How to Eliminate Smoke Smell From Your eBay Sales or Purchases. Having bought smoky items more times than I care to acknowledge, I decided to write a guide for handling this problem. Here are a few tried and...
This guide will give you some basic hints on how to clean art, antiques, collectibles and antiquities. I worked as an art restoration apprentice for my grandfather, Marcel Gibrat for three years. Mr. Gibrat...
I've prepared this guide to help you make informed decisions when contemplating the purchase of an antique carousel animal. As with most popular items, carousel figures are often reproduced, synthetically aged...
This guide will provide several options for selling your dolls, depending on how quickly you want to sell them and for how much money you're hoping to get for them. How much are my dolls worth? Finding your...
Drift Through Chinatown Don't plan to visit Chinatown. Just head in the general direction of Beretania and River streets and let it come to you. Don't bother to resist its tendency to overwhelm. Surrender to...
1. Don't assume you have to buy name brands. Antique furniture that has been well crafted and held up over time can be a great deal when you consider the cost per year value of having an item that could last...
Antique Furniture Tips for Scratches, Touch-Up, Restoring the Finish to your newly acquired antique or sprucing up some piece's you have and didn't know how to fix.This is the Guide for you. Also includes...
No one intentionally ruins an antique, right? But lots of people do make costly mistakes caring for antiques every day simply because they don't know any better. Read on for valuable information to keep you...
Restoration - To do or not to do ? Somewhere is the back of a drawer is a cherished object that grandmother had on her shelf. It was broken at a family gathering or accidently dropped. The pieces were...
Just a few handy reminders for those who, like me, enjoy making old things new again. (Philosophy is thrown in for free...) #1 - When dismantling an object, use a large table and arrange the peices in the...