A super bowl that eluded patriots
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Now 300 years old, the Loring Bowl, as it is known, will be the star of the show at Sotheby’s auction of early American silver in New York on Jan. 22. It is, by far, the biggest bowl of its kind and period that Sotheby’s has ever handled. Now 300 years old, the Loring Bowl, as it is known, will be the star of the show at Sotheby’s auction of early American silver in New York on Jan. 22. It is, by far, the biggest bowl of its kind and period that Sotheby’s has ever handled. (Southeby's) Fearing for his... |
NC woman's jade gets record 'Roadshow' appraisal
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| RALEIGH, N.C. -- Jinx Taylor always thought her father had impeccable taste. Now she knows it's true. Four pieces of jade that her father bought in the 1930s and '40s at No. 10 Jade St. in Beijing were valued last month at more than $1 million on PBS' "Antiques Roadshow" while the program was in Raleigh, a record appraisal for the show. They're so valuable, in fact, that Taylor can't afford the insurance on the keepsakes and plans to sell them. "I adored my father," Taylor, who lives along North Carolina's coast, said in a recent phone interview. "He was... |
Is Rare Clock Adolf Hitler's Timepiece?
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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A gilded bronze clock which could have ticked away the final hours of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime has resurfaced in a new antiques shop in Dereham. The elaborate timepiece, believed to be a British soldier's prized memento of victory in the Second World War, is one of many historical collectables brought to the shop opened by Breckland councillor and former Dereham mayor Michael Fanthorpe. Mr Fanthorpe said the clock belonged to a soldier despatched to the dictator's bunker after the fall of Berlin in 1945, whose wife refused to display it in her home and chose to sell it after...
Cottingley Fairies on Antiques Roadshow
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| This evening's Antiques Roadshow (from Belfast) had some interesting fortean-tinged items. Unsurprisingly, there were various pieces of Titanic memorabilia but the final segment had the daughter and granddaughter of Frances Griffiths showing the famous Cottingley fairy photographs and a camera given to Griffiths by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Roadshow expert, Paul Atterbury. You can watch the episode in full on the BBC iPlayer for the next seven days.A few things worth noting from the programme:Frances only admitted that the photographs (bar one) were fakes after she had discovered her cousin Elsie had spoken out about them (Elsie had come... |
Fresno collectors uncover rare 1869 baseball card
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay. She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired the picture. "Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati," the card read, under a sepia tone photo of 10 men with their socks pulled up to their knees. The card itself was dirty and wrinkled in a few places. [SNIP] The card is actually 139 years old. It, and a handful of others like it, are considered the first baseball cards. This... |
Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in Britain
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| The existence of a brain where no other soft tissues have survived is extremely rare, according to Sonia O'Connor, an archaeological researcher at the University of Bradford in northern England who helped authenticate the discovery. "This brain is particularly exciting because it is very well preserved, even though it is the oldest recorded find of this type in the U.K., and one of the earliest worldwide," she said. The old brain is unlikely to yield new neurological insights because human brains aren't thought to have changed much over the past 2,000 years, according to Chris Gosden, a professor of archaeology... |
Rare Iraqi Jewish books 'surface in Israel'
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Some 300 rare and valuable books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. The books include a 1487 commentary on the biblical Book of Job and another volume of biblical prophets printed in Venice in 1617, the Haaretz daily said. The volumes are part of a massive collection of books confiscated by the secret police of the executed Iraqi dictator and stored in security installations in the Iraqi capital until the US-led invasion of 2003. Many volumes were damaged during the bombing of government buildings in... |
Can Anyone Identify the Military Uniform?
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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Feds Say Man With $12 Million In Bogus Checks Offers Help With Al Qaida (Shishani - New Details)
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| DETROIT - A man charged with smuggling dlrs 12 million in bogus cashiers checks into the United States told agents the man named on the checks may belong to al-Qaida, authorities said Wednesday. Omar Shishani, 47, also told investigators during an interview that "if you want to know about terrorism, I can help you with that," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Straus said during a hearing. Defense attorney Nabih Ayad denied his client ever made such statements. Shishani, who was born in Jordan but is of Chechen descent, was arrested last week after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a flight... |
A y Porcelain collectors out there? Need help to ID these!
