Ancient Coin Store Closed

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I decided to close my ancient coins store (www.greekandromancoins.com). Instead, I will convert it into a portal of information about ancient coins, for all collectors!

Apologies to all customers, present, past and future.

Please still feel free to contact me with questions about ancient coins, I shall endeavour to do my best to help.

Peter

Antique Show set for weekend

Antique hunters will relish the gathering of vendors that will be on hand at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday for the annual Spring Antique Show and Sale put on by the downtown district.
The event will feature over 35 dealers from all over the West from Oregon, Nevada, Northern and Southern California and Arizona according to event organizer Diane Putman and will cater to a wide variety of visitors from all over the area.
KPAY's radio host John Humphries will be on hand for evaluations on Saturday only and in addition all the downtown antique stores will be open and within walking distance of the auditorium to provide additional shopping opportunities.
Putman said the dealers and stores feature a wide variety of goods from sterling silver plated silverware, furniture, pottery, glass, Depression glass, elegant glass and baubles of all kinds.

Rare Collection of Antique Maps Unveiled at Northwestern

Established in 1954, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago is said to have the largest collection of African art, history and literature in the world. Recently, it unveiled a collection of antique African maps created as far back as the 15th century.
David Easterbrook, the curator of the library, says that the early cartographers who created these maps based their data mainly on anecdotal information from travelers. They also used the limited literature of European scholars, and antiquities of Greek and Roman scholars who had written of, or traveled to, Africa.
“They were taking text and turning it into something visual," he said.
Easterbrook adds that the maps cover in particular North Africa and Algeria, Madagascar and other islands, and a few city plans.

Find one-of-a-kind collectibles at Zany Coffee and Collectibles

"We have things you don't normally find at your everyday Walmart," Mary Szanyi-Coffey, owner of Zany Coffee and Collectibles, said.Zany Coffee, opened in November 2006, carries a vast array of unique collectibles such as Looney Tunes characters, Peanuts, Star Trek, Star Wars, classic cartoon characters and McDonalds character figurines. The store also sells handmade jewelry and artwork from local artists as well as music boxes from the San Francisco Music Box Company, Crazy Mountain Arts, Funko Toys, Silkstone Barbie dolls and consignment collectibles.As the name states, they also are a coffee shop carrying cappuccinos, lattes, mochas, hot chocolate, smoothies and frappes as well as a small selection of baked goods.

A new way of selling the old

Antiques are big business - and there is no antiques business bigger than Tomlinsons. which has become a shrine for connoisseurs the world over. RON GODFREY, business editor, visits the North Yorkshire honey pot for home makers and aficionados alike.
IF TOMLINSONS' 75,000 sq ft warehouse is a North Yorkshire cathedral dedicated to the thrilling thingamajigs of history, then Sarah Worrall is its high priestess.
You only have to hear her intoning her litany of love for a madly beautiful (or is it beautifully mad? ) George III tilt-top breakfast table with crossbanded edge on a pedestal and four reeded supports on brass hairy paw casters to know that she speaks the language of antiques fluently and with passion.
Such is her reverie within that mighty rectangle set against the rural sky outside Tockwith, that it is almost as though the £2,495 plus VAT price tag is an afterthought.

Police find three antiques stolen from Minister’s house

KUCHING: Police have recovered three antiques belonging to Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Datuk Effendi Norwawi which were stolen from his house last month.
Sarawak Deputy Commissioner of Police SAC I Datuk Kuik Harris said the antiques which included a sword and a keris, were found in a house in Kota Samarahan near here on Tuesday.
Several other items believed to be stolen were also found.
SAC I Kuik told a press conference at the Kuching police headquarters on Wednesday that the police were carrying surveillance on the house on Tuesday morning when a car carrying five men drove up to it.
When they realised there were policemen present, they sped away.
However, one of the men fell out of the car because the car door was open.
The man, a 30-year-old Indonesian, was arrested and when the house was searched the police found the stolen items.
Among the items seized were a computer, laptop, generator, cameras, guitar, serving tray and teapot.
Also seized were a pair of police shoes and a police raincoat, believed to be used by the gang to impersonate the police.
We are now hunting the remaining four suspects, believed to be one local and three Indonesians, SAC I Kuik said.

A new way of selling the old

Antiques are big business - and there is no antiques business bigger than Tomlinsons. which has become a shrine for connoisseurs the world over. RON GODFREY, business editor, visits the North Yorkshire honey pot for home makers and aficionados alike.
IF TOMLINSONS' 75,000 sq ft warehouse is a North Yorkshire cathedral dedicated to the thrilling thingamajigs of history, then Sarah Worrall is its high priestess.
You only have to hear her intoning her litany of love for a madly beautiful (or is it beautifully mad? ) George III tilt-top breakfast table with crossbanded edge on a pedestal and four reeded supports on brass hairy paw casters to know that she speaks the language of antiques fluently and with passion.
Such is her reverie within that mighty rectangle set against the rural sky outside Tockwith, that it is almost as though the £2,495 plus VAT price tag is an afterthought.

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A new way of selling the old

Antiques are big business - and there is no antiques business bigger than Tomlinsons. which has become a shrine for connoisseurs the world over. RON GODFREY, business editor, visits the North Yorkshire honey pot for home makers and aficionados alike.
IF TOMLINSONS' 75,000 sq ft warehouse is a North Yorkshire cathedral dedicated to the thrilling thingamajigs of history, then Sarah Worrall is its high priestess.
You only have to hear her intoning her litany of love for a madly beautiful (or is it beautifully mad? ) George III tilt-top breakfast table with crossbanded edge on a pedestal and four reeded supports on brass hairy paw casters to know that she speaks the language of antiques fluently and with passion.
Such is her reverie within that mighty rectangle set against the rural sky outside Tockwith, that it is almost as though the £2,495 plus VAT price tag is an afterthought.

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Master craftsman reproduces Early American furniture

With power equipment and antique hand tools, woodworker James King toils daily to preserve the techniques and furniture styles of the master craftsmen of early America. In his home in rural Hudson, Ill., King, 51, builds reproductions of fine furniture produced by artisans in this country from 1700 to 1850. Period-inspired furniture and historical reproductions are the focus of King's business, Post and Beam, which he has operated full time for eight years. He receives orders from museums, businesses and homeowners from across the United States - the majority from the northeast part of the country. His work can range in price from $800 for a small table to $15,000 for a copy of an 18th century highboy. He recently was commissioned to build a reproduction of a 1775 Chippendale-style looking glass for George Washington's home in Mount Vernon, Va.

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Small is big: Miniature dioramas, and Dinky cars

Collectible toys - including a niche collectible, miniature dioramas - will be featured at two suburban sales this weekend.
The dioramas, along with an assortment of dolls, will be offered by Stephenson's Auction beginning at 5 tonight at its gallery, 1005 Industrial Blvd. in Southampton. Roughly 35 dioramas, electrified models each about 13 inches high by 25 inches wide and 12 inches deep, depict a variety of quaint scenes with miniature furniture and figures about 6 inches tall.
A barbershop diorama includes a shoeshine stand, a brass clothes tree, a barber pole, and a cigar-store Indian. A costume and shoe salon displays footwear ranging from galoshes to ballet slippers.
An 1870s trophy-room diorama comes with hunter, animal heads, a gun collection mounted on the walls, a hand-painted landscape, and a globe reflecting the world as it looked in 1850.

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