| Antiques Show Draws the Curious
For more than an hour, Ron and Janice Meyer waited patiently Sunday afternoon in the cavernous Exhibition Hall at the Clark County Events Center at the Fairgrounds. They lugged a century-old violin, a tiny ladies pistol owned by Ron's great-grandmother, and a metal contraption that appeared to be a meat grinder. Like hundreds of others attending the second annual Clark County Antique & Collectible Show, the Meyers plunked down $4 for the chance to have an appraiser look over their treasurers. Why? "Just curious," Janice said. Appraiser Don Jensen of Edmonds first examined the bow and then the violin, all the while engaging the couple in conversation about the instrument's origins. "Her dad learned how to play that out in the potato fields of North Dakota," Ron said.
With a little help, an Apalachin man identifies a rare find
Long ago, there was this guy (probably) who made a spear or knife (probably) and then went hunting (probably). But then something happened: "It seems he lost his knife," said John Krein. "Probably." The spear point was found by the 69-year-old Apalachin retiree in 1965 while he was working on his lawn in the backyard. "It was right there, practically on the surface, and I was grabbing it with the corner of my digger and then it kind of popped up," he recalled, of the day he found it. It has sat atop his dresser as a curiosity for most of the years since, like a pretty rock or souvenir from travel. It was one of those dust collectors that you glance at from time to time, if that. "Over the years, I've kept it on the corner of my night table or the dresser," Krein said.
NYC antiques dealer sues to shoo homeless people from his shop
NEW YORK (AP) _ In a clash of classes on a posh shopping strip, an antiques dealer has filed a $1 million lawsuit against four homeless people, seeking to keep them off the sidewalk in front of his shop.
The lawsuit, filed this week, seeks a court order to keep three men and one woman at least 100 feet away from Karl Kemp & Associates. They are named only as John Doe, Bob Doe, John Smith and Jane Doe.
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New York retailer sues vagrants for sitting in front of his store
NEW YORK -- With its high-end shops such as Cartier, Prada and Gucci, Manhattan's Madison Avenue is no place for the homeless. At least, that's the view of Karl Kemp, owner of Karl Kemp and Associates Antiques, who has launched a $1-million lawsuit against four unnamed vagrants who have sought to ward off New York's recent bone-chilling temperatures by warming themselves over a grate in front of his shop. According to the lawsuit, the vagrants -- identified as John Smith, John Doe, Bob Doe and Jane Doe -- are driving away the store's well-heeled customers, causing Kemp to lose sales. In jockeying to feel the effects of the warm air rising from the small rectangular storefront grate this week, the four vagrants have impeded street views of Kemp's current window display, the centrepiece of which is a $26,000 19th-century mahogany Empire bench from Vienna, complete with lion-head carvings and cream-coloured upholstery.
BF Avery unique in collection
"I like the oddballs," said the 88-year-old tractor collector, his eyes on his three-wheeled, deep red 1946 B.F. Avery tractor. The tractor was the only B.F. Avery among the 51 antique tractors on exhibit Saturday at Sandburg Mall, where the Maple City Antique Tractor Association is having its annual Mall Tractor Show. The show continues today. Most of the tractors are John Deere, International Harvester or Ford. A few were Allis-Chalmers, which is the brand of the first tractor Page's family owned. .
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