“He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.” Edgar R. Fiedler quotes
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<span style=”font-size:medium;”><span style=”font-family:Arial Black;”>I can’t remember not having an appreciation for old things. I used to go digging in old dumps with my grandmother when I was a child, so the thrill of the treasure hunt has been in my blood ever since I can remember. You should join me and my friends at OnlineAuction.com, Great deals, treasures to be found and lots of fun!! 🙂 If you are thinking of selling, here are some testimonials……. Yippee! Xoxo Thanks for reading my blog!!</span></span>
<a href=”http://www.ola.com/store/metzymom” target=”_blank”>MetzyMom</a>,I buy and sell at <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/” target=”_blank”>www.onlineauction.com</a> (aka <a href=”http://www.ola.com/” target=”_blank”>www.OLA.com</a> ) and I love it there. I am a Founding Member there, which means I get a Free Store for Life and I will NEVER pay more than $8 a month in my lifetime to be a member (plus a lot of other perks, but those were huge to me). Remember when some sites were inexpensive to list on? For $8 a month, EVERY SELLER (whether you are a Basic Member, Charter Member, or Founding Member), we get to list as many items as we want. We pay no listing fees. We pay no final value fees. We choose how our customers will pay us (PP, GCO, RME, Checks, MO’s, etc… any way YOU choose). We run our businesses the way we choose, not the way some site chooses for us. Feedback is a two-way street. We get 4 free pictures (that enlarge for free) with every listing. We do as much (or as little) advertising as we like. We list what we like. We price the way we like. We choose our own postage and shipping companies. At <a href=”http://www.ola.com/” target=”_blank”>www.OLA.com</a>, you do things the same way you would in a regular brick and mortar store! It’s awesome!
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I SELL ON OLA! OnlineAuction.com! <a href=”http://www.ola.com/store/draggontagger” target=”_blank”>Draggon Tagger’s Cave</a>! Lots of great sellers there and very friendly too! And it’s only 8 bucks a month period! No listing, Final value or hidden fees and most sellers only charge ACTUAL SHIPPING! Not the blown out of proportion charges like other sites. List all you want for that $8 a month and the only extra you will pay is for enhancements that you choose! You can have up to 4 pictures FREE in your listings too! Lots of bonuses there! I won’t sell anywhere else! Come look us up! I’m
From the TruTv show Big Brian the Fortune Seller! Anna the jewelry expert
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“I love it here at OnlineAuction.com,” says <a href=”http://www.ola.com/store/letsplaytagsales” target=”_blank”>letsplaytagsales</a>, a founding member, “it has been a pleasure selling here. There’s really less stress than anywhere else I have sold before. I have been selling on this site since August, of this year; but I have been selling online for over 10 years. I once was running four sites on my own at the same auction house.
I started selling online to make money and support my family since I was going through hard times and needed to find something to do besides retail which is exactly what I do…I own a retail store, sell costume jewelry and at the same time I was going through a divorce with no child support, I had to sell online. At first, I began making some big money on eBay and that helped me a lot by keeping my store alive and taking care of my four kids.
Now I have found this great site and I love it here! Ebay did not do the right thing by me and even with as much money as I was paying for fees, they didn’t care…and you know what? Neither did I because I knew I could make it anywhere.
So eBay lost the best seller they had. So, here I am, and as happy as can be with OnlineAuction.com. My love is buying and selling. I enjoy not only the selling and the buying but meeting the people and knowing the history of the people. When I know that I have helped someone in need by buying an item from them, it makes me happier to know I helped them.
