Is There A Mania To Collecting?

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Is There A Mania To Collecting? Back in the early 90′s when I was a regular dealer on the Long Island baseball card show scene I’d see the same faces week to week. Sometimes I’d see the same faces multiple times per week. I had my favorites and then there were those I’d hope passed [...]

Because you are a writer who happens to know a great deal…

Chicago Writing Machine Co. 1899 with link follow to the Martin Howard Collection

You want to write, you have to write, and you want to inform and shower others with your brilliance… Here’s your chance to do so, by becoming a regular contributor to Fine Estate Sales Super Blog of the Informed… We are looking for you: If you have writing experience. Have some sort of vintage, antiques, [...]

Is Crafting a Dying Art?

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I just finished reading Jon Sutter’s post titled, “Contemporary Craft: Non-Functional or Dysfunctional?”, and I was immediately set to pondering. In his brief essay, he discusses the all but dead state of craft in our society. He notes, “The California Academy of Craft” dropping the “Craft” from their title, and the “American Craft Museum’s” complete [...]

A Salutation to Kick Off My Crafty Post On Fine Estate Liquidation

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Hello my name is Katherine Codina and one of my deepest passions is the art of craft. Crafting as I see it incorporates a myriad of artists, from the scrapbooker, outsider artist, candle maker, knitter, designer, and cook. There is no high brow nor low brow, just earnest creation. A Crafter is an alchemist who [...]

Can You Write About Estate Sales?

Estate Sale Writer Wanted: Do you go to estate sales in the L.A. Area? Do you shop them? Are you a dealer – an insider – have some experience writing? My name is Martin Codina and I have just started a Los Angeles Estate Liquidation blog, and I am looking for writers to add relevant [...]