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October 25, 2004
Collectibles
Interview
with Terry Kovel, author of the book, Kovels'
American Antiques
Mike
Carruthers:
It's amazing what collectors collect. Terry
Kovel :
I
know people who collect eggbeaters, toasters, potato mashers, match holders. I
even know someone who collects sawdust and I know another one who collects dirt. Teri
Kovel, co-author of the book, Kovels'
American Antiques says furniture from the early 1900's can be very collectable
and very valuable. The
name you'll recognize is Gustav Stickley. Stickley furniture was the one that
was the most important and most popular. And Stickey pieces today have sold for
as much as three or four hundred thousand dollars. There's a cabinet that sold
for that recently. Something
can be collectible and valuable not just because of what it is but also who owned
it. If it's
George Washington's dish it's worth a lot more than if it's just the dish. There
seems to be a hot new collecting area, maybe because it's an election year and
maybe it's just because people have gotten more interested in the past and history.
But, if you can prove that the dishes are the dishes that Lincoln used or you
know the autograph was his it's got a value. And
something that's become quite valuable just recently is… Souvenir
paintings that were done by guys that sit along the highways and sold them to
the tourists in Florida. Dark landscapes with big bright moons and sort of garish
paintings but these men have become very famous as folk artists and the paintings
are selling for ten thousand dollars and up.
At
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I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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