P.J. Harston of the London Free Press reports that Forest City Coins and Stamps Ltd. continues to thrive by buying, selling, trading and accumulating collectibles:
The items are as diverse as you might imagine — everything from ancient Roman and Greek coins and 100 million-year-old fossils to hockey cards and military medals.
Forest City Coins and Stamps Ltd. has been a staple in London for more than 40 years, billing itself as one of the city’s most interesting shops.
Hillary Whitcomb Jesse of The Times Herald writes this tidbit about an antique store in Port Huron that looks forward to Boat Week and its influx of antique buyers:
“People come back to see us from all over, especially during Boat Week,” manager Sharon Bender said. “They’re more than ever asking for nautical items.”
Bender has managed the store, which opened in 2000, since 2001 for owner Erich Harris.
She said they’ve been stocking up on nautical-themed antiques and collectibles and have sold many such items already.
“Generally the boat people are more savvy antiquers,” Bender said.
Dwight Chapin of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that old Sports Illustrated magazines are very collectible:
Cards, autographs and player memorabilia have generated most of the headlines in sports memorabilia lately, but there’s another passionate wing of the hobby that deserves some attention:
That is magazine collecting.
The East Valley Tribune posts this article from the Orange County Register about a new book on caring for your antiques and collectibles:
People save stuff. Letters from friends, stacks of faded newspapers, crates of vinyl records — and that’s just me! Nearly everyone has a little trove of treasures: Family photographs, kindergarten art projects, grandma’s wedding dress.
We save things because they have value to us — sentimental, financial, historical — and we want them to last so that others can appreciate them, too.
But the sad truth is that for all our good intentions, most of us don’t do a good job of preserving our cherished artifacts.
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business writes that a new antiques and collectibles magazine will be hitting the newsstands this August:
Tapping into the growing interest in collecting, Hearst Magazines’ shelter title Country Living will launch a newsstand-only offshoot next month that will focus on the world of antiques and collectibles.
Country Living Collecting, which will be published annually, will be edited by Douglas Brenner, former editor-in-chief of Martha Stewart Living, and will be aimed at everyone from bargain hunters to seasoned collectors.
Craig Sterrett of the News Tribune reports that Rolf Achilles talked to antique collectors at the Hegeler-Carus Mansion about antiques:
Not everyone who collects antiques sets out to find rarities and significant pieces of art history. Many antique collections grow as the buyers make purchases for sentimental reasons, for souvenirs or because the item simply looks nice.
And, 100 years ago, before those things were antiques and collectibles, collectors such as the Matthiessens, Hegelers and Caruses of La Salle were acquiring those items, often new, for sentimental reasons, as keepsakes from trips or for their beauty.
The Datamonitor reports that in the first of its kind, an US company has out bid companies from around the world for Ethiopian organic coffee beans:
The auction was the culmination of the ECAFE Foundation’s two-year project that worked with Ethiopian coffee producers to identify high quality coffees and conduct regional and national competitions to promote them.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, of Waterbury, Vermont, US made an auction-high bid of $6.50 per pound for Wotona Bultuma cooperative’s fair trade organic beans.