Antique Flatware: A profitable hobby

It has been a well versed and quite stable practice for people with different backgrounds, religion and race to engage in the art of collecting antique flatware for different reasons that range from either fulfilling various personal fantasies which relates to beautifying their homes with a piece of history or making a quick and recognizable profit from engaging in this sort of antique collection. Normally, getting this flatware’s would be deemed as ancient, but It does not matter if the flatware to be collected is termed antiquated, as this would be totally untrue as by getting them, we try to recreate a piece of history that has been neglected or long forgotten due to wars and disasters which could be natural or man made.

Having a hold of an antique flatware does not necessarily mean that they should be carved out in a specific shape or size as they could be gotten in different forms like gold, silver, bronze or stainless steel, and all these different forms in which they

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Where to Sell Your Sterling Silver Flatware

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Lakeview to hold 38th annual antique show

The Monongalia Arts Center will be holding its 38th annual "Antiques Show and Sale," Feb. 25 to Feb. 27 at Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa in Morgantown.

Admission is $6 and is good for each day of the show. The show will be Friday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

There will be a broad range of antiques including formal, country, Victorian, oak furniture and paintings.

The charity auction will also offer oriental rugs and exports, European porcelains, brass, sterling silver and matching flatware, jewelry, crocks, vintage clothing, linens, paper and advertising items, postcards, quilts, cut, art and pattern glass, Roseville pottery, toys and rare books.

The MAC will be offering information about its events, as well as selling art and jewelry.

It will also be sponsoring an oriental rug dealer who will be selling more than 200 rugs.

"With the changing times, there is a very mix of things," said John Mickinak, one of the show's managers. "If you are young to an older collector, you will find something of interest. The other show manager is John Kroeck."

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Gina's Auction Gallery
Gina's Auction Gallery
STERLING NAPKIN RINGS, STERLING TRIPLE CANDLE SICKS, STERLING BREAD PLATES, STEIFF STERLING EMBOSSED CREAMER, STERLING LOTS OF SALTS & PEPPERS, 12-STERLING WINE STEMS, FLATWARE & SERVING PIECES, ALSO SILVER PLATE TEA SERVICE, VICT.

Fall Hunting Season
This is the time to bring out the recipes, serving pieces, china, flatware, silver, glassware and tablecloths which have seen generations of our family's history. As we use these items, we may recall our family's oral history and enduring traditions.

Antique dealers to return for show
Cynthia Ungar's Sterling: Sterling flatware; Gentry's Antiques Silver, estate jewelry and small porcelains; Gold Leaf Jewelry, 19th-20th century art; JE Antiques: Antique linens; Josephine Hart Thrasher Antiques prints, antique and estate jewelry,

Collectibles, oddities, rarities, antiquities
Collectibles, oddities, rarities, antiquities
We rambled through two floors of rooms filled with costume jewelry, vintage clothing, and stuff like a pair of leopard lamps, flatware from an old Statler Hotel, and a wild collection of salt and pepper shakers. “A woman brought me her collection of

ANTIQUE AUCTION
ANTIQUE AUCTION
salver, etc., large lots of coin silver flatware to include Moulton Newburyport and other makers; sterling includes 102-piece flatware set .800 fine, Arts and Crafts hand-hammered silver compote; gold bracelet with cut amethyst stone and pearls,