| Kovels' List of Top Antiques Searches Reflect Current Events
Kovels has released the Top 20 list of antiques and collectibles for March based on results of hundreds of thousands of searches on its website. The top three searches - Pottery, Glass and Furniture - rarely change and are always the major areas of interest because they are useful antiques or collectibles found in every home. But the other items reflect a special interest often influenced by current news or auctions. For example, the recent ruling against selling war medals has created a problem for dealers and a change in prices of World War II souvenirs so it moved to number 10. The auctions of several large toy collections created extra publicity and interest in toy prices, and Toys made it into the 7th position. The entire top 20 list follows: Pottery and porcelain Glass Furniture Jewelry Bottles Metals Toys Prints, pictures, paintings, paper Royal Doulton World War II Stoves Coca-Cola Advertising Alabaster Silver plate Lighters Folk art Occupied Japan Weapons Music Kovels.com offers the Web's largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles.
A FEW OF THE MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF ROBERT EDWARD AUCTIONS’ APRIL 28 ...
In addition to over 1,000 lots of Baseball cards and memorabilia, Robert Edward Auctions is present-ing a tremendous selection of very high quality Comic, Pop Culture, and Americana related items in its April 28 sale. Bidding starts April 10 by FAX, phone, or the Internet via Robert Edward's state-of-the-art real-time interactive bidding site: www.RobertEdwardAuctions.com. The total sales for the event are expected to exceed $5-million. Coming to the block will be some 1,500 lots of collectibles dating from 1838 to 1975. Among the items of special interest will be: Over two-hundred lots of pre-1900 baseball cards and memorabilia, and Thousands of 1910 era tobacco cards.
Of special note is the unveiling of the recently discovered 1838 Philadelphia Olympics Constitution, the earliest relic of organized baseball from the first organized baseball team in existence (re-serve$50,000); The Barry Halper Estate Collection, comprised of over 200 extraordinary lots of base-ball memorabilia from the estate of the baseball world's most famous and legendary collector; The Na-tional Biscuit Collection, representing an extraordinary collection of items from the company's archives, including the original 1900 painting of the Uneeda Biscuit Boy, the corporate symbol of the company and at one time the single most famous advertising icon in the world; the largest collection of original artworks by Charles Addams to ever come to auction (21 original artworks, including many published in the New Yorker); two original Peanuts comic strip artworks by Charles Schulz including an extraor-dinary Baseball Sunday comic strip (reserve $5,000, est.
Bolger bids to allay Teofilio fears
HOLY Roman Emperor was the wham, Teofilio the bam, now ante-post punters will desperately hope for a change of luck by being able to say thank you ma'am at Newmarket today. With Holy Roman Emperor retired to stud, those who have dabbled in the markets for this year's early Classics haven't had their troubles to seek, and although the latest bulletin on Teofilio is slightly more encouraging, it didn't totally erase the worries of his supporters. .
City firms go happy capping
Our revelation that Clifford Chance has capped liability across the board on corporate due diligence will get City M&A partners scrambling to review their policies. Up until now only Eversheds has admitted capping its liability. But as The Lawyer's research reveals, liability caps on due diligence in M&A is seriously starting to take hold at the big City firms. It all started on the sell-side with vendor due diligence in auctions. Because the vendor's lawyers are facilitating a transaction for someone who is not their client, a cap on liability is relatively uncontroversial. But caps on the sell-side have started to erode client resistance on the buy-side. Accountants have been doing this for years, which has always made corporate lawyers pretty grumpy.
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