Soon, I’ll be on a TV reality show preview in February! It’s on TRUTV as a tag sale seller…a really great fun show that will be on once a week, 1 hr. a week nationwide. I am very excited about this and will be finding many more goodies to bring on OnlineAuction.com to sell. On creating a great store on OnlineAuction.com … I feel that just a happy colorful honest place to shop is the answer, doesn’t have to be fancy, just happy and inviting.” <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.age=auction:view_item&auction_id=1441617″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.age=auction:view_item&auction_id=1441617</a> Anna Dray Feed back 2116 See Anna live on TV <a href=”http://www.trutv.com/video/big-brian-fortune-seller/getting-to-know-anna.html”>http://www.trutv.com/video/big-brian-fortune-seller/getting-to-know-anna.html</a>Anna Dray Feed back 2116 See Anna live on TV <a href=”http://www.trutv.com/video/big-brian-fortune-seller/getting-to-know-anna.html”>http://www.trutv.com/video/big-brian-fortune-seller/getting-to-know-anna.html</a>
<a href=”http://www.ola.com/store/curiocache” target=”_blank”>Melissa</a>, feed back 1221 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31070″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31070</a>
A 50-year old Lake Stevens, Wash., resident, who sold items on eBay for nine years, says she left the auction giant for a smaller auction site over customer service issues. “If you e-mailed a question, it would take days to get an answer back and lots of times it was just an automated response,” she says. Another former eBay seller, Jennie Westcott of Marshalltown, Iowa, expressed a similar view and wound up going to a smaller site, OnlineAuction.com, where “you can dial the number and, boom, you have people” not computer crap where you have to deal with ring-around-the-rosy stuff.”
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/LauraDaGoddess”>Laura DaGoddess</a>
Are you a seller on there? We have been using EBay for a very long time, but since they started charging final fees on SHIPPING!! We quit them. In fact, they owe us money due to a non-payer and are forcing us to use it instead of crediting our PP account. EBay has turned to absolute Sh**. OnlineAuction.com…They sound almost too good to be true. Tell me about this.
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/MetzyMom”>Elizabeth Metz</a>
Laura, I have been a Business Owner at OnlineAuction.com since leaving eBay February of 2008. I have never, not once, regretted that move. I feel like I am a part of a family, a family who cares… a family who helps me to succeed… a family who understands me… On the business end, I love owning my own store on OLA. When I was at the Bay, I “thought” I was a store owner… but I wasn’t’. I was more a “renter” because I had to follow their rules, their guidelines, their policies… I couldn’t believe it when I realized that THEIR policies overrode my own! That isn’t a business owner that is a renter. Now, at OnlineAuction.com, I actually OWN and RUN my own business. I decide what to sell. I decide what kinds of payment choices to offer. I decide and enforce my own policies. I decide whether free shipping is appropriate or not. No one pressuring me to run my business their way versus my way. AND NO MORE FEES! Do you have any idea what kind of peace of mind I get not worrying each month if I will sell enough to pay my freaking fees? At OnlineAuction.com, I know exactly how much it will cost me to maintain my store every month: $8.00. That’s it. Eight Bucks. As a Founding Member, I pay once a year ($96.00) and am guaranteed that rate for life. I could go on and on about how wonderful OnlineAuction.com is… how wonderful they’ve been to me… how wonderful they are to every one of their members… but I guess I should leave something for everyone else to post…. lol…
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000532042340″>Marjorie Wood</a> 140 feedback <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=23186″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=23186</a>
I love OLA!!!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001723507144″>Donna John</a> same here!! <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction:view_item&auction_id=1415128″>http://www.onlineauction.com//index.php?page=auction:view_item&auction_id=1415128</a>
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000689119311″>Amy Clark</a> feedback 415 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=38914″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=38914</a>
OLA is the best place to be!! I was on the ‘bay to start and quit when the top seller program was so unfair to small sellers. After complaining, they finally made me a top seller but I still quit because they were censoring my “About me” page! I have now been with OLA for over a year and I LOVE it there!! No extra fees, no wondering if I’m going to make top seller or not, no SHARING my profit with the company!! I am a founding member and I have a store for $96.00 a YEAR!!!! How’s that?? Anyway, I have over 900 listings at the present time. Do I pay more? NO!! We have great fun, contests; people at OLA help each other because we want everyone to succeed!! So come on over and check us out!! You will be glad you did!! 🙂
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451461097″>Kim Lockridge</a>
I’m really fed up with EBay, been selling on there for 12 years. But how are the sales on OLA? Do they have a large amount of buyers or does most the stuff sit and not sell? I’ve tried a couple other venues but the sales just didn’t compare. I would love to leave EBay though….
