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Antiques Roadshow

My Antiques Roadshow Experience Part II

June 23, 2009

I left off with my Antiques Roadshow experience in the last post at the paintings table. Both Chris and I had lugged our final appraisal items through this, our longest line – long enough that it was broken in two, which was not apparent until you reached the “inner circle”.

Chris took a large “Russian-looking” painting [...]

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The Antiques Roadshow Experience

June 9, 2009

This past Saturday was the Antiques Roadshow event in Atlantic City, NJ and I invited a friend of mine whom I knew had some items that he had wanted appraised for quite some time. I requested a press pass so that I could have less restrictions on where I could take photographs so that I [...]

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Tweeting Antiques Roadshow Today

June 6, 2009

For those of you who use Twitter, I’ll be Tweeting the Antiques Roadshow experience today as it unfolds in Atlantic City. If you’re not following me yet, you can do so here. If you’re not a Roadshow fan, today is also the Cowan’s Spring Fine and Decorative Art sale; catalog below.
Open publication – [...]

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Antiques Roadshow Bound

June 2, 2009

You have to try everything once, right?
I put myself on the list for the Antiques Roadshow tickets this year and was one of those selected to receive the free tickets. It’s a lottery system, so there is never a guarantee that you will be one of the chosen few.
I enjoy watching the Roadshow occasionally [...]

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William “Richard” Wright Jr. (1947-2009)

March 3, 2009

The sad news of the passing of William “Richard” Wright on Sunday at the age of 62 made me pause for a moment and feel very upset that I won’t get a chance to hear him unleash his seemingly endless depth of knowledge on the Antique’s Roadshow viewers ever again. It doesn’t matter that his [...]

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