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Official Kentucky Derby Glasses

People start collecting Kentucky Derby glasses for a variety of reasons; maybe they ride horses, their mother may have had one, they could be from Kentucky, or simply enjoy the thrill of a race (not to mention a good Mint Julep!). No matter the reason, Kentucky Derby glasses are a hot collectible.

Coach’s Corner To Partner With WorthPoint

Coach’s Corner Sports Auction partners with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors

Terminology Part I: What is Antique?

In the world of collecting, like in anything else, there’s a language used by insiders. From video gamers to traders in the stock market, talking the talk can be half the battle.

Whether collecting is your hobby or your profession, knowing how to navigate “collector speak” is a useful tool of the trade.

What We Collect

I’ve been collecting antique and vintage cartoons since I was a teenager in the 1940s – with the Good Lord’s help, I will reach 81 years at end of May!

In my collection I now have about a dozen examples of early cartoons from England and the United States, as well as some modern ones. (I also have a small collection of Persian and Indian miniatures from 19th century manuscripts.)

Masters of Food and Wine South America

This past month I attended the Masters of Food and Wine opening party held at the Palacio Duhau in Buenos Aires. Masters of Food and Wine is an annual conference put on by the Park Hyatt; it had been held in Carmel for close to twenty years. In 2007, it debuted in Mendoza, Argentina. This year's Masters of Food and Wine made a huge splash in Argentine wine country.

Susanin’s Partners with WorthPoint

Susanin’s Auctions joins WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors

The Classic Telephone

Vintage phones are popular for their nostalgic value and design. They’re the stuff of black-and-white movies and dime store sodas.

C. Downing Joins WorthPoint

C. Downing Auctions partners with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors

Diminutive Audio Equipment as Collectible

Musical toys are some of the most sought-after audio equipment in avant garde music genres. This phenomenon has made primitive, electronic instruments into collectibles. In addition to the sheer novelty of collecting poor quality, low-fi objects, the idea of toy keyboards from the eighties as collectibles speaks to the high-speed rate of progress in audio.

Rago Arts To Partner With WorthPoint

Rago Arts and Auction Center joins with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors

Shareable Collections

By nature people collect and accumulate based on need – food, clothing, and friends, for example, are necessary items that we gather and hold onto because we need them to get by. We also collect things we’d prefer to avoid, like bills, wrinkles, and worries. Sometimes we keep things when we’d do better to get rid of them; things that clutter our living space or our minds.

Magna Carta For Sale

Crocker Farm Joins WorthPoint

Crocker Farm partners with WorthPoint, a social network and search engine for collectors

Tools of the Trade

While sailors, carpenters, doctors, masons, and farmers all have tools designed specifically for their needs, spies and detectives seem to have the best tools. Like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes, you too can have a set of tools that will help you be a sleuth - as a furniture, art and decorative arts detective.

Legacy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know the country's most prestigious art museum, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, doesn't charge an entrance fee?

Movie and Television Merchandise as Collectibles

The box office tally isn't the whole story of a film's profit margin - "It's the merchandise, silly." So says Mel Brooks in his 1987 science fiction parody Spaceballs, as his character displays merchandise from the film - within the film - including bed sheets and a cereal box.

Making Paper from Paper

Magazines can be one of those collections that just happened - you weren't planning on collecting but you just couldn't get rid of those great issues. There were articles you still planned to read or great writing you might need to reference in the future - recipes, an editorial, beautiful pictures. Next thing you know, you've become a collector!

How Much Per Fume?

A tasteful perfume bottle can be a work of art and has long been a popular collectible. Here's a quick run through of the scent bottle lexicon to help you make sense of it all!

• A Commercial bottle is a perfume bottle available at the perfume counter, as opposed to a handmade, one of a kind.
• A Signed bottle is a commercial bottle signed by the designer.

Buckle Up, Soldier

Confederate belt buckles can be valued at thousands of dollars - a fact which has spurred an interesting pastime - digging for buckles. While record collectors refer to searching for valuable vinyl at stores or sales as "digging in the crates," "digging for buckles" in the southern United States literally means grabbing a shovel and unearthing a specific part of, say Tennessee, for example.

Postcards

Vintage and antique postcard collecting can be an enjoyable trip through time and space. American, Canadian, and European postcards are en vogue and are a lot of fun to hunt for at auctions online and in shops. The technical term for postcard collecting is deltiology. It's one of the most popular collectibles.

From Manmade to Machine Manufactured, Transitional Marbles Were Homemade

From 1880 to 1915 glass marbles were manufactured in the US by machine for the first time - or at least they were machine manufactured in part. A part of the process was still done by hand and the marbles made in this way are known as Transitional Marbles. They represent a bridge between manmade and machine manufactured marbles.

Have You Lost Your Marbles?

A thumb flicks a shiny marble across the cement and the camera zooms in on the child's face - tongue curled over his upper lip in consternation, his gaze steady - as the tiny ball rolls toward its target. A smile erupts when the marble hits its mark.

Falling Prices Mean More Bang

Now is the time to buy antiques and collectables. Some of the greatest collections have been assembled when the economy and antique market were down. Henry Frances DuPont amassed one of the greatest collections of Americana during the Great Depression, which are now on display at the Winterthur in Delaware.

It's a Brewer's Market

Like anything else made by man, BEER has a diverse and interesting history, rife for academic study. Those old tin cans in the basement could be worth polishing up and checking out. That metal Pabst Blue Ribbon sign and the funny, corkscrew souvenir grandpa bought for grandma on their honeymoon - these are valued pieces of Breweriana!

Thems Fighting Words

Pocket knives are collectible from boy scout days to the pen knife on your key chain. The Swiss Army Knife is currently the most popular version with multiple knives, scissors, a nail file, and a corkscrew as standard issue. Vintage or antique knives can make for a beautiful collection with mother of pearl or wooden handles, brass liners, fancy springs and various designs.

Toy Train Sets

A website dedicated to collecting model trains calls itself the "World's Greatest Hobby," and it isn't hard to imagine why. Collecting colorful toy train sets is an old and respected leisure occupation. From the time trains arrived as transportation, train sets have been created and collected.

A Penny for your thoughts..

Before electronics, PC’s, I pods, MP3 players and the world opening before our eyes with the internet, times were simpler. Days were longer, our minds wandered through the vastness of the unknown and we would dream.

Don't Smoke!...Collect!

Don't Smoke!...Collect Tobacciana

What a great area to collect in and it is hot! Whether it is pipes, tins, silks, baseball cards, signs or porcelain, there is something for everyone.