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/MetzyMom”>Elizabeth Metz</a>
Kim, there is no doubt that eBay remains the most highly trafficked site for auctions, but percentage wise, we’re right there with them. If you are willing to promote yourself (and I’ll help you… we all will) and use proper SEO techniques (again, I’ll help you… we all will), you too can compete with eBay. I’ve been doing far better than I did at eBay for years. I’m currently recovering from surgeries, and still have one left to go, plus I’m changing products that I make and sell, so I’m not doing much right now… I’m just starting to regroup and get going again, but trust me, you do the work, and you’ll reap the benefits. It’s up to YOU how well you will do at OLA. You will literally get out of it what you put into it. Honestly, all it takes is following proper SEO Techniques (Score 4 and Expose Your Store is a “How To” in chat and it’s free to everyone), and a little Social Networking (OLA Chat Forum, Facebook, Twitter, Team Blog). I’ve got advertising and promotion down to 10 minutes a day and can show you how!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/MetzyMom”>Elizabeth Metz</a>
For those of you thinking about joining OnlineAuction.com: Why not try it out for 6 months? 6 months will cost you $48. For $48 bucks, you get unlimited listings, no listing or final value fees, and enough help from the Staff and Members to choke a horse… why not try it out? You could go less time, but I seriously think a 6 month commitment is the minimum to establish and show your full potential as a store owner. Personally, I signed up for the Founding Membership right off the bat. My initial start-up as a Founding Member was less than half of what my final month at eBay cost me in fees. I gave myself a year… and it paid off. Why not give it a try? You just have to believe in yourself… I did and I have never been happier! Is it scary to leave the Bay? Sure it is! But you can do it! Make it less painful by selling on both for a couple weeks… that will give you time (and self-confidence) to get your OLA House off the ground and running!!!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002406525023″>Renee Ola</a>
While I work for OLA can only reiterate what has been said. We have created affordable memberships for every budget. While the Founding Membership is the best offer, you can try OLA for as little as $8.00 a month! Most eBay sellers pay that in fees with just a listing. At OLA you truly get to run YOUR business YOUR WAY. Aside from NO listing fees and NO final value fees, you can accept any form of payment you wish to. If anyone has any questions you can contact me here on FB, or call our toll-free # where you can get live assistance! 800-900-2828 – You can also register for free on OLA, and visit our chat rooms and ask questions directly with sellers using OLA. We have some of the nicest people in our OLA community!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113252345″>Anna Dray</a>
They say the other place is like an addiction…and yes maybe it was to many of us and some of us..Trying to get out of the addiction so badly that it almost feels impossible to do, fear out of not making money elsewhere. But the problem is..That other place makes you scared to leave and you don’t know why..Even though the fees are disgusting, the way they treat sellers is terrible, the feedback system is horrible..So there should be no excuses to leave that place for a place OLA.COM that will feel better with no Fee’s to worry about except for a monthly fee, becoming a family and having a real place to call home..Where you can sell and feel happy about it..No stress! A few people who i convinced to finally join ola.com were afraid to but did it..Afraid people wouldn’t buy, wouldn’t see the items or whatever the fear is..They finally came to OLA.COM. Of course if you wean yourself off of something bad like the other place, it’s confusing, but don’t let it be, make it just as easy as it was the first time you found that other place. And make OLA.COM the place you will start a nice clean slate.Im sure you will be so happy you did. Trust me, i am..And I’m not going anywhere else.
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002015000255″>Sue Swallow</a>
We joined OLA.com in February 2008 and it’s the best place for online sellers! You can get help from the sellers in the chat forums but best of all you can get live customer support.
Best move we ever made! <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=22491″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=22491</a>
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=572007498″>Madeline Roberts</a> feedback 432 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=26978″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=26978</a>
I have been with OLA for years; wouldn’t sell anywhere else. They are the greatest. You need to try for yourself.
