| Furs for Food? Art for Affordable Housing? It's Trading Graces
BALTIMORE, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Furs for food? Popular art for affordable housing? Antique dolls for disaster relief services? It's exchanging common goods for the good of others at the Trading Graces online auction on eBay February 25 through March 22, 2007. Proceeds from the second annual auction will benefit Lutheran health and human service organizations nationwide. Through a quarter of a million staff and volunteers, LSA member organizations feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, care for the elderly, provide disaster response, strengthen families and create positive change in communities across America and the Caribbean. Trading Graces items will be auctioned online on e-Bay. Learn more at http://www.ebay.com/tradinggraces. Trading Graces items range across the spectrum of e-Bay categories and include many high-quality items.
EXCELLENT ANTIQUE AUCTION
Selling a Large Quantity of Excellent Antiques and Miliary Items. Uncataloged, No E-Bay Bidding.
FURNITURE: HORNER Library Table with Massive Griffin Legs; Hepplewhite Cherry Corner Cupboard; Hepplewhite Drop-front Cherry Desk; Pair of Brace back Windsor Side Chairs; Hepplewhite Blanket Chest and Early Bench - original green paint; Early Cupboards; Grain Painted Blanket Chest; Sawbuck Table; Set of Six Plank Seat Chairs with Original Decoration; Empire Game Table; VICTORIAN: Fancy Parlor Table with Barley Legs; Cast Iron Garden Furniture; Wire Planter; Two Door Bookcase; Curio Cabinet; Marble Top Parlor Tables; Seating Teak Chinese Marble Top Table; Also Bentwood High Chair; SINGERGS Swedish Cabinet Makers Workbench; Set of Four Rosewood Danish Arm Chairs, Table and Credenza.
GLASS/CHINA/POTTERY: Large Meissen Onion ( with orange trim) Dinner Set with Many Superb Service Pieces; Acid Cut Back Table Lamp Base; Steuben; Hawkes; Sinclair; Heisey; Tiffany 9" Prism; Lalique; Quimper; Oriental Blue & White with Wax Seals; Wedgewood; Staffordshire; Over Twelve Large Opaque Glass Eggs; ROSEVILLE Fresia Jardiniere on Stand; Weller; Van Briggle; Green Spongeware Umbrella Stand
CLOCKS: Ansonia CRYSTAL PALACE; Two Rosewood Arch Tops; New Haven & Cloisonne Case Crystal Regulators; German Regulator; French Figural; English Time Regulator; OG; Steeple and More.......
Auctions provide a chance to strike it rich
It contained a series of photographs of San Francisco city views taken in 1856. They were the first, or among the first, such photos ever taken. Seven years ago, a family in San Mateo County wanted to sell the album to help pay for property improvements. Johns, manager of Johns' Western Gallery in San Francisco, thought the album would fetch $15,000 to $25,000 at auction. He hadn't realized that the photographs, by George Robinson Fardon, were quite so rare and sought after. He put the album up for auction and after the dust cleared, the sale price had reached $180,000. "That's the kind of sale everyone dreams about," he said. "That's what they like about the 'Antiques Roadshow.' They're hoping their ship will come in with the sale of one item." The auction world was abuzz this week with the news of an auction on Super Bowl Sunday at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, Calif., where a painting owned by a Southern California woman was sold for $560,000, even though it was expected to go for a couple thousand dollars.
A store 'like Christmas morning'
Customers entering Linda's Cellar in Chaska have two competing urges -- to give owner Linda Heger a hug and to spot their future purchases.Often the urges merge into an embrace with arms wrapped around Heger and eyes wrapped around an achingly old-fashioned cupboard.Heger designed it that way. She opens her downtown Chaska doors just one weekend a month. And when she does, her customers, mostly women, are waiting outside.They arrive early to see the store, which looks nothing like it did last time it was open for business. Each month, Heger packs the place with an entirely new batch of antiques she and her buyers have found. "It's like Christmas morning," said Andrea Foeber of Savage. Years back, Heger set up shop in larger antique malls, stopping in weekly to add new items. She's also had a store that was open each weekend.
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