Articles filed under Home & Garden
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Easy home improvement projects for weekend warriorsMay 08, 2011 12:00 am - Few industries have grown as much in the last decade as the home improvement industry. Whereas it was once commonplace for homeowners to have a handyman on speed dial, n...
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Treasures in your attic: Watercolors certainly treasures, not trashMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. While cleaning out my closet recently, I came across two watercolor paintings that I had purchased many years ago. They are by Ranulph Debayeux Bye, and both meas...
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Treasures in your attic: Condition of sand pail kills its valueMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. My parents bought this sand pail for my younger brother in 1956. The outside and bottom are in good condition, but there is some rust on the inside and on the out...
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Treasures in your attic: 1930s Rhode desk sought after in today’s marketMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. This desk has been in my family for at least 50 years. An inscription in the middle drawer reads: “This piece is one of a limited group designed by Gilbert Rhode....
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Treasures in your attic: Bucking-bronco plates belong to bygone dinnerware eraMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. I collect dinnerware with Western themes and images. I own six of these brown plates with a tan body and decorated with a cowboy on a bucking bronco. They are mar...
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Treasures in your attic: Valuing toy merry-go-round, Ferris wheel in mint conditionMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. I have two metal mechanical toys that I received as a child in the late 1940s or ‘50s: a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, both manufactured by J. Chein & Co. As...
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Treasures in your attic: Letter’s value is personal, not monetaryMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - By Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson Q. During the early 1940s, I had a summer job working at Camp Tamiment in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. One of my jobs...
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Treasures in your attic: Letter about china set leaves out much informationMay 01, 2011 1:00 am - Q. I have my parents’ china and want to sell it, but I need an approximate price. I am sending a picture of a dinner plate and the mark on the back. There are 93 pie...
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Treasures in your attic: Value of Herman Perlman’s art isn’t increasingMay 01, 2011 12:00 am - Q. Several years ago, my husband and I were taken to the studio of Herman Perlman in the Washington D. C., area. He was a small man dressed in a long raincoat and ha...
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Barrington club has native plant saleApr 30, 2011 2:00 am - Conservation group’s yearly native plant sale returns this weekend