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113252345″>Anna Dray</a>
Don’t be scared to leave something BAD for SOMETHING GREAT! How can you go wrong for THE BEST..OLA.COM..COME JOIN!!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000690386535″>Sharon Mae Halat</a>
YES, EBAY STINKS! OLA.COM IS NOW THE FUTURE OF ONLINE AUCTIONS AS THEY TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT AND OPERATE WITH GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICES! YOU CAN YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113252345″>Anna Dray</a>
One of my friends said. But it’s confusing! What’s so confusing about it? You find OLA.COM you learn it, you sell, you buy, the best customer service..Like i have said before, it’s like the party dance floor, who gets up to dance first. Then others will follow and it becomes one big party..You learn step by step. I have 2 Houses on OLA and I LOVE IT there! The people are amazing! The setup is so totally easy to understand! The atmosphere is relaxed and fun! I feel like I belong to a large, friendly family too! Just imagine a huge dinner table with tons of chairs all filled with the members of OLA sitting down to enjoy a home cooked meal and sharing their events of the day! THAT IS WHAT OLA IS TO ME! No matter what you need, what you are looking for….And what is missing in your life..OLA will fill that void! It is not only a selling venue. ITS HOME! I have NEVER felt like that with EBay or anywhere else for that matter..OLA IS HOME!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000498812551″>Valerie Swank Trautman</a>
This is what David Caldwell Director of OLA has to say: As a director of OLA, I can offer a few of my own personal feelings that I have acquired through these last years, I deal with antiques on every level as a buyer, seller, appraiser and am around many people in this trade, the thing I have notice the most is, when OLA first started, we had so much to offer people that I thought it would happen fast, I was wrong. When I was first with people of the trade I would hand out cards to help people get on line, the acceptance was very low, and you could tell that people didn’t believe what I was informing them about the site, now when there is a group of people that I am with, they want cards for them, their families, and their neighbors. OLA’s Acceptance Now Is 100%
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1369197046″>Jo Ann Cathey-Rasi</a>
I left the other place for a number of reasons. One of them being they owe me $84.95 for double charging me one month. They said Yes we owe you BUT we are not going to put the money back in PayPal. I told them to kiss off. I found OLA within one week, and signed up within the hour after checking them out. I was welcomed by other members as if they knew me for years, and I needed help and got it from them without calling the service line for OLA. That’s great to me. Once I did have to call the office and I talked to a real person who actually answered the phone and helped me with the problem. It was someone who is not a member of OLA trying to rip me off. If you are at eBay tell me how long you wait before you get to talk to someone only to be put on hold and then hung up on. It was 1 hr. and 47 min for me. I am glad that happened because it sent me to the bestselling place to be ever. I own my store and nobody tells me what to do with it. If a buyer is not being fair, OLA stands behind the seller if they are right. DOES EBAY DO THAT FOR YOU? If you are honest you will say no-no listing fees, no final value fees, you pay only $8.00 a month and can list up to 8,000 items. Automatic relisting at no charge. I joined as a founding member and my fee will be the same for my life. Now I searched the internet for other sites so I could get rid of the ripping me off. I still have not gotten my funds back from eBay but now I do not care. I love OLA and the ease of listing, the friends I’ve made there and I will not sell anyplace else. At OLA “WE ARE FAMILY” seems to be the motto. OLA ROCKS
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/joyce.randall1″>Joyce Randall</a>
Ola has just about everything I have dealt in jewelry for years and have made a lot of good buys on the site OLA Rocks!!!!!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1597915067″>Melissa Snell</a>
After 9 years at eBay, I left too. I’ve been at OLA for 2 1/2 years and have nearly as many positive feedbacks as I did at …that place… after 9 long years and a TON more money. I’ve met the very nicest, most generous caring people at OLA. I’ve gotten phones calls from the staff and owner, and even a surprise gift! There are contests, games, and lots of goodwill in the Chat Rooms, and many of my cyber-seller friends have become my good friends in “real” life now! I would recommend onlineauction.com to ANYONE, and encourage “newbies” to get to know everyone… there is always so much valuable information shared by OLA members. LOVE it there!!! 🙂 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31070″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31070</a>
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/DraggonTagger”>Jennie Vibbard Westcott</a> feedback 2227 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=16113″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=16113</a>
