Antique News

The season finale of 10th annual Music On Main Street concert series will be Friday with a classic car show and a performance by the group, Tuxedo Junction.

ANTIQUE: Cukurcuma is hosting over 150 antique shops. A candelabra engraved with the official signature of an Ottoman sultan is tough to find anywhere else.

“There are some wonderful antiques shops in Paris and London and New York, but there is no other place in the world where you can see so many fine antiques within a five-block radius as on Royal Street”

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“You just want to make sure [art dealers] are telling the whole story”

Before an art dealer could even hang a painting for sale at Palm Beach America's International Fine Art & Antique Fair, more than 40 museum curators, art experts and scholars from across the country and worldwide inspected each of the almost 400,000 pieces for stolen items and fraud.

The task began three days before the fair opened Friday and included the help of The Art Loss Register, a not-for-profit New York-based organization that tracks stolen and missing artwork, antiques and other collectibles. Read more

“The policy of exchanging items resolves a tough confrontation without hurting”

With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and collectors around the ... via The Herald