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Showing results 21 - 30 of 46 for the tag: collecting.
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Kent celebration (6/29/08)
Editor’s Note: Are your artworks, antiques and collectibles trapped in seclusion or piled in the corner like junk mail? If you need help displaying your collection, send us your questions, and let our Worthologist, Christopher Kent, help you resolve the problem.
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How to Start a Baseball Card Collection (6/23/08)
Whether you are doing it as an investment or for a hobby, starting a baseball card collection is an exciting venture. Collecting baseball cards is as much a part of growing up as Saturday morning cartoons and Hungry Hungry Hippos. That being said, many beginners experience difficulty starting their collections.
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How to Store Your Baseball Cards (6/23/08)
If you have been following my series on how to start a baseball card collection, you already know how to choose which cards best suit your collection and where you can find them.
Part 1 “How to Start a Baseball Collection”
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Confessions of an Eclectic Collector (6/22/08)
 When asked, “What antiques do you collect?” I usually reply, “I am an eclectic collector.” Instead of limiting myself to one area, I study multiple but distinct categories of art and antiques. I’ve always thought that limiting your scope, as a collector, is depriving yourself of the beauty and histories of the hundreds of primitive, medieval and even modern cultures of our civilization.
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Collecting Can Be Wise Investing (6/20/08)
 Over the years I have met many folks who collect
antiques, fine art and collectibles. They talk about
their acquisitions enthusiastically and devote their
free time to them. It’s obvious that they collect for
pleasure and curiosity – not because they are looking
to make money.
Over time they make some wise and interesting choices,
and then a funny thing happens. That stamp collection
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Collector Paperweights (6/17/08)
 “I found a wonderful art glass vase at a house sale, but I left behind some pottery and a paperweight and now it’s weighing heavy on my mind.”
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Rare World Coins Coming into their Own (6/17/08)
 A gold aureus of Severus Alexander showing the colosseum realized $800,000 in the Mellennia sale auctioned by Ira and Larry Goldberg May 26. The auction realized $23,024,765.00. The firm said this might be the highest single-day world coin auction total ever.
A gold aureus of Brutus realized $575,000.00. The coin was graded Choice AU by NGC.
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Young Athletes – Identifying the New Legends (6/2/08)
The world’s biggest name in soccer, David Beckham, played an exhibition game February 20th. He joined his L.A. Galaxy teammates in Hawaii for a match against the Japanese team Gamba Osaka. At the final whistle, the Galaxy had been defeated, and according to soccer tradition, Beckham removed his jersey, walked over to the crowd, and handed it to two boys.
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“Refuse Treasures” (4/26/08)
It’s funny that “One Man’s Junk is Another Man’s Treasure” it’s so true, every since me and my wife started our new career in the Self Storage business, we have been excited to take the trash out, because usually, 4 out of 10 times, we would find something exciting and in disbelief that someone would throw something away that is either valuable or a something a needy family could use.
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