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Around seven years ago, my family gave me the gift of art. Unlike most twenty-somethings, I wanted real art on my walls—something actually produced by the hands of a human, not a print. At the ...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2020/10/art-on-the-outside-collecting-pletan/

In The Beginning… Dolls, the playthings we know today, began their lives as something quite different. Called poppets or puppets originally, they were created as educational tools and for use i...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2016/10/the-lovely-disturbing-the-history-of-wax-dolls/

Since we went to that museum auction and got that fabulous antique folk art piece made of tintypes and seashells, I’ve been looking for more… I found this antique frame of nine photos decorat...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2014/10/tintypes-seashells/

A vintage tin litho paint box containing 100 colors. And here I thought I made up the word “fantabulous”!

http://www.inherited-values.com/2014/05/the-fantabulous-paint-box/

Of all the TV shows about antiques and collectibles, we’re still huge fans of History’s show Pawn Stars. So we were thrilled to receive a casting call announcement from the show — and turn ...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2014/04/pawn-stars-casting-an-exclusive-interview/

See on Scoop.it – Antiques & Vintage Collectibles Nearly 155 years before CompuServe debuted the first animated gif in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention called the Ph...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2014/02/155-years-before-the-first-animated-gif-joseph-plateau-set-images-in-motion-with-the-phenakistoscope-colossal/

You may have read the news about the titular movie prop from film noir classic The Maltese Falcon (1941) going up for auction — expected to fetch $1.5 million. The 50 pound falcon statue is val...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/11/lessons-from-the-maltese-falcon/

The ONLY hair museum in the world with hundreds of wreaths and thousands of jewelry pieces made from human hair.  The Hair jewelry was worn both by men and women of the Victorian period (1800 �...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/10/welcome-to-leilas-hair-museum/

I have become completely obsessed. Again. This time, it’s about vintage silhouettes. Of course, in general the whole idea of “vintage silhouettes” (from a German village or not) may seem qu...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/09/profiles-behind-vintage-silhouette-artists-are-shady/

The lifetime collection of Don and Diane Sayrizi – advanced collectors in many categories, but especially antique advertising – plus consignments from over 100 other advanced collectors from ...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/08/antique-campbells-soup-advertisng-tin-sign-expected-to-reach-40000-60000/

Isn’t this just so sweet?! See on www.facebook.com

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/08/vintage-hand-painted-just-married-sign/

Doctors have the American Medical Association; lawyers are represented by the American Bar Association, car dealers, teachers, religions, and even countries have organized representation to promo...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/07/fashioning-standards-for-industry-conduct-art-antiques/

The Lomasney Collection consists of over 800 hand-painted film posters originally displayed in the The Royal Hawaiian Theater in Honolulu. Painted in gouache on 44 by 28-inch artboard by artist J...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/07/lomasney-pop-film-art-poster-auction/

During her lifetime, Mary Griggs Burke, one of the most important private collectors of Japanese art in the world, kept an extra apartment on New York’s Upper East Side, right next door to anot...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2013/07/design-ideas-auctioning-a-little-house-and-library-chairs/

Combining my usual theme of collectors being curators, just like museum curators, with digital or online curation comes this story of New York collector Peter J. Cohen. Cohen snapped up vintage a...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2012/08/collectors-are-like-artists-collections-like-works-of-art/

When I first heard about the National Geographic Channel’s new show, America’s Lost Treasures, I was excited. The premise is that folks parade in, Antiques Roadshow style, to have their objec...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2012/07/is-americas-lost-treasures-a-lost-cause/

While many are excited about the Schiaparelli and Prada showing, there’s an upcoming auction at Freeman’s that fashionistas may also wish to know about. On Saturday, May 12, 2012, the Modern ...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2012/05/minimalistic-chic-modern-contemporary-art-auction-from-the-estate-of-fashionista-janet-brown/

The first scene filmed for Gone With The Wind (1939) was the burning of the Atlanta Depot. And it remains some of the most iconic film images of all time. Shot on December 10, 1938, using some ni...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2012/02/gone-with-the-wind-ashes-to-ashes/

When I stumbled into this auction for original Katzenjammer Kids art, I was excited to read the story behind the piece: Grapefruitmoon Gallery just acquired an important collection of pen & ink o...

http://www.inherited-values.com/2011/12/the-emma-pratt-hall-golden-age-of-illustration-collection/