Persian rugs, antique rugs and decorative rugs have graced our showroom for...
Most of our Oriental rugs and Persian rugs online date between mid 19th and early 20th century. The antique rugs woven during this era were individually commissioned, expressing the inspired vision of...
View ArticleWondering about original Antique Restoration Hardware. http://vialin.com Press
Are Hardware Restorers difficult to find. Wondering about Hardware Restoration: Door knobs, furniture hardware, architectural, Steamer trunks, Victrola Phonographs and Furniture. Find Robinson Antiques...
View ArticleMeet Artist Natalia Lialina. Spiritual Painting featuring Ochun and Ayemaya....
Born in Bryansk, Russia, daughter of Russian painter Vladimir Lialin. She had dedicated to the study of the Arts, Antiques and spiritual expressions. Motivated to express it on canvas following the...
View ArticleDolls: History and Glossary of Doll Terms. Details on how to buy the antique...
Dolls have been a part of our lives since prehistoric times. Used to depict religious figures or used as playthings, early dolls were probably made from primitive materials such as clay, fur, or wood....
View ArticleLIGHTING THROUGH THE AGES http://vialin.com Press
70,000 BC Primitive lights using hollow stones with moss or grass, animal fat as fuel 7,000 BC Early Greek pottery lamps with cloth wick, rendered fat or oil as fuel All ages Tallow candles and flaming...
View ArticleToday in History September 15 Rosh Hashanah, 5765 begins at sunset...
A day like today in History September 15: Rosh Hashanah, 5765 begins at sunset 1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed independence from Spain 1916 - Tanks, the...
View ArticleThis Sunday's auction includes some of the finest vintage Bohemian, French,...
It also includes a very large selection of rare, scarce, and beautiful antique Staffordshire, and English Pottery. We have many fabulous items this week; a FRENCH CRANBERRY BRONZE CASED PERFUME, LARGE...
View ArticleAntique Price Guides. First lets talk about how price guides come up with the...
There are three ways prices get into guide books: Prices are taken from auction results. Guide prices are observed at shows, stores, and within advertisements. Prices are gathered by surveying dealers....
View ArticleHeritage Bookshop - The First Year. by Louis Weinstein http://vialin.com Press
I was seventeen and working for Deutsch and Shea Advertising Agency in New York. It was April 5, 1963. The news of my father's death in Gary, Indiana the day before wasn't too painful, for I had hardly...
View ArticleThe hat of JOAN OF ARC http://vialin.com Press
This hairstyle of Joan D'Arc was preserved until 1792, by Oratoriens of Orleans. It was, explained by the chronicler, made of gray felt with large edges but raised in the front and the edge attached by...
View ArticleAntiques, old stuff, a bit of history, or just junk. FAQs on antiques and...
Yes, some people may call it junk, but to millions of hungry antique shoppers in the world, this junk could be more precious than a new car. Antique malls and shops are popping up faster than fast food...
View ArticleEdgar Hilaire Germain de Gas or EDGAR DEGAS, print art work....
Degas' innovative composition, influenced by the Japanese woodblock prints called Ukiyo-e and photography, his skillful drawing, and perceptive analysis of movement made him one of the masters of...
View ArticleIn its pure form, Glass is a transparent, relatively strong, hard-wearing,...
These desirable properties lead to the very many uses of glass. Can be made in several layers, engraved, enameled, gilded, or painted. Alongside the preference for items decorated in the style of the...
View ArticleThe Grandfather clock song. http://vialin.com Press
The lyrics go as followed... My grandfather's clock was to large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a...
View ArticleByzantium: The Lost Empire. http://vialin.com Press
Relive the past in this extraordinary look at the empire that followed Greece and Rome. For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world, the origin of great literature,...
View ArticleA rough and ready guide to dating English drinking glasses from the 19th...
This guide is an aid to dating wine and other drinking glasses made in England during the 19th Century. It covers some of the basic concepts to consider when trying to identify the age of a glass and...
View ArticleMeet Patrick JEAN, Photographer. COLLECTIBLE PHOTOGRAPHY http://vialin.com...
What you are going to discover on these pages has never been published on any support in the world. It is the work of a life dedicated to the understanding of humanity in its entirety. It is a man's...
View ArticleWould you like to take a free live art class this weekend? http://vialin.com...
