Right now, in our eBay store, http://stores.ebay.com/Studio-Antiques, you will find quite a few examples of a fairly difficult item to find, lithophanes. When I speak with customers in the shop, most have never heard of the term lithophane, so I thought it would be a great thing to reveal today.
The photographs above show just how beautiful a lithophane can be. The top two are actual lithophanes we have for sale. The bottom two...
Walter Plunkett & Katherine Hepburn: Original Costume Design for the film “Song of Love” 1947
We bought our shop almost 27 years ago from a man named Walter Kell. Walter had opened our shop 27 years earlier as an art studio. He had studied painting and drawing not only in the USA, but in Paris as well. He was well known in the Southern California community and had made many, many friends among local artists. Eventually, the Walt Kell Studio Art Shop morphed into a framing store and antique shop. Our name, Studio Antiques, came from the fact that Walt answered the telephone with...
This Week’s Find: Studio Antiques’ Picker’s Journal
2015 is upon us and it is my objective this year to write a blog entry every Sunday. Today, January 5th, 2015, represents my first post. Each and every week, something interesting comes into our shop, Studio Antiques. As a part of our normal course of business, we need to research these items in order to figure out WHAT we have and HOW to price it for sale. It is these interesting and unusual items that I will focus on in this blog. Learn along with us! I’ll also include a link to the...
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Read our recent interview with RADIO TIMES right here!
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-08-28/baggage-battles-how-to-fund-your-travel-by-bidding-on-unclaimed-luggage
Baggage Battles: How to fund your travel by bidding on unclaimed luggage
Travel Channel’s new dose of auction action is set to begin, and the show’s presenters and antiques experts Laurence and Sally Martin run us through the tricks of their trade
By Radio Times Staff
Thursday 28 August 2014 at 04:00PM
More than £25 billion worth of property travels around the world...
2015 is upon us and it is my objective this year to write a blog entry every Sunday. Today, January 5th, 2015, represents my first post. Each and every week, something interesting comes into our shop, Studio Antiques. As a part of our normal course of business, we need to research these items in order to figure out WHAT we have and HOW to price it for sale. It is these interesting and unusual items that I will focus on in this blog. Learn along with us! I’ll also include a link to the...