I have been with OLA since 2007 after leaving thE-bay when things started getting strange! I haven’t regretted it one bit! At least at OLA YOU run your business, JUST YOU! You have the support you need when you need it too! We fight fraud at OLA but WE ALL fight it! You’re not alone in the battle, PLUS any time you have questions, just ask! There’s ALWAYS someone there to help! REAL PEOPLE TOO! Not automated services. I can’t imagine selling anywhere else either! My feedback after 4 years is WAY better at OLA than it ever would have been at thE-bay. Like I said, I can’t imagine selling anywhere else! I LOVE OLA!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000915942365″>Valerie Fain</a>
I didn’t make the video, I think it’s really great, that’s why I posted it! Thanks for all comments; our users are our “family”. My husband and I founded OnlineAuction.com the company, I thought my post might be considered a little biased …lol. Our sellers helped build our site, our company, and our beliefs we never want to lose sight of that!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1369197046″>Jo Ann Cathey-Rasi</a> feedback 378 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=64290″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=64290</a>
Valerie, thanks to you and <a href=”http://www.facebook.com/chris.fain1″>Chris</a> for making this available to anyone who wants to have their own store and run their own store as such a reasonable set price with no hidden cost such as listing fees, final value fees and relisting fees. I love the easy to use format and the freedom I have on OLA to do things my way and the support I get from friends I have made there and also from OLA staff. Keep up the work. I do not care that you not make the video, just want to thank you for sharing it. OLA ROCKS and so do you and your staff
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=801559172″>Cheryl Meinke</a> OLA member since 2008 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31746″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=31746</a>
The Terrific Tuesday contest is fun, join in. OLA has much more personal contact than its competitors, good friends and lots of help available when you need it.
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000689119311″>Amy Clark</a>
Oh, yes and sign-ups are going on NOW!!! Just go to the chats!! And I get to host the Scavenger Hunt this month!! So come on over and get involved!!!!
<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sczysz”>Susan Brahm Czysz</a> feedback 325 <a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=40925″>http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction_house:main&user_id=40925</a>
Scavenger Hunts are AWESOME on OLA! The prize is amazing! $100 in auction credit upgrades! C’mon over people! Sign up to join the best family on the web! We have other cool games too! We also have the annual Secret Santa sign ups going on right now too! Allot going on in our family! What are you waiting for??
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<a href=”http://www.ola.com/” target=”_blank”>Chris</a>,
A former eBay powerseller and now president of OnlineAuction.com, says eBay’s strategy to serve its biggest buyers and sellers and shut out the little guys is short-sighted. “It’s senseless because those are the guys that built you,”
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<h2>Supergrannys Treasures…..</h2>
Bette Davis says “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” So let me enjoy life and laugh….dance, sing, wear funny clothes and different color socks and hope that I don’t wear my underwear on top of my pants or on my head.
I’m tired of thinking let’s all go find the best bargains on the NET…<a href=”http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php” target=”_blank”>CLICK HERE for Online Auction</a>. It’s going to be a wonderful holiday season. Enjoy!
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The Entrance Hall of the White House in 1882, showing the newly installed Tiffany glass screens.
Sotheby’s New York will hold their sale of Important Tiffany today, December 16, 2010. There are only 33 lots in the sale — but most of them are important and high quality. The offerings range from original oil paintings by Louis Comfort Tiffany to glass to lamps, like a Laburnum, lot 227.
You would think their experts would be able to spot a fake Tiffany vase when they saw one, but lot 202, sneaked past them and into their catalog. It’s listed as “A Superb Monumental Floriform Vase”, circa 1900, Favrile glass, engraved L.C. Tiffany-Favrile W2977, 16 5/8″ high. Provenance — Private Collection, Paris. $15,000-20,000. The only problem is that it’s not by Tiffany Studios, but a modern reproduction. Upon receipt of the catalog, I immediately doubted the authenticity of the vase, but waited to make a final judgment until I could see it in person. There was no doubt in person. The cup part of the vase was good quality, but the foot was all wrong. It’s a decoration Tiffany did not do. The signature was an obvious fake, of which, unfortunately, I don’t have a photo. I can only assume that the European consignor was an important client with other valuable objects, so the vase did not get the proper scrutiny it deserved. It’s rare for reproductions to get past their experts.
