| Dealers put on their thinking caps to attract new buyers
In reading the Fragments section of the February issue of the Maine Antique Digest, I was drawn to an article titled ''Attracting New Collectors.'' The article includes a press release appearing on www.dollyjohnsonantiqueshow.com for the Dolly Johnson 44th Annual Antiques Show March 10-11 in the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Owner J.J. Frambes knows how to create a hook that will draw customers and media attention. The show's hook is 50 dealers offering items priced especially for new collectors. In addition, the Fort Worth Antiquarian Club will curate an exhibit featuring items from private collections titled ''Affordable Good Things.''
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Musical high-flier tunes up for West End
Now, aged only 26, he is musical director for a touring production of a re-worked production of Victoria Wood's comic musical, Acorn Antiques.He has just completed a week's run at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, where many of his friends from his days in amateur theatre in west Norfolk came to see the show and meet up with him afterwards.Nigel, taking a break at his parents' house in Ely, said: "It has been really good to see so many of my old friends from my days with the Watlington Players. "It was lovely to see people like Kate Carpenter, who encouraged me in the junior Players and also my old head teacher Sue Davies from Watlington Primary School."In his role as musical director, Nigel worked closely with Victoria in October last year, re-writing the composition. Five new songs were also added and new arrangements introduced.Nigel said: "It was the most creative work I have done in my life and it was interesting working with Victoria because she not only wrote and directed the show, but she wrote the music as well.
Second repair shop sign is stolen
One sign's back and another one's gone. Just days after an antique sign stolen from a Heights-area auto repair shop was returned to its owners, thieves ripped off an identical sign from a second garage in the same neighborhood. "My mechanic read about the first theft and came in today to tell me we'd better take down our sign," Bill Kindall, owner of Opersall and Kindall Auto Truck Repair, said Monday. "But when we went out to remove it, I'll be darned. It already was gone." Taken was a porcelain-on-steel, red, white and blue sign issued by the Garagemen's Association of Texas. The 5-foot-by-3-foot sign features red stripes on a white background and the words, "You Get Personalized Service Where You See This Emblem." The Kindall garage is at 2624 Yale, just a couple of miles from the site of the first theft.
Do you know what it's worth?
Most family trees have a collector in the branches. It's that relative with a lonely passion for coins or stamps or model trains. When they go on to that big antique market in the sky, they often leave behind an assortment of items that the family may want to sell or divide among heirs - with no idea of what the items are worth. That's where David Kress of Naperville comes in. .
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