Appraiser Helps Sort the Rare From the Rest
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By Chris Shull, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 21--One man wanted to learn more about a family quilt. A woman was curious about a vase she bought at a flea market.   Another hoped a painting might help send her kids to college.
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American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
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A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector.
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By Antonio Olivo, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 8--As cultural treasures go, the house is a Mickey Mouse job. And the way it's being sold is a little goofy.
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Improbably, a purveyor with a reputation for emptying pockets was coming to the rescue.
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Art collectors spend millions to buy masterpieces, but the masterpiece they buy today could prove to be virtually worthless tomorrow if they aren&#39;t careful.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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New online service Mac2Sell estimates resale value of used Macintosh systems.
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It's an art collection that could hold as many as 80 works by Vincent van Gogh and nearly half-a-dozen by Paul Cezanne, that is if the champions of a dead Dutch furniture dealer are to be believed.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Andrew Pritt has found some unique and valuable things while working as a trash collector, but none of them came close to the metal box he recently found under a trash bin...
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A previously unknown Philadelphia carved mahogany tilt-top tea table finds its way to a forthcoming Americana sale at Christieâs.
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It can be safely guessed that Stuart Pivar, a scientist and art collector, has more than 300 objects in his duplex apartment.
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Finding the gently used car of your dreams.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.  - Andrew Pritt has found some unique and valuable things while working as a trash collector, but none of them came close to the metal box he recently found under a trash bin...
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Savvy investors can find retail bargains -- but not everything's on sale.
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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare  chance at owning some common possessions of late President John  F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and  other effects from their homes.
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Some of the world's most famous meteorites are up for sale in a New York auction called the first of its kind.