That's right! A 4 hour class all for free. You will see how our state of the art virtual classroom works and best of all, the live web cam. Please follow the instructions below to take your free...
View ArticleSelected paintings by Artist Natalia Lialina. http://vialin.com Press
"El Frutero" from a private collection, "Bodegon Tropical" Original Oil and Acrilic on Canvas, wood frame 16"X 20" inches, Price: $650 Free shipping within continental USA. Gallery San Cristobal Fine...
View ArticleDo you have an Old Steamer trunk sitting in your attic, basement, or storage...
Old trunks are like time capsules and hold so much history inside of them. When restored they make great accent pieces and are very useful for storage of heirlooms, quilts, etc. Flat top trunks can be...
View ArticleAlmost Abstract Painting Style of Georgia O'Keeffe http://vialin.com Press
Georgia O'Keefe, was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. She studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students' League in New York City. Her landscapes and...
View ArticleArticles by Leigh and Leslie Keno, authors of Hidden Treasures: Searching for...
- Windsor Chairs: Simple and sturdy, these American classics still look right at home today. Articles by Leigh and Leslie Keno appear regularly in every issue of This Old House magazine under Find! On...
View ArticleANTIQUES COLLECTIBLE AND FINE ARTS, WHERE THE COLLECTORS AND ARTISTS MEET....
Antiques and Collectibles - Promoting discussion about Antiques and Collectibles fake-real, marks, appraisals. Appraisals and Questions - Ask your questions about your treasures, Found something...
View ArticleDecember 19, 1974 The first personal computer, Altair 8800, went on sale....
1974 - The first personal computer, Altair 8800, went on sale. The MITS Altair 8800 is a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU. Sold as a kit through Popular Electronics...
View ArticleDecember 26 Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new element....
1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie announced the existence of a new element, later to be named radium. Radium (Latin radius, ray) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre in 1898 in...
View ArticleJanuary 2 Luis Munoz Marin became the first democratically elected Governor...
1949 - Luis Munoz Marin became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. Luis Munoz Marin (February 18, 1898 - April 30, 1980) was a poet, journalist and politician. He was the first...
View ArticleJanuary 9: The most famous image of Edgar Allan Poe was a daguerreotype....
The most famous image of Edgar Allan Poe was a daguerreotype taken in 1848 shortly before his death. The daguerreotype was a positive-only process allowing no reproduction of the picture. The...
View ArticleJanuary 24: A Walk Through Baku National Carpet Museum. http://vialin.com Press
While touring Baku, you are likely to discover that many of its museums are found in buildings that were constructed for entirely different purposes. Take the former Lenin museum, for instance. As with...
View ArticleFebruary 07: Oriental Rug Source of Azerbaijan. http://vialin.com Press
Carpet Weaving Regions of Azerbaijan, Carpet Weaving Provinces (map), Get acquainted with Great Culture of Azerbaijan, Your Guide to Oriental Rugs, Carpet News and Articles (in Azeri Turkish). Feb 07...
View ArticleFebruary 19: Pop Culture and Chrome. http://vialin.com Press
Today, Mike Marino is taking us to the pop art culture of the 50s. Machine machismo: '32 Fords and Dodge Chargers and rock 'n roll: The Chrome-magnon Decade. Feb 19 2005 7:48 GMT
View ArticleFebruary 27: Meet the Show Room of Artist Geoffrey Williams and feel the hot...
Meet Artist Geoffrey Williams from Berkeley, California -My art is window to another place, another time, another soul, hanging right in your living room. You can feel the hot sand in your feet, and...
View ArticleMarch 07: Scandinavian antique heaven. Planning a Antique trip this summer......
We are a small company just me and my colleauge John Henriksen, we started 1999. Our mission is to guide Antique dealers, Interior designers and major private collectors to meet fine Scandianvian...
View ArticleMarch 15: DIARY OF A CRITIC: Art Reviews from Around New York by John Haber...
I am not an art critic. Cross my heart. At least, I can never admit it without bending the truth and ducking. People need critics, to know where to go and where not to go on a Saturday afternoon and...
View ArticleMarch 22: Tumba la Milagrosa en el Cementerio de Cristobal Colon. SPANISH...
