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WE'RE GOING TO THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW!
Can't wait ~ and having a dickens of a time deciding what to take! Too many treasures!
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Just as underclothes are shielded from public view, the evolution of men's most intimate apparel is shrouded in secrecy. But the story of men's underwear is about more …
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Design
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
“When I got this sword, it was completely covered in blood rust.” Sword maker Francis Boyd is showing me yet another weapon pulled from yet another …
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'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Have you heard? There’s a new swell in town named Gatsby, and he’s bringing flapper flair back into fashion. Baz Luhrmann’s latest cinematic spectacle—his take on “Th…
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Collectibles
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Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Long before Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz swaggered into the spotlight with "American Pickers," writer Maureen Stanton …
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Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
The memes are endless—Grumpy Cat, Nyan Cat, Keyboard Cat, Maru, and all the Lolcats. Last year even witnessed the first ever Internet Cat Video Fe…
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Ticket StubsTicket stubs cut across a wide variety of collecting interests. They are so…
Advertising TinsThe widespread practice of packing food in tin cans and containers was a di…
Uh... I guess, Jason, but the wifey & I aren't really morning people and we live over an hour away. Should have opted for the noon admit. (sigh)
Do they give you the bum's rush once you have shown your stuff or can you linger?
Thanks for that great discription, Jason!
Did they have the 'Feedback Booth' there ~ how was that handled? Could everyone do it or was there an 'audition'?
Was it real regimented? Do you have to hold your place in those lines, or could you wander & talk to the other folks in the line to see what they had?
Assuming you weren't picked for filming with an appraiser, did you see anyone who was? Did it take long to get them thru that process? Do they do make-up and the whole magilla?
Not that I think anything we have is film worthy, but my family won't let me hear the end of it if they can't at least get a glimpse of us standing in the background. They all applied for tickets, but we were the only ones who got 'em.
Have another set of thanks, Jason! Yep, that was interesting and informative.
Looks like we beat the odds... one in ten applications gets a ticket? It only took six apps for us to get ours (great to have family) and my brother in Denver is the one that actually scored them. I think we will be spending most of our time in the folk art and toys lines.