 500 lots and includes hundreds of collectible coins and many distinctive pieces of jewelry. The sale draws from various local estates and collections with scores of pieces hitting the market for the first time in decades. Online […]

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A fresh-to-the-market oil painting by the French impressionist master Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), done around 1918 and titled Portrait of Gabrielle leaning on her hand, promises to be the centerpiece lot in an auction planned for fall or winter.

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Recently the Antique Trader received a query from one of our subscribers asking why children did not smile in photographs during the nineteenth century. As a photograph collector, this is a question I have been asked many times throughout the years.

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Kids who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s had the best of both worlds when it came to breakfast cereal. The breakfast food was tasty and sugar coated, but the best part was the cereal premiums.

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Collectors from all over the world are still finding great bottles & treasures from the past. But its time to get younger fans hooked on bottle collecting.

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Much has been written in the last few years about furniture fakes in the antiques trade. Heres a discussion of some of the fakery and fake finishes.

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