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Event Details
An antiques and collectibles appraisal event featuring author and antiques expert Mark F. Moran.
Registration is required to have an antique or collectible appraised. $15.00 per item appraisal fee and a limit of 3 items per registrant.
Call 920-448-4407 to register. Benefits the Friends of the Library. Spectators are welcome.
Categories of objects for appraisal may include:
- Americana, including autographs and historical documents.
- Fine art, including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary.
- Furniture (usually smaller pieces are best).
- Ceramics, including figural pottery, vases, dishes, kitchenware and stoneware.
- Glassware, including marbles and souvenir items.
- Vintage photographs, including snapshots, tintypes, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
- Advertising, including posters, lithographed tin, paper and figural objects.
- Folk art, including carvings, quilts, weathervanes, windmill weights and "outsider" art.
- Assorted toys, including dolls (bisque, composition and plastic), windups and mechanical banks.
- Metalware, including iron, bronze, brass, pot metal, silver, silver plate.
- Clocks, including mantel, hanging and figural.
- Costume jewelry, including brooches, bracelets, earrings.
- Musical Instruments, including string, wind and reed instruments.
- Antique and vintage lighting of all kinds.
- Books.
- Sports Memorabilia.
Excluded items: all weapons, including swords and knives (though folding knives with advertising are accepted); traps (like leg-hold); Nazi memorabilia; coins and paper money; fine jewelry, including precious gems; Beanie Babies.