Armacost Antiques Shows Announces Antique Newsletter

As I mentioned a few days ago in my posts about keeping appraisal websites current with technology and content, Bob James, president of Armacost Antiques Shows has developed a monthly online antiques newsletter. This is in addition to the basic website and podcasts about antiques currently avaialble. Bob has done a excellent job in redeveloping the old static website into a more user friendly, web 2.0 product to act as a vehicle to promote antiques and his stable of antique shows.

The newsletter, entitled Early Edition will be a free publication delivered by email or available on the Armacost Antiques Shows website. Past issues will be archived. The headlines from the March issue include:

What's Up Coming Attractions

• History's Heavyweights: Vincent van Gogh, Isaac Newton and Paul Revere to Headline Aspen's Newest Art and Antiques Show

• What Determines the Value of a Painting?

• America's Finest Setting for an Antiques Show

Appreciating Antiques

• "Antiques Are Getting Younger: The New Collectables"

• "Green Antiques of Various Kinds of Worth the Long Green"

• "The New Collector: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Drawings"
  

Current Market Conditions

• "Is Mid-Century Modern Decorating Dead?"

Living with Antiques

• "At Your Service"

Investing in Antiques

• "Antiques Market Hitting Stride During Tough Times"

• "Antiques Turn Out to Be True Treasures"
  

People

• "Antiques Uncovered in Colorado Springs Back Yard"

The newsletter is professionally put together with some very interesting content for the appraiser and dealer. It is also a quick and easy read. I recommend you sign up for the monthly delivery of the newsletter, there is some excellent and relevant content. In the February issue fellow appraiser and dealer Doug Constant, AAA has a short piece on helping identify American case pieces. Many of the tips the seasoned appraiser may already know, but sometimes picking up a single new tip or technique can be extremely helpful, especailly for the generalist appraiser. I also have a short piece in the April edition blending traditional antiques with new and mid century modern.

Visit the Armacost Antique Shows website by clicking HERE, while there sign up for the newsletter and also listen to some of the interesting podcasts on antiques by many well respected dealers and collectors. Francine Proulx, ASA and I did a podcast for Bob about a year ago on appraising.