| Viet Nam auctions antiques in Holland
Period antiques from the southernmost province of Ca Mau entered the first auction in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Jan. 29, said the provincial People's Committee.
The three-day auction will sell over 76,000 objects retrieved from a sunken ship. The antiques were mostly Chinese products made under the Qing dynasty during the 1723-1735 period.
Porcelain dishes, pots and statues which are unique in design, were made at the then famous kilns in Jiangxi and Guangdong of China.
The auctioned items were part of over 99,100 antiques lifted from the wreckage by the province in association with the Viet Nam History Museum.
An additional 32,500 relics from the wrecked ship were illegally taken by locals from nearby Binh Thuan province, costing the provincial administration over 13 billion VND (921,400 USD) to collect them from the population.
Take a stroll down memory lane
What it does: Offers antiques, collectible items and gifts. "It's a trip down memory lane," vendor spokeswoman Stella Camp said. Vendors exhibit and sell their merchandise in leased spaces or booths in a shopping mall of vintage collections. Furniture is a mix from Victorian to modern day. The inventory has toys, estate and costume jewelry, antiquated books, 1950s retro pieces, linens, novelty signs such as "Let Women Vote," beer brewer advertising, cast-iron tools and stained glass. Employees: Manager, four employees and three sales associates Company history: Keith Sharp founded Firehouse Antiques' "business concept" in October 2001 to assemble numerous vendors at one site, allowing "these people to be entrepreneurs." Camp represents dealers because she "wants them to do well.
Cops: Senior who stood up to stickup lucky to be alive
SALEM - Police say a Pickering Wharf antiques dealer who attacked a would-be robber Monday afternoon was fortunate he wasn't hurt or killed.
"Obviously, he took the law into his own hands," Lt. Conrad Prosniewski said of the clerk, Glenn Steen Johnsen, who refused to go along with the demands of a knife-wielding robber. "But this was a desperate individual, and the outcome could have been very different. We're not recommending others do something like this."
Johnsen, 62, apparently got the better of Steven Donarumo, a 27-year-old Danvers native who had recently been released from prison, where he served part of a 21/2- to three-year prison term for armed robbery.
On Monday afternoon, Salem police were called about two men fighting outside of the Antiques Gallery, an antique cooperative where Johnsen sold furniture.
Week of February 9, 2007
Jacksonvilles history is an integral part of the citys economic future and officials want to accentuate the positives to nurture future growth.
Ironically, the history-rich city - the third largest city in the Little Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), with a population in excess of 30,0000 - has managed to provide a small, hometown environment for transplanted residents and visitors brought to the bedroom community by the Little Rock Air Force Base.
The fact that Jacksonvilles business district and most of its hotel industry has mushroomed in the area surrounding the main entrance of the air base identifies it as a major life force for the community.
The air base and the citys industrial park sprang up within the footprint of the former Arkansas Ordnance Plant (AOP), credited for manufacturing over 85 percent of the fuses and detonators used by Allied forces in World War II.
AntiquesYes.com Presents Major Architectural Auction
AntiquesYes.com presents a major Internet auction of architectural antiques that will include a sneak on line preview image gallery and several Early Bird auction lots that will sell while the auction is setting up. The auction will offer everything from stained glass, garden statuary, and antique lighting to vintage plumbing, vintage tiles, and vintage reference books.AntiquesYes.com, the Internet auction site famous for quality, service, and record setting prices, is presenting an important Architectural Antiques Auction set to open on Tuesday, February 20, beginning at 9 pm EST. There will be a sneak in the WebWilson.com Image Galleries that will be updated continuously in the week prior to the auction opening. There will also be several Early Bird lots to wet your beak while waiting for the auction to open.
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