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| OK folks, need some help. I have scoured the net and have yet to find documentation on what these are or a history on their worth.Anybody??? |
Ads from 1988 Radio Shack: Tandy 4000, 32-Bit Technology 16 MHz only $2599 (w/pic)
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| *Monitor not included |
Eyes on the future, past
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Col. Ra'ad, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division Iraqi Army commander, leads American Soldiers through one of the few excavated areas in the Hatra ruins July 14. Ra'ad, whose brother-in-law work on the site in the 1970s, gave his endorsement to a coalition iniative to build a protective fence around the 2,000-year-old site to keep out looters. Story and photo by Sgt. Rachel Brune101st Sustainment Brigade,101st Airborne Division AL HADR -- Even as he is mired in the present concerns of coordinating logistics for Q-West Base Complex, Capt. Jesse Ballenger, 153rd Field Artillery Brigade, has one eye on the future,... |
Arkansas - Slave paraphernalia ballot item can be resubmitted, Beebe says
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Attorney General Mike Beebe says a proposed constitutional amendment to ban the sale of slave paraphernalia can be resubmitted for his review. Beebe rejected the proposal Thursday, saying it did not include a copy of the full measure for his review. He also noted several problems with the proposal including that it does not clearly define slave paraphernalia or slave items. But Beebe told Marquitta J. Corbin of Conway that she can submit the proposal again. Corbin wants to get the measure on the November ballot but the attorney general must first review the proposal... |
Hunt treasure in dumpsters, thrift stores
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Before I could write my column this week, I had to take an hour off to watch "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS, locally WHA. It feeds my fantasy of finding or buying an item and have it turn out to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The show always has a few people who either bought an item at a yard sale for a dollar or two or found it. For example, Monday's show featured a man who went dumpster diving and found a rare print by John Turnbull of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was worth... |
Iran plans to weave world's largest carpet
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is seeking to revive its carpet industry by weaving the world's biggest rug, weighing in at 35 tonnes. The mammoth rug from the spiritual homeland of Persian carpets will cover almost 6,000 square metres and will fetch some $8.2 million, its makers told Reuters on Saturday. "We will have two working shifts of 1,000 weavers working for 14 months non-stop to deliver the carpet on time," said Karam Reza Haseli, a deputy manager at the state-supported Iranian carpet company. Work is due to start in three months. The carpet has been ordered by the Sheikh Zayed... |
Rare Jewish artifacts remain in soggy limbo
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| WASHINGTON - A damaged Torah, a centuries-old Bible and other rare documents important to Iraq's few remaining Jews were rescued from a flooded cellar in Baghdad, only to remain in limbo here. Their restoration, like so much else these days, awaits the emergence of a new Iraq. Historians at the National Archives, which preserves such priceless artifacts as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, are examining the treasure trove of materials found in the basement of the headquarters for Saddam Hussein's secret police. The materials are in moderate to poor condition - they remained wet for several weeks after being... |
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAY PORTLAND (1-of-a-kind accetate found at yard sale)
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| How an Original Velvet Underground Acetate Wound Up in Portland (And Could Be the Most Expensive Record in the World!) Yard sales are like junior high dances. You show up full of anticipation, bump into a lot of people, and then leave disappointed. But in both cases, an ineffable sense of possibility spawns return, over and over. Maybe this time I'll slow dance with Tiffany Pfeiffer. Maybe this time I'll find a first edition of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Maybe my life will change within the hour. And so earlier this year, with flickering expectation, Warren Hill... |
Madeleine Albright's father 'took war loot to America'
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| London March 28, 1999 UNITED STATES Albright's father 'took war loot to America'by Matthew Campbell, Washington A WEALTHY Austrian family is threatening legal action against Madeleine Albright, the American secretary of state, in an acrimonious row over a priceless collection of paintings and antiques that has its roots in the chaotic aftermath of the second world war. In a hitherto unpublicised dispute, descendants of Karl Nebrich, an Austrian industrialist, claim that Albright's father, Josef Korbel, a former Czech foreign ministry official who was Jewish, stole millions of dollars' worth of art and furniture from them, then fled with it... |
Antiques Dealer Wants Bill of Rights Back
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| Antiques Dealer Wants Bill of Rights Back Connecticut Antiques Dealer Will Fight to Reclaim Copy of Bill of Rights RALEIGH, N.C. March 29 — A Connecticut antiques dealer will fight to recover a document seized from him that North Carolina claims is its long-lost copy of the Bill of Rights, his attorney said Friday. Hugh Stevens, attorney for Wayne Pratt, also disputed federal and state authorities' contention that the document is the one stolen from the North Carolina statehouse during the Civil War. "Whatever the document is, and wherever it has been, its authenticity and ownership have yet to be... |
To Race or not to Race II
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| ....my front tire is sitting on the chalk line, and my eyes are riveted on the face of the flag man. He rolls up the flag, turns to look at us, and at once my world, my existence, is only this man. I'm electric in my total absorption of the flag man and there is nothing else -- the motorcycle and I are fused, an explosive device awaiting its trigger. I'm unconscious to all my senses except sight. Eye contact, sudden release....I regain consciousness about 50 feet from the starting line, now completely focused on the bike's performance...For the full... |
CIVIL WAR SCAM
Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:25:38 AM
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| PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ An antiques dealer was sentenced to a year in a halfway house Thursday and ordered to repay $830,000 for staging phony appraisals on the PBS series ``Antiques Roadshow'' and defrauding Civil War collectors. Russell Pritchard III, 39, pleaded guilty to making the bogus TV appraisals. He also admitted defrauding artifact owners by giving them low appraisals on items, then reselling them at much higher prices and pocketing the profit. According to prosecutors, Pritchard made between $800,000 and $1.5 million on the fraudulent transactions. He could have gotten up to 135 years in prison and more than $5.2... |
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