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From what

are Modern Collectibles

 

Can be very exciting and it is always possible to start something new even with contemporary items like hand painted anniversary cards by children especially here in Canada with its multiplicity of national heritages, each adding beauty with its different culture and specialties. Beauty to me being the main reason for the acquisition of items, something with which one can live with for many years, each year passing with beauty bringing increased value.

  

Choosing an Item to Collect

 

Investment in Antiques can be a very satisfying adjunct to stocks and shares, the right pieces can be lived with for many years increasing in value and giving visual pleasure together with thoughts of increasing value. I have antiques that I have lived with for the past forty years plus, each with its own story, feeling and satisfaction. Here I found an antique I bought not as an antique but as an item to beautify my living room in an old house built in 1887, which my wife and I had just bought.

 

I have a Collotype Print by an unknown master of art, I have many these prints (about 300) all by the old masters, Caravaggio, Guardi, Canaletto, De Pisis and many others. I went to Rome Poligraphico to learn the art of producing Collotype this was in the 60’s, but all I learnt was that it was an art in which I could not emulate the skill of its practitioners there. But for all that it was another learning curve that gave me an insight into art and its many areas of beauty for which I was very grateful.

 

We bought old things to match the house itself after we had modernized all the utilities. A sculpture I liked a Parian Bust of Ophelia I bought in the Rome Market, I could not understand how it got there and asked the seller how he came to have her, he told me that a lady had come into the market that morning and sold it to him, probably a resident short of money it was still very close to war ending. What you have seen up to now is mainly an introduction to tell you who I am and to show that I know my subject, in order that you can begin to have confidence and credibility in me.  Now let me begin to give you antique information

 

Markets Change

 

Unfortunately clocks are among those whose market has changed, today good prices are still paid for some clocks, the ones that were made by known important makers of clocks with there name signature inscribed on the item. Other clocks can still get a good price but one that has not increased with the general rise in value of most antiques.

 

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