(P.S. – Thursday afternoon, December 16, 2010, 1:55 PM. I just found out that Sotheby’s withdrew the above lot, #202, before sale time. I don’t know if someone read my blog and informed them or if they found out another way, but luckily it was not put up for sale. It saved the potential buyer a lot of grief.)
http://blog.chasenantiques.com/2010/12/16/even-sothebys-make-mistakes/
Rose O’Neill was a self-trained artist who periodically lived in the Missouri Ozarks throughout her adult life. She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a young age, became the best-known and highest-paid female commercial illustrator in the United States. She also wrote novels and poetry. O’Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse.

Five Rose O’Neill Kewpie Dolls Price Realized: $235.00 Cowans Auction
“The idea grew from a baby brother when I was a little girl. I made drawings of him while I played with him. All his little looks and gestures came out later in the Kewpie.”
Rose elaborated on the story of how the Kewpies came into being. While Rose was on an extended stay at Bonniebrook in 1909, the Kewpie was born. Rose recounted, “In illustrating love stories I had a way of making decorative head and tail pieces with Cupids. Edward Bok of the Ladies’ Home Journal cut out a number of these and sent them to me. He asked me if I could make a series of the little creatures and said that he would find someone to make accompanying verses. I replied that I would make the verses up myself and wrote him an illustrated letter in which I created the character of the Kewpie. I invented the name for little Cupid, spelling it with a K because it seemed funnier. I thought about the Kewpies so much that I had a dream about them where they were all doing acrobatic pranks on the coverlet of my bed.”
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The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
Are the days that she brings,
With her dusky wings,
And her bosom snowy white!
Longfellow—


In 1909, following a highly successful venture that revealed the possibility of mass production, Lalique opened his first glassworks factory in Combs-la-Ville. Throughout the flourishing Art Nouveau era, Lalique’s factory produced many crystal works of art like perfume bottles, inkwells, vases, bookends and decorative boxes. Due to the enormous rise in popularity of designs by René Lalique, a larger glassworks factory was opened in 1921 at Wingen-sur-Moder in the Alsace-Lorraine region.
I just bought a Gucci purse on OnlineAuction.com! from a seller letsplaytagsales http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction:view_item&auction_id=1354040&title=Vintage_outstanding_Judith_Leiber_crocodile_skin_jeweled_belt!! I was curious of the history of Gucci………………..
In 1921, Guccio Gucci opened a leather goods company and small luggage store in his native Florence. Though his vision for the brand was inspired by London, and the refined aesthetic of English nobility he had witnessed while working in the Savoy Hotel, his goal on returning to Italy was to ally this classy sensibility with the unique skills of his native Italy. Specifically, with the master craftsmanship of local Tuscan artisans.
Gucci was founded as a saddlery shop in 1906 by Guccio Gucci (1881), a craftsman’s offspring. The house of Gucci was initially founded in Florence. Guccio Gucci had an excellent talent for leather craftsmanship. Gucci started by selling bags made of leather to horsemen in early 1920’s and graduated to making and selling leather luggage as the clients moved on from horses to cars. 1938 saw the opening of Gucci’s first retail outlet on Via Condotti in Rome.
1947 saw the beginning of the Gucci tradition taking shape in form of bamboo handled leather bag that became the Gucci icon. 1950’s saw the development of trademark red webbing, borrowed form the roots – the saddle girth. This turned out to be the emblem of Gucci after some time.
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. Gucci
Plique-á-jour is a French term for enamel that has no backing. A design is outlined in metal and filled with various colored transparent enamels giving the effect of a stained glass window. This technique was used in the 15th century by Benvenuto Cellini and was rediscovered in France in 1900. This style of enameling was very popular during the Art Nouveau period.
