How to restore antique opera glasses
A round of calls and e-mails to area clock-repair shops turned up one person interested in taking on a job like yours: John A. Stephens Jr., who runs Stephens & Stephens, a clock shop in Havre de Grace, Md. (410-939-3334; www.clockology.com). Gary ...
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April 1, 2015
Peirce Mansion volunteers finish latest phase of restoration
Friends of the Peirce Mansion Restoration Committee have volunteered thousands of hours and spent thousands of dollars raised through antique book sales and special event rentals to restore the 1893 Victorian-Era home to its former glory. They'll ...
siouxcityjournal.com
April 4, 2015
X-ray reveals Western clock given to Tokugawa Ieyasu made in Belgium, not Spain
British antique clock expert David Thompson wrote a research paper on the discovery. A replica is now being This oldest Western clock in Japan is a brass item 21.5 centimeters high, 12.5 cm wide and weighs about 2.8 kilograms. The Spanish sovereign ...
ajw.asahi.com
April 4, 2015
Buffalo Central Terminal Treasures
The most noted example was several years ago when it raised $25,000 to get the original concourse clock from a Chicago antique dealer. More recently, there was an on line fundraising effort to get a light fixture back when it came up for sale in a ...
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March 27, 2015
An Urban Archaeologist Lets Go
Or the 10-foot-diameter antique brass-and-glass grand chandelier, circa 1918. “The design of this massive Nonetheless, rare remains the plutocrat with a mantelpiece broad enough to support a 10-foot-high train-station clock. I didn't think it ...
www.wsj.com
March 15, 2015
The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair at Blenheim Palace
The very best of every discipline is showcased including furniture, pictures, silver, early needlework, antique boxes, sculpture, clocks and barometers, carpets and textiles, jewellery, Oriental and English ceramics, garden ornaments and many other ...
www.artfixdaily.com
April 8, 2015
Collectors want discontinued technology
Cowles Syndicate Inc. This strange brass object is an early stock ticker tape, a very unusual collectible that can be displayed like a piece of sculpture. It auctioned for $2,460. Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to ...
www.reviewjournal.com
March 28, 2015
) in Carthage, where he has taught since 1970. For more than 20 years Bill conducted the state's first Traveling Texas History class, a three-hour credit course which featured a 2,100-mile itinerary. On Saturday morning a historical marker would be unveiled, and that evening the annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet would be held. My invitation came from Winters native Randall Conner, prominent in the field of agriculture and community leadership, who first asked me to deliver brief remarks at the unveiling. I was pleased with the assignment, and I went to work to put together an entertaining version of the rich history of the West Texas community. I spent the night in Gatesville, and on Saturday morning everything had a light coating of ice. Randall called to inform me that conditions were so bad in Winters that the ten o’clock marker ceremony had been postponed until Sunday afternoon. I took my time and maneuvered to Winters by early afternoon. Randall met me, took me to a guest house, then put me in his pickup for a tour of Winters.
Densid Thaw had always thought his life would constitute a great novel. He waited at the Dolt bus shelter in a grenadier guards uniform. It was handed down from his great-great-grandfather and consisted of a bearskin mitre, boots scuffed yet slimy with polish, trousers re-seamed, and a scarlet tunic hardened by the years into a shell of rigid cotton. Stood to attention, one step out from the coverage of the shelter’s roof, in the oncoming hail, he checked his watch: 7:20am. The Dolt bus shelter was plated in lead like all the buildings in Downstream, and the lantern hanging from its eaves was... All buildings were square, Downstream being square in its plot therefore in its plotting of housing, spaces, roads also. One of Densid’s hands froze tight as ice around his briefcase [containing his geometer’s kit, packed lunch, academic work, personal schedule, etc. As the beating grew louder, closer, faster, he discerned its location to be in the middle of the road, from where came a beastly grunt. Complete stillness is impossible, and Densid knew: he practised. Although he could not see through the snow, he knew the thing was heavy when the vibrations started to come through the soles of his boots. Densid stepped forwards, out of the shelter, remembering months ago reading in the almanac about the prospect of their arrival.
I created a shadow box that looks like a book. I cut out a piece of cardboard from a box and covered it with glue inside and out and adhered white tissue paper that was previously all scrunched up. When that was dry I applied gesso and then crackle paste. I scored and cut a piece of heavy white cardstock to create a shadow box. AVJ monogram and all other cutouts you see in this collage were created from 6 cutouts each all glued together to give then extra dimension. Then all the cutouts were covered with black soot crackle paint. Keyhole and the key were embellished with liquid pearls prior to applying crackle paint. I painted the butterfly with red acrylic paint and then covered it with Black Soot Crackle Paint. Then I applied Distress Paints: Fired Brick, Wild Honey, Tarnished Brass and Mustard Seed and added a few ruby crystals. I added a clock arm to the center to create it's body. You can also see a clock and a couple of gears in the bottom right corner. As you can see from the photos and description, this project is not "Anything Tim" it is actually "Everything Tim" I used techniques seen in his tutorials for this years tags, plethora of paints, inks and embellishments.
The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair at Blenheim Palace
The very best of every discipline is showcased including furniture, pictures, silver, early needlework, antique boxes, sculpture, clocks and barometers ... extremely rare late 17th century English brass chandelier dated 1688. Collectors of ceramics ...
www.artfixdaily.com
April 1, 2015
Antique Appraisal Day planned in Franklin, April 12
FRANKLIN – The Franklin Historical Museum, 80 West Central St., Franklin, will host an Antique Appraisal ... paintings and prints, lamps, clocks, decorative accessories; Hummels and music boxes, Sterling silver, pewter and brass, American, Victorian ...
franklin.wickedlocal.com
April 5, 2015
X-ray reveals Western clock given to Tokugawa Ieyasu made in Belgium, not Spain
British antique clock expert David Thompson wrote a research paper on the ... This oldest Western clock in Japan is a brass item 21.5 centimeters high, 12.5 cm wide and weighs about 2.8 kilograms. The Spanish sovereign gave it to Ieyasu as a token of ...
ajw.asahi.com
April 3, 2015
How to restore antique opera glasses
A round of calls and e-mails to area clock-repair shops turned up one person ... noted in an e-mail that antique opera glasses often feature mother of pearl and gilt brass (brass with a gold wash), so it’s important not to use any harsh chemicals.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2015
Antiques: Story linking painter's box to Winston Churchill is weak
My research tells me it was made by the Ansonia Clock Co. of Ansonia, Connecticut, about 1910. It’s 30 centimetres high, in very good condition and retains a brass tacked-on label ... John Sewell is an antiques and fine art appraiser.
ottawacitizen.com
April 1, 2015
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