Thad Woods Auction still going strong after 40 years
An old 5-foot metal neon office sign, a wind-up tabletop Victrola, wooden toys, ornate table settings, 1920s movie posters, vintage clocks, snow shoes and duck decoys are some of the hundreds of items up for sale at a recent Thad Woods Auction in ...
www.citizen-times.com
March 20, 2015
Kovels: Ticker tape machines sought by collectors
Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to discontinued technology -- old computers, transistor radios, early television sets, computer games and even old typewriters, fans and ticker tape machines. Advertisement The 11-inch ...
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April 3, 2015
Collectors want discontinued technology
Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to discontinued technology — old computers, transistor radios, early television sets, computer games and even old typewriters, fans and ticker tape machines. A recent auction The 11 ...
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March 28, 2015
The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, sold a small four-drawer Philadelphia chest of drawers with a dark old surface and a Connecticut desk-and-bookcase before the first weekend was over. Windsor furniture sold, too. David Schorsch ...
www.maineantiquedigest.com
March 13, 2015
Let's not be sheepish about the tearful tales
Ey up, it's time to talk dialect with Adam Collier, who shares a rhyme about an old dog, and that's not his father. Ey up, ist tha alreet? It's been a long old month has March and thank goodness the clocks go forward in the early hours of Sunday and we ...
www.gazetteherald.co.uk
March 25, 2015
Restoring Historic Lobbies in Luxury Buildings
Honed Calacatta Tucci marble floors in a herringbone pattern with black stone accents nod to the original travertine floors in the old section, where bronze figures are inset into the floors. In the new lobby, the reception desk will have a bronze ...
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2015
Real Estate in Italy
A center island separates the kitchen from the dining room, where two fanciful metal chandeliers fashioned to look like vines hang over the table. The kitchen fireplace is the only one in tourism site: turismo.intoscana.it. Arezzo antique fair ...
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February 25, 2015
The Game
The cool metal door handle struck my hand with a faint ache ... I tripped out the door, and ran across the street to the clock shop. The Olde Style lights above the walnut-door shown yellowley out onto the cream-colored sidewalk. I opened the door like ...
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April 11, 2015
Mad about the '60s
metal or plastic case on legs -- sometimes, a pedestal. Westclox is a past and current brand of such timepieces, including the Big Ben. Some of today's Big Ben alarm clocks evoke the decades even before Mad Men, the 1930s and '40s. • Ashtrays.
www.nwaonline.com
April 10, 2015
Tour Vartan home near Brownsboro Road
Painted metal chairs flank a metal tray table ... Paintings, an ornate mirror and an antique clock from Stockholm line the walls. "Moustier" upholstered walls create a sophisticated backdrop for her paintings in the guest room. "Sienna Stripe" blinds ...
www.courier-journal.com
April 8, 2015
For some of us, the old-school landline phone habit dies hard
And in part, it’s a purely personal-style preference. I have a cherished phone at home, a refurbished Western Electric Model No. 302, the heavy black desk set that virtually every American home had between the 1930s and ’50s. It has a metal rotary dial ...
www.dallasnews.com
April 6, 2015
Public clock coming to downtown
will be mounted atop a cast-metal pole that will match the burgundy downtown street-lights, and a number of designs are still in the running. The clock may incorporate chimes to announce the time or even carillon-style songs for various holidays and other ...
www.mankatofreepress.com
April 3, 2015
Kovels: Ticker tape machines sought by collectors
A recent auction featuring furniture, cigar cutters, stoneware crocks, Chippendale furniture and maps was also offering an antique stock ticker. The 11-inch-high machine had a metal label explaining ... Jewelry and desk accessories were made.
www.inforum.com
April 3, 2015
Treasure Hunt: Clock dials by artist Carol Buonato to be sold in silent auction later this month
Around 1980, Carol began taking lessons to learn how to paint clock dials using the same methods as the original clock artists. At the time, Nick was starting to repair antique clocks. She also learned how to do reverse painting on glass, another style of ...
readingeagle.com
March 31, 2015
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