El Milagro: Amelia Goire fue sepultada con su hija en su vientre. Al abrir el sepulcro tiempo despues para enterrar al suegro de la finada esta se encontro abrazada a su hija... Mar 22 2005 19:41 GMT
View ArticleApril 03: The Museum Guide http://vialin.com Press
Finest Museums, from American Museum of the Moving Image, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine ... Apr 03 2005 19:11 GMT
View ArticleApril 20: The Festival of the San Sebastian street at the Old San Juan....
The Saint Sebastian celebration host the major festival at the Old San Juan streets, with the largest reunion of artists, painters and Folk Art of Puerto Rico ... Apr 20 2005 02:11 GMT
View ArticleApril 30: Fakir khana Museum and emuseum Pakistan gems and stones, portraits...
Relics of Islam including the relics of the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H). Located near kucha Pehalwanan in Bazar Hakiman, off Bhatti gate, one of the 13 gates which once pierced the 30 feet high...
View ArticleMay 08: In the history of clocks and time-keeping.. http://vialin.com Press
one of the earliest clocks was driven by water; the Roman -horologium-. This term was later applied to the earliest mechanical clocks. The first mechanical clocks only indicated time by sounding a bell...
View ArticleJune 12: BRONCES: Una tecnica que sigue igual desde la antiguedad..SPANISH...
Bronces a la cera perdida, es la mas noble y costosa de todas las tecnicas de fundicion. Primero se modela la pieza original de barro, cera o marmol... June 12 2005 12:10 GMT
View ArticleJuly 01: What is an Icon. http://vialin.com Press
A window to Heaven... a religious picture painted on a board... -frozen- medieval art... a door to our own spiritual universe... a portrait of a saint...a piece of Heaven on Earth... a multi...
View ArticleJuly 23: The Virtual Absinthe Museum. http://vialin.com Press
The site includes dozens of documents translated for the first time from the French - a list of those available in PDF format. There are also special case studies on for instance the effects of...
View ArticleAugust 06: Brief history of Capodimone, the ancient Jade, Cloisonne......
The guide include: Capodimonte porcelain, is the finest and most perfect grade of Italian artistic pottery. Ancient Jade, are extremely hard stones -6.5 to 7.0-. They were shaped and carved using ropes...
View ArticleOctober 09: The John Drury Collection of A.C. Gilbert Erector Sets and Mysto...
This auction will feature hundreds of Erector sets, Mysto Magic sets and other Gilbert This auction will feature hundreds of Erector sets, Mysto Magic sets and other Gilbert toys. Many of these items...
View ArticleOctober 29: Would you like to take a free live art lesson with a professional...
You can now learn how to paint beautiful art online with a professional artist and instructor right from your desktop October 29 2005 14:15 GMT
View ArticleJanuary 22: George Washington portrait in private hand sold $21.3 at Christie...
The only portrait in private hands painted by Paele between 1779 and 1781 reached more than double expected: $10 million and was purchased by art dealer Prickett, C.L. The portrait is part of a...
View ArticleApril 07: Rogallery.com will conduct a 400+ lot sale of the contents of...
Saturday, April 8th, 2006 at 1:00 PM Eastern, Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Fine Furniture. 47-15 36th Street, Long Island City, New York 11101 Phone 1-800-888-1063 April 07 2006 02:15 GMT
View ArticleAugust 03: iGavel (www.igavel.com) based in New York, NY The Long Island...
Featured auction through Roland Antiques with more than 400 lots featuring artists C. Guys, Forain, Dufy, Donati, Henninger, Berge, Vernard, Jean, Cocteau, Lamotte and Goldberg. The online event runs...
View ArticleModel Train Show. Enjoy Model and Toy Trains, Railroadania, Die Cast, Repair...
The Great Lehigh Valley Train Meet, Merchants Square Mall, 1901 S. 12th Street,Allentown, PA 18103. Come enjoy over 10,000 square feet of Model and Toy Trains, Railroadania, Die Cast, Repair Parts...
View ArticleNortheast Georgia Arts Tour, June 2008... http://vialin.com Press
Art and life go together like cake and ice cream here in Northeast Georgia, and the week of June 21 through June 29, White, Habersham, Stephens, and Rabun counties will be serving up double dips of...
View ArticleFun Fair of Fine Antiques the happiest show on Earth... http://vialin.com Press
The world s largest indoor antique festival will be staged on the weekend of October 9th and 10th of 2010 at the Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pa. 14 miles west of center city, near the PA Turnpike...
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