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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

International Society of Appraisers

In the past, furniture companies and named designers' ideas were the only ideas showcased on the printed or digital page. Items such as folk art, unique and creative paintings, hand-blown Venetian glass, delft style ceramic tiles, handmade vases, and quilts are splashed throughout interiors.

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Insights on Auction Sales: 1998 Corvette, Tiki Bar

WorthPoint

For enthusiasts of American ceramics, this was a cheerful find with historical significance despite its modest price. A Hockney Pool Print This 972 Munich Olympics poster by David Hockney sold for $14,516.10 A Hockney Pool Print This 972 Munich Olympics poster by David Hockney sold for $14,516.10 It measured 34.5″

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

Invaluable

Touch and technique are inextricably intertwined in textile and the mixed media works, encaustic painting and ceramic forms gaining in popularity. The Triumph of Texture and Material: Textiles, Encaustic, and Ceramics Sheila Hicks – Macro Broderie Tapestry. Sold for $75,000 USD via Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. February 2025).

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Knots, Spirals, and the Symbolic Power of Celtic Art

Invaluable

Celtic motifs began to resurge in architecture, paintings, ceramics and textiles, bringing forth a brand-new generation of makers and a wave of Celtic influence within popular culture. Highland Park – 50 year old, with sterling silver ‘cage’ by Scottish artist Maeve Gillies.

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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

Invaluable

What it Means to be Human Man with Ceramic Reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica in the town of Gernika (Guernica), Bascay, Spain, located on the same street as the Gernika Assembly House ( Wikimedia Commons ). Vintage George Orwell 1984, Early Printing. Sold for $250 via The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. October 2021).

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Top Thrift Store Shopping Finds

Dr. Lori Ph.D. Antiques Appraiser

How do you tell if you have a valuable print, photograph or ceramic? Hear the stories of three finds including a Rembrandt print, an Ansel Adams photograph and a Royal Vienna ceramic. Where do you look for the top thrift store shopping finds? See where they were found as Dr. Lori reveals how to identify the valuables.

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Elzac Jewelry: Victims of Fashion Face Pins and More

WorthPoint

I remember running across a ceramic face pin many years ago and thinking it looked a lot like Josephine Baker, the American-born singer, dancer, and actress who famously made a name for herself working in France in the 1920s and ‘30s. Elzac duck family pin made of painted ceramic material and Lucite. How about Elzac?