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unusual facts about antiques



Adam McDonald

McDonald's area of expertise is 20th century and industrial antiques, and his work has been reviewed on the ABC television program Auction Room.

Albert L. Hopkins

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire

In order to meet this, the Duke had to sell off many art objects and antiques, including several Rembrandts, Van Dycks and Raffaello Santis, as well as thousands of acres of land.

Art press

In her first editorial, Catherine Millet (co-founder with the art dealer Daniel Templon, and editor-in-chief) explained why she refused a journalistic approach, too much relying on anecdote; that she no more wanted an avant-garde review that erased art history than she wanted a review on the history of art longing for antiques.

Audrey Atterbury

She married Rowley Atterbury in 1943, and had one child, Paul Atterbury, who went on to become an antiques expert and a regular on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi

Much of his work was in restoring antique Roman sculptures, making casts, copies, and fakes of antiques, fields in which he was pre-eminent and which brought him into contact with all the virtuosi: he was a close friend of and informant for Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

The inspiration to write the song was a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal, Rochdale, that Lennon purchased in an antique shop on 31 January 1967, while filming the promotional video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Sevenoaks, Kent.

Betty Huntley-Wright

They also ran a small antiques business in London, trading at various times in the West End, Portobello Road and Chelsea.

Cathy Scott

She is the granddaughter of California artist Esther Rose and Frank Rose (a sports writer at the Two Harbors, Minnesota, newspaper in the 1920s), the niece of the late Russian Orthodox Hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose, sister of scientist and author Dr. J. Michael Scott, and twin sister of antiques expert Cordelia Mendoza.

Cecil W. Stoughton

He died in Merritt Island, Florida, just nine months after his appearance on Antiques Roadshow describing his iconic photograph, which was done as part of the LBJ Centennial.

Cirencester House

The house contains portraits by Lawrence, Gainsborough, Romney, Lely, Reynolds, Hoppner, Kneller and many others, and a set of giant marble columns carrying busts, which are genuine antiques, collected in Italy by Lord Apsley, the son of the third earl, at the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1814.

Dakhinpat Satra

Dakshinpat Xatra is a treasure house of dances contributed by Shri Sankardeva such as the Borgeet, Matiakhara, Jumora, Chali, Noyua, Nande Vringee, Sutradhar, Ozapali, Apsara, Satria Krishna and Dasavater among others while it is also a storehouse of antiques of cultural importance and an advanced centre for the performing arts.

Duanfang

Duanfang was a well-known collector of antiques, and maintained a good relationship with Paul Pelliot and others.

Edward Lamson Henry

Henry acquired an extensive collection of antiques, old photos, and assorted Americana, from which he researched his paintings.

Femme nue couchée

It surfaced again in 2000 and 2003, when it was offered for sale first to the Museum of Fine Arts and then to the Commission for Art Recovery (CAR) by a Slovak man claiming to be an antiques dealer, but who appeared to his interlocutors to be involved with the Slovak organised crime scene.

Frederick Cardozo

Cardozo's mother, Simone, was the daughter of Henry Daniell, who ran a china and antiques business in Wigmore Street, London; through his trade interests he had helped to organise the Wallace Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Collection.

French ironclad Magenta

At the time of the accident, Magenta had a cargo of Carthaginian antiques, notably 2080 punic stelae (Tophet, 2nd century BC) and a marble statue of Vibia Sabina (Thasos, c. 127-128 AD), found in 1874 by the Pricot de Sainte-Marie mission.

Grays Antique Centre

Between two sections of the antiques market is Sumarria Lunn Gallery, a contemporary art gallery established in 2009 by two curators in their twenties.

Helaine Fendelman

In 1994, Fendelman created Helaine Fendelman & Associates, a Fine Arts, antiques, and appraisal firm, which is located in the in the Gramercy Park section of New York City.

Homer Eaton Keyes

Homer Eaton Keyes (1875 - October 8, 1938), was an author and professor at Dartmouth College, and the founder and editor of the magazine Antiques.

House Gift

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is always one of the designers, along with an antiques expert and another female designer, usually Danielle Proud.

Hugh Scully

Scully was chosen in 1981 to present Antiques Roadshow along with Arthur Negus.

