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Featured Collectible - Vintage Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
Submitted by Vintage+Goodness=Happiness Blog
It’s only in the last 6 months or so that I’ve become aware of Japanese Kokeshi dolls, and I have to say I have fallen totally in love! Here is a great website I found that has wonderful information on the history of Kokeshi, and the different types and styles of […]
I know this isn’t a political blog…
Submitted by Vintage+Goodness=Happiness Blog
… but I feel the need to interrupt your regularly scheduled vintage love fest with this:
Will and I will be voting for Barack Obama on Tuesday - here’s hoping you will too!
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Vintage Paint By Numbers Score!
Submitted by Vintage+Goodness=Happiness Blog
I’ve written about vintage paint by numbers paintings before, and got a great response - what’s not to love, really? I have to show you what I scored last weekend - by far the cutest ones I have found so far, and they are all up at auction right now!:
Vintage Irish […]
Bill Harding, CEO of Bonanzle on the AuctionWally Show Tonight 9pm EST
Submitted by Vintage+Goodness=Happiness Blog
Tonight is a big show - we are lucky enough to have as our guest Bill Harding, the CEO of Bonanzle.com! If you haven’t heard of Bonanzle, it is an up and coming new site for people to sell their wares on that is growing by leaps and bounds every day! […]
Vintage dolls up for adoption!
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Vintage Bunny Costume Pose Doll
This week on eBay, Vintage Goodness is all about the dolls - in fact, I have been feeling very much like I am running my very own vintage doll adoption center! I’ve had a blast getting them listed, so I just had to come over and show […]
Surviving the New eBay - Tips for Vintage Sellers
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I just posted a new article over on The Vintage List blog - if you sell vintage on eBay, click on over and check it out!
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Antique publications change hands, blame the public
Written by Michael Vass
Video may have killed the radio, but it seems the internet is taking the legs out from antiques. At least that is one of the key reasons that you may notice big changes in several publications, in American and the U.K., in the next month or 2.
The reason that things will change […]
Antique BMX bicycles
Written by <Michael Vass
Just over the weekend I was at my first BMX event. A dirt jump competition held behind the Belmar Bar in Binghamton, New York. So it got me thinking about bicycles and antiques in general.
And much to my surprise (again) I found that there are antique BMX bicycles. Now one site I […]
Avoid Ruining Your Antiques
No one ruins an antique on purpose but hundreds of pieces of antique furniture are irreparably harmed each day by their owners because they simply don’t know any better. All of this harm is done in the course of attempting to care for antiques. Improper care for an antique not only creates significant monetary damage […]
The wary steps to antiquing
The world of antiques is a difficult one to traverse. There are many things that have to be on the minds of buyers and sellers. While this is not exhaustive, I do want to point out a couple of things that should be foremost in many minds.
Perhaps the most important thought is if it sounds […]
Antiques for the Environmentally Conscious
Well, this isn’t really an article about energy conservation, fossil fuel reduction, eating healthy, protecting our environment, saving the forest or organic foods. It’s about all of these things and much more.
Eighty percent of the world’s growth forests have been razed already. That’s from the demand for furniture in which China now produces one third […]
How to Repair an Antique
Glad you read the headline for this post and glad you decided to read the post because this post may save you thousands of dollars.
Every antique dealer and appraiser in the country has horror stories about clients who decided to repair their own antiques. I remember talking to an antique dealer in the great state […]