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Sotheby’s LOT 153
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HAROLD KNIGHT, R.A.1874-1961THE GIRL AND THE PICTURE
signed l.r.: Harold Knight; signed, titled and inscribed on a old label attached to the stretcher: The Girl and the Picture/ Harold Knight/ Oak Hill/ St. Buryan/ Cornwall
oil on canvas 80,000—120,000 GBP
In the present work the young woman gazing out of the window recalls William Orpen’s The Window, 1901 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), a painting shown at the New English Art Club, but which has its roots in Victorian illustration. From 1909 to 1911 Knight’s most frequent model was Edith Florence Carter-Wood, a young woman who had come to Cornwall as a student of
Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, and who was shortly to marry Alfred Munnings.[5] Unlike ‘portrait interiors’ of the wealthy by Orpen and John Lavery, Knight’s rooms are comfortable but Spartan. In this context we may recall the Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershoi whose cool, tonal interiors were occasionally shown in London exhibitions in the Edwardian years. However in Knight, an element of stylish rusticity remains, undoubtedly reflecting the spacious farmhouse at Lamorna known as Trewarveneth, which he and Laura rented before their removal to Oakhill – a single house converted from three cottages by the local squire, Colonel Paynter.[6] Deep window recesses and unpapered walls indicate Cornish stone structures rather than modern brick-built townhouses. The effect of Knight’s ‘modern life’ upon fellow Newlyn painters such as Harold Harvey – particularly in works such as The Blue Gown, 1917 (private collection) – was immense.
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Officials from Goodwill Industries say the ring has been appraised at $17,600, making it the most expensive item ever donated to Goodwill Industries Keystone Area.
The ring was discovered last week by retired jewelry Barry Landis, who has sorted through donated jewelry in Goodwill’s Harrisburg distribution center for the last two years. Most of it is costume jewelry, but the donated diamond shone through. The ring has a two-carat European-cut diamond, surrounded 14 smaller diamonds.
Edwardian engagement rings are famous for its intricate designs and delicate patterns that every bride will certainly love to have. These rings were made from the finest materials and carefully handcrafted to produce high-quality engagement rings.
The Edwardian era was a period of lavishness in terms of fashion and jewelry. It is during the time in power of King Edward VII, from 1901 to 1910. Though this epoch lasted for only a decade, the designs were continuously utilized until around 1920.
During this time, jewelers used platinum and diamonds to craft an engagement ring with intricate designs and filigree patterns that resemble an airy design that’s very romantic. They incorporate contoured circles and arches to the filigree patterns to add texture to the design. Romantic symbols such as flowers, leaves, doves, hearts, and vines were used to highlight the filigree patterns. They also use multiple stones which are smaller than the center stone to accentuate it; this is called the pave settings, which is very popular in this era.
Today, antique Edwardian engagement rings are not common to be seen in a jewelry store. They are most likely to be seen at estate sale or auction. Usually, a piece of it would cost you several thousands of dollars; ranging from $6,000 up to $12,000. And if your budget can’t afford to buy an expensive antique Edwardian engagement ring, you can settle for the modern ones. They are replicas of the vintage and they are less expensive but they offer the same beauty and elegance. You can buy those pieces through online shopping or you can visit your favorite jewelry boutique.
Just my two cents here, but it’s always a good idea to have photographs of your rings and such! It is reported that there were phone calls from people claiming it was their ring with no proof.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Pam_Kazmierczak Information from The Patriot-News, http://www.pennlive.com/patriotnews

The man who donated the bag apparently realised his mistake when his wife told him that she had been keeping their life savings in the old suitcase.
Staff at the Salvation Army shop in Beaconsfield said that the man had returned to the store to plead with them to find the case. However, it had been sold two days earlier.
Brad Halse, a spokesman for The Salvation Army, said the shop was trying to trace the buyer through recent credit card transactions.
But he said with the cash sewn into the lining, it was possible the buyer did not even know he or she had hit the jackpot.
“Any person could have bought the suitcase and be completely unaware that there’s anything in the lining,” Mr Halse said.
Hmm………… wonder what the suitcase looked like? Maybe like this one?
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