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NEWS ABOUT: collecting

collecting stories: 8 news summaries

(Newser) - Herb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • museum • collecting • art collector • art donations

 Collectors 
 Hunt for 
 Obamabilia 
 Treasures 

Experts struggle to pick future keepers from sea of merchandise

Feb 17, 09 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Collectors are sifting through a sea of Barack Obama memorabilia searching for items that will be the gems of the future instead of tomorrow's junk, the Washington Post reports. Vast quantities of knick-knacks, ranging from dancing presidential dolls to Obama mints, have left even experts stumped about what to buy.... More »

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Barack Obama • collecting • memorabilia • collectible • souvenir • President Obama

 Olympic Collectors Go for Gold 

Medals, torches, and sweaty uniforms fetch top dollar

Aug 8, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 2008 Olympics have barely begun and collectors are already jockeying for possession of Beijing memorabilia. But serious shoppers are bypassing the hundreds of official knickknacks, hoping instead to score big-ticket items such as medals and sweaty uniforms, Portfolio reports. It's serious business: A gold medal from the 1904... More »

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China • eBay • 2012 London Olympics • 2008 Beijing Olympics • collecting • sports collectibles • collectible

US Rations Silver Dollars as Investors Scoop Them Up

Soaring silver demand means mint can't make coins fast enough

May 23, 08 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investors and coin collectors are hopping mad at the US Mint for placing quotas on purchasing silver dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. The price of silver has more than doubled in the last three years, and investors looking to cash in on the boom—and avoid the stock and... More »

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collecting • coins • US Mint • metal prices • silver

Cellphones
Sound Last Call for British Icon

Famous red booths disappear from
English streets

Mar 24, 08 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s iconic red phone booths are going extinct in a country where cellphones outnumber people, USA Today reports. British Telecom is shrinking the overall number of pay phones and replacing the red booths with modern ones that double as wireless hotspots. With just 12,700 of the originals left... More »

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London • cell phones • collecting • Britain • telephone • pay phones • phone booth • British Telephone • British Telecom

Prototype Coins Go for $30M

Anonymous buyer pays $30 million for rare coin collection

Nov 18, 07 9:53 PM CST
(Newser) - An anonymous buyer spent more than $30 million on a collection of about 1,000 coins that never made it to circulation, the AP reports. The rare “pattern coins,” dated from 1792 to 1942, are trial designs the US Mint rejected before producing them for circulation. Those coins... More »

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collecting • coins • US Mint

Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit  

Russian collectors get nostalgic for commie propaganda art, bucolic peasant scenes

Apr 23, 07 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nostalgia for the good old days of the USSR is in—at least for Russian art collectors. These days, communist-inspired paintings of peasant scenes and heroic workers have acquired a uniquely capitalist hipness. "The art was propaganda of happiness," says Yuri Tyukhtin, a banker who runs an art... More »

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Russia • communism • propaganda • art • collecting • USSR • capitalism • Soviet • art collector

Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?

It's all the rage in Europe, but will Chinese-themed art lose its market power?

Apr 20, 07 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a year of high excitement and higher prices, Chinese artists are hot at influential European fairs. But the bubble may have grown too fast, and Portfolio's Alexandra Wolfe reports on speculation that it's about to burst. One curator says Chinese art is "a consumer category, not a collector... More »

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China • art market • Chinese art • art • collecting • art collector

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