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Antique Porcelain: How to Identify, Value, and Sell Your Treasures

Sarasota Antique Buyers

For those interested in antique porcelain identification, value, and marketing, this book is for you. Grasping Porcelain Markings Identification of your piece starts with porcelain marks. Limoges: Often stamped with “Limoges, France,” this porcelain is prized for its superb hand-painted details.

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How Do I Get My Art Appraised?

Fine Art Estates

Over the years, I have spent a lot of time on the phone trying to help people determine if the painting they found in a garage sale is worth anything. I took no pleasure in having to explain that they had one of the many reproductions of the painting and their hopes of having won the art lottery was only a lovely dream.

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Exploring the Timeless Beauty: Appraising California Impressionism

JSK Fine Art Appraisals

Characteristics of California Impressionism Plein Air Painting: Central to California Impressionism is the practice of plein air painting. Artists ventured outdoors to paint en plein air, capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere directly onto their canvases. Provenance can significantly influence the appraisal.

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Understanding the Different Levels of Value: It’s Worth What Where and When?

Artifactual History Appraisal

All appraisal reports written in compliance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) have to include identification of the level of the market the appraised values are set in and the effective date of the valuation.

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Evaluating Your Collection

Penrose Appraisals

Speaking of ornament, the way in which an object is engraved, or painted, or carved, or any of a hundred other ways ornament has been used can make a tremendous difference in the overall quality of the item. The proper identification of materials sometimes requires testing, which may require the assistance of an expert. Provenance.

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Vintage Cookware: Hidden Culinary Gems

WorthPoint

They are usually silver and black with logos and identification marks that sometimes go unnoticed in a yard sale box or a thrift store shelf. These pots were designed by author and food critic Duncan Hines (the man, not the cake mix) and featured a gold-painted knob on the lid.