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Antique Textiles: Finding the Best Dealers, Appraisers, and Auctions

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

Collectors have treasured antique textiles for centuries, offering a glimpse into the past and the history of fashion and design. Whether you are a collector or simply curious about antique textiles, knowing where to find the best dealers, appraisers, and auctions can help you navigate this fascinating world. What are Antique Textiles?

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Antique Porcelain Dolls: How Much Are Porcelain Dolls Worth?

Invaluable

Left: 15″ French Fashion Lady , sold for $3,000 via Apple Tree Auction Center (May 2018). As fashion changed, so did dolls’ hairstyles, which are good indicators of when they were made. Most of these doll heads were manufactured in Germany and were considered fashionable, as they resembled expensive white marble.

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How to Start an Antique Collection

Jerry's Antiques and Estates

Going to antique shops, frequenting estate sales, and asking for advice from specialists are all excellent ways to get an understanding. Jerry’s Antiques focuses on helping collectors with various antiques and offers professional appraisals.

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About to Get Shafted Again

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The art market follows this trend: paintings depicting Native Americans as ignorant, bloodthirsty savages are much harder to sell than they were 30 years ago, and their fair market value has consequently decreased. A telling example can be found in a sale at an auction in Nevada last month.

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The Shelf-Life of Evil

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The Appraisers Association of America is releasing a new edition of its handbook Appraising Art next spring. I was asked to contribute a chapter on appraising the art of the American West. Since finishing my chapter, I’ve been thinking about how different my contribution would have been if it had been written, say, 30 years ago.

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How Investors Can Thrive in a Lopsided Art Market

McAllister Fossum Appraisal Services

Global sales rose 7.5 A small fraction of auction sales were executed for eight- or even nine-figure sums and were concentrated in one segment of the market, Postwar and Contemporary, and one country, the United States. Suzanne Gyorgy, head of Citi Art Advisory, a service of Citigroup’s private bank, observes the same trend. “A