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Reed and Barton Silverware: An Exquisite Addition to Your Dining Experience

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

Crafted with precision and attention to detail, each piece in their collection exudes sophistication and luxury. Every step in the production process, from the intricate hand-engraving on their formal patterns to the seamless polishing of their casual collections, demonstrates meticulous attention to detail.

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Colonial American Silver: A Revolution in Craftsmanship

Invaluable

In addition, we’ll offer some core tips for collecting colonial American silver as we reflect on the legacy of these marvelous metalworkers. In addition to the status that material conveyed, silver pieces also became a prime means of commemorating significant events like births and marriages as the medium was primed for added inscriptions.

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Evaluating Your Collection

Penrose Appraisals

So you've started a collection. Or maybe you've been collecting for years. As the cliche goes, if you can think of something, there is someone who is collecting it. The phenomenon of collecting is universal. Follow them, and you will be sure to get more and more pleasure out of your collecting activities.

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Champagne Glass History: How Shape Affects Taste

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Collection of Sixteen Period Wine Glasses , Sold via New Orleans Auction Galleries for $430 on July 28, 2012. Set of eight crystal engraved and gilded champagne glasses , offered on September 5, 2015 via Galartis. First, glassmakers could manipulate their material in its softened state for longer. Hawkes cut glassware.

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Household goods: Exclusive, iconic and designer pieces that should be valued

ValuePros Appraisal Services

In all these scenarios, the owners know the paid and historical value of things, but it often happens that, by inheriting these collections of objects, little by little the objectivity of the real / current value of said pieces is lost. In this area, the collections are usually analyzed by our ART specialists at VALUEPROS.

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Art and Science Collide: The Beauty of Scientific Instruments Through the Ages

Invaluable

Ancient Astrolabe Elaborately engraved and intricately designed, astrolabes were at the forefront of science in ancient times, as they connected curious stargazers to the world around them. A Rare Medieval Brass Astrolabe, Probably Italian, late 13th/Early 14th Century. Sold for £80,000 via Bonhams (April 2024).

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A Client's Guide For How to Take Photographs of Art and Antiques to Send to An Appraiser

Artifactual History Appraisal

The camera pictured above actually looks a lot like the one I use in my own appraisal firm for photographing client collections but your phone will be fine if that is what you have available. To add a few notes of my own, I’d like to reassure readers that you don’t need to have a fancy camera to do this. Provenance Paint?