Jeremy Swift

In 2009 he played the lead in the true story of Sean Greenhalgh in The Antiques' Rogue Show for BBC2 with Liz Smith and Peter Vaughn, The Deacon in a film adaptation of Anton Checkhov's short story The Duel and featured in Canoe Man, a 2010 TV drama based on the John Darwin disappearance case.

Jesús Reyes Ferreira

He was a collector and seller of antiques and art, especially colonial art and Mexican handcrafts and folk art.

John Bly

He attended Berkhamsted School and his career began with Sotheby's, where he worked for four years before joining his family business in Tring (John Bly Antiques, started by John Bly's great grandfather).

John Kells Ingram

Ingram also wrote papers on Mexican antiques and contributed papers to mathematical societies on differential calculus and geometrical analysis.

Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios

Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios is a live album by English band Strawbs recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 11 July 1970.

Kingston Lacy

He travelled extensively to the Middle East and the Orient, collecting the largest individual collection of Egyptian antiques in the world.

La bonne année

Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, they find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group.

La fille aux cheveux de lin

Its text is the poem La fille aux cheveux de lin No. 4 of the Chansons écossaises (Scottish songs) from Charles Leconte de Lisle's Poemes antiques (Ancient poems), published by Alphonse Lemerre in Paris, 1874.

Lara Spencer

She also hosted Antiques Roadshow on PBS for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, as well as Antiques Roadshow FYI and also has a segment airing semi-regularly on Rachael Ray titled "The Dish".

Lauren Harries

In childhood Harries was known as James, a purported "child prodigy" in the field of antiques, appearing on numerous television shows including Wogan.

Mark D

A few years after the Fat Tulips broke up in the mid-1990s, he started a dealership in art and antiques with his wife, Tully, focusing on work from the 1960s and 1970s, including John Piper, Stig Lindberg, Lucienne Day and John Clappison.

Mark Stacey

He has made regular appearances as an antiques expert on the BBC programmes Bargain Hunt, Flog It!, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and Antiques Road Trip.

Michał Tyszkiewicz

Michał Tyszkiewicz (1828–1897) was a Polish collector of antiques and amateur Egyptologist, member of the once powerful Tyszkiewicz noble family.

Mihály Viczay

At first, he studied law, but very interested in archeology, so he retired to Hédervár, where antiques and had already accumulated a collection of coins.

National Road Yard Sale

Started in 2003 by Patricia McDaniel, the owner of The Old Storefront Antiques on Route 40 in Dublin, Indiana, the National Road Yard Sale offers a unique opportunity to not only travel down a road that is over 200 years old, but also to get a taste of the unique communities along the way.

Neville Chesters

In 1975, he moved to Woburn, Bedfordshire and started a successful antiques renovation company known as Yesterdays Pine, specializing in antique and reproduction pine furniture and "correctabilia".

Prince Matchabelli

In New York City he and his wife, Princess Norina Matchabelli (an actress whose stage name was Maria Carmi), opened a small antiques shop, Le Rouge et le Noir, at 545 Madison Avenue.

Rachel Ellenstein

Later in life, she became his friend, confidante and business partner in Connor's antiques store in New York.

Red climbing mouse

It is named after explorer and antiques dealer, Arthur Vernay, who sponsored the expedition during which the animal was first discovered.

Reydon

Geoffrey Munn OBE, Presenter on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, local historian and author of Southwold - an Earthly Paradise.

Sheila Stuart

She began her career as a journalist, writing for Scottish Field and The People's Friend, although during this period she also wrote a few books about antiques.

Srirasm

In October 2012, the Princess made news headlines when she and her entourage bought large amounts of antiques in a daylong shopping session at Battlesbridge, Essex.

Theresa Fairbanks Harris

Harris is the daughter of the American artist and expert of American arts and antiques, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, and the granddaughter of the American sculptor, Avard Fairbanks.

Tony Little

Little is an avid collector of antiques, classic cars, and obscure species of livestock; he owns eight of the latter.

Wartski

Geoffrey Munn is the present managing director of Wartski and is a well known face on the BBC Antiques Roadshow; He is the author of several books on jewellery and is a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries.

Wish You Well

The video clip starts with Fanning sitting adjacent to antiques, one including a gramophone.


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