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Showing results 11 - 20 of 21 for the tag: biography.
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Thom Pattie and the art of the auction (7/10/08)
Chief Worthologist Thom Pattie started out as a utility-company linesman stringing cable and putting up transformers—clearly a long way, figuratively and literally, from the antiques and collectibles business.
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Thom Pattie and the Art of the Auction (7/10/08)
Chief Worthologist Thom Pattie started out as a utility company linesman stringing cable and putting up transformers – clearly a long way and high up from the antiques and collectibles business.
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“The Marilyn Monroe of The Early Years” (7/2/08)
Olive Thomas was “Everyone’s sweetheart”Like Marilyn Monroe,Olive Thomas was ethereally beautiful.A school drop out and married in her teens.That marriage to Benard Krug Thomas,ended in divorce.Also like Marilyn,she gave various versions of her “real” name.Again like the legendary Marilyn,The lovely girls first job was in a factory in her home town.After her brief marriage,Olive went to Harlem to
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Howard Lau: The man who know baseball card tricks (5/28/08)
A mother and her nine-year-old son walked into Worthologist Howard Lau’s Houston Sports Connection in search of baseball cards. The boy hadn’t been much interested in collecting until baseball cards became a major topic of discussion among the kids on his baseball team. How should her son collect cards the mother asked?
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Fred Taylor: The Furniture Hunter (5/11/08)
Fred Taylor’s career in furniture, furniture restoration, antiques and collectibles began when he and his wife, Gail, moved from a one-bedroom apartment to their first home in 1973 – a 2,000-square-foot house in Tampa, Florida. “We didn’t own a stick except a couple of bean bag chairs,” Taylor said. And so the hunt through yard sales and junk shops began.
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Queen of Barbies: Meet Melissa Musselman (4/25/08)
When the Durham National Heritage Museum hosted a successful exhibition of Barbie collectibles in 2001, Melissa Musselman decided to take it to the next level. She tried to organize a national touring exhibition of the collectibles, which included the best items from 30 top Barbie experts.
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Viktor Schreckengost Dies at 101 (2/1/08)
 He wasn’t particularly well known, but he liked it that way. Yet, Viktor Schreckengost was considered an American Da Vinci because, as an industrial designer over 70 years, he is personally responsible for many of our collectibles today.
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