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AntiquesQ&A: March 2015
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Monday, March 30, 2015. Beauty in the Glass. I have always loved paperweights. I don’t mean the kind with advertising on them but the ones with floral designs that seem embedded in them. I started buying them here and there, but I want to give some direction to my collection. How and when did these beauties originate? And can you give me some suggestions on building a collection? So what got them into collecting paperweights? Multiple floral) effects, in which they organized the ends of the pieces of scr...
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AntiquesQ&A: April 2015
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Monday, April 27, 2015. The Bluebird of Happiness. Some time ago, I purchased six dinner plates, each with a large bluebird design on it, from a church sale. I love the bold design on these plates and have yet to see any others like them. On the back is the mark of the Buffalo Pottery. I thought they only made restaurant china. What can you tell me about my plates. Homer Laughlin usually used a design showing two or three chubby bluebirds surrounded by differing shades of pink flowering apple blossom bra...
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AntiquesQ&A: August 2014
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Monday, August 25, 2014. My mother has a beautiful silver bracelet that my dad gave to her on their tenth wedding anniversary. The letters GJ are inscribed on the inside. I’ve always admired this bracelet and hope that one day it will be mine. Can you tell me who made this bracelet and perhaps something about it. Jensen's training in metalsmithing along with his education in the fine arts allowed him to combine the two disciplines and revive the tradition of the artist craftsman. Soon, the beauty and...
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AntiquesQ&A: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. The Essence of Comfort. When I was a kid, I remember sitting on my grandfather’s lap in a very comfortable chair. It was designed like a big glove and swiveled on a chrome base with four legs. I don’t know what it was called, but I remember him referring to it as Danish modern. Can you tell me anything about this type of chair? Using teak, which was plentiful in Denmark, the Danish Modern style began to emerge in the 1920s and soon gained popularity with cabinetmakers in Copenh...
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AntiquesQ&A: Determing Value
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Monday, May 4, 2015. This is the 200th post of this blog. Throughout history, people had as much junk as we have today. But they didn’t value things in quite the same way as we do today. For ordinary people, old furniture was just old furniture. Old dishes were often mismatched. Let’s face it, they didn’t have “Antiques Roadshow” to make them think that just about everything was valuable. Think in terms of different levels of production. At the bottom are mass-produced items made of ordinary and usua...
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A Writer's Life: Today’s Rollercoaster of Freelancing
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The trials and tribulations—and joys—of freelance writing. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Today’s Rollercoaster of Freelancing. Remember the days when rollercoasters were the most fun ride in an amusement park. The cars crept slowly up the incline, seemed to hesitate for a moment, then gravity took hold and they plunged to the depths, riders screaming all the way. In today’s freelance writing environment, writers experience higher highs and lower lows. When they fall, they fall hard. So much today ...For instanc...
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A Writer's Life: March 2014
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The trials and tribulations—and joys—of freelance writing. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Say Yes to Opportunity. As a writer you have to recognize when opportunity comes a knocking. And to take advantage of publishing opportunities, you have to be prepared. You might feel an impulse to do something new. While routine is a good thing, it can lead to complacency. Trying a new sport, a new route for your daily walk, even reading a new type of book will alter your brain patterns enough to make you think ...Too m...
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A Writer's Life: May 2014
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The trials and tribulations—and joys—of freelance writing. Friday, May 30, 2014. It’s hard to keep up the creative energy that all writers need to succeed. All writers are prone to intellectual laziness from time to time. Coming up with totally original, totally innovative ideas is exhausting. So many writers, once they’ve achieved success with a particular concept or genre, tend to repeat it. Nothing unless you make it so. Many authors fall into this same rut. It’s really not all their fault&#...The Fre...
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A Writer's Life: January 2014
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The trials and tribulations—and joys—of freelance writing. Saturday, January 25, 2014. In the beginning, many writers have trouble distinguishing the idea of being a writer with the writing, itself. For some reason, perhaps the notoriety that a few writers achieve because of things like the New York Times Best Seller's List, many beginners think that’s all there is to it—write a book and you’re instantly propelled into the spotlight. Did someone encourage you along the way? All of the above reasons are g...