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Posted August 22, 2008

Stolen Picasso print recovered in Brazil-the "Minotaur, Drinker and Women" was taken from Sao Paulo's Estacao Pinacoteca Museum on June 12 along with two other prints. Read More...

Despite the Daguerrotype’s short lifespan of about two decades, many dramatic images were captures. Take a look at 12 from the 1800s that include Abraham Lincoln, a steamship, children, a Chinese man and a fallen Confederate soldier. Read More...

Want to learn how to make your own Daguerrotype?
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EBay announces sweeping changes, heading toward more fixed-price sales to take on Amazon. Read More...

Auction Wally appraises items online. Here’s his take on an Asian hand-carved drop front desk.
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He couldn’t take it with him, so the police are looking for the real owners of an apartment full of artwork, much of it stolen. Read More...

Ahh, a trip to romantic Italy—a Warner Brothers’ glass collector’s paradise?
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Here’s what every advertising collector needs—Super Osama bin Laden Kulfa (candy) Balls. Sold by our friends, the Chinese.
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Posted August 14, 2008

 Be a Nowhere Man…or at least be in it.  Hugh Jackman, one of the creative team for a new comic debuting this fall called, “Nowhere Man,” and Virgin Comics is holding a contest to put you in the funny papers. Read More...

Antique tractors are providing transportation from the parking lot to the 37th annual Madison-Bouckville Outdoor Antiques Show. Read More...

Idaho TV station finds prices of antiques falling. Really?  Read More...

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Easy-Bake Oven, Habro is holding the EASY-BAKE “Baker of the Year” contest for kid and their “sous chefs.”  Win a trip to Disney World to compete! Read More...

Raleigh, N.C., antiques dealer doing hard time for pyramid scheme and wire fraud. Read More...

Come on, admit it. You don’t really know much about samurai warrior armor. So why not watch a video and learn from an expert at Christie’s? Read More...

The Los Angeles Museum of Art received a $10M grant to purchase a collection of 3,500 prints, including the work of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. Read More...

Battle of the Titans: eBay’s biggest competition is Amazon.com. Read More...

The Cramer Comet, a car built post-WWII with a 12-cylinder Allison aircraft engine (that was also used in the P-51) and that produces 1,350 horsepower and goes 160 mph, is up for sale at a Monterey car auction. It’s expected to bring $250,000-$350,000. Great photo of the Comet. Read More...

Music fan seeks to digitize and save the oldie goldie vinyls. Read More...

Think you know all the super heroes? Think again! Bet you never heard of Squirrel Girl (or should it be spelled “Squirrel Girrel”?) who commands squirrels, or Normal Man, who has no powers, but lives in a world where everyone else does. Read More...

Family Gang Jailed in England for theft of £80 million in antiques and valuables. The family had been featured on a BBC television program about gypsy life and claimed the police made them scapegoats for crimes where they lived. Read More...

Missing garden gnome returns months later with photos of his travels to 12 countries. Read More...

World’s largest painting—4 miles long—is being cut up and sold for charity.
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2008 Talking Elmo doll to be hot again this year. He/it is due out Oct. 14.
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A good use for Beanie Babies—an 11 year old sends his collection to Iraq to be given to needy kids.
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Exhibit: “Thomas Hope: Regency Designer,” has a few imaginative examples of Egyptian Revival furniture that Hope designed about 1802 for the Egyptian Room in his house in London. Read More...

Cosmetic magnate Ronald O. Perelman settles suit over an $82,000 Art Deco table with lyre-shaped leg supports and said to have been designed and finished by two of France’s top masters, Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann and Jean Dunand.
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This clock repairman still fixes wooden works at age 90. Read More...

Posted August 8, 2008

Did Elvis have a long-lost and long-dead ancestor in ancient Rome? Kovel’s finds a likeness. Read More...

A disassembled ship—perhaps for sailing a pharaoh to the eternal world—was found in the Pyramid of Giza and seen by video for the first time in 4,500 year.
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Part of a slave burial ground is under the parking lot of Virginia Commonwealth University. Read More...

Hiram Bingham’s July 24, 1911 original photo of Machu Picchu after he was led there by locals and then introduced the world to this wonder. Read More...

The Oldest Perfume Bottle? A 900-year-old ampule of fragrance was discovered in Bulgaria. Read More...

Barbie Rules Over Bratz. Judge finds $1 billion Bratz created while owner worked for Mattel. Read More...

Oldest ever voice recording from 1860 discovered in France, perhaps 17 years older than Edison’s recording of “Mary had a little lamb.” Read More...

Spanish summer camp student find 3 Roman busts, one of Emperor Trajan. Read More...

142-year-old message in a bottle from Victorian times found in a church - sorry, it wasn’t a Kevin Costner-esque love note. Read More...

With the Star Wars® T.I.E. fighter model used in the original movie (the one that bumps into Darth Vader's fighter knocking him out of the trench) selling on eBay for $350,000 and the box for the Hans Solo action figure—just the box, no figure—selling for $7,500 on eBay, Hasbro's 58th STAR WARS QA Round-Up Report should be of interest. Read More...

World’s oldest joke dates back to 1900 BC—and I still don’t get it. Read More...

Want a Darth Vader or storm trooper-inspired golf bag for $500? Go to Japan.
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Artist Damien Hirst’s work, a diamond skull sell for a reported $100M.
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Puerto Rican police make an underwater archaeological discovery including a cannon and a sword during a police investigation.
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