| Go on treasure hunt at antiques show
HANOVER -- Hunt for treasure at the 101st New Year Antiques Show at the Birchwood Manor, 111 N. Jefferson Road, Whippany, Jan. 26-28. There will be more than 200 exhibit booths featuring a variety of quality items. In addition to an array of offerings including early American and English furniture, silver, art glass, jewelry and more, there will be appraisal and expert glass repair clinics, porcelain and pottery restoration, china mending, and vintage trunk restoration. There also will be a diverse selection of 19th- and early 20th-century American and European paintings. Lighting of all kinds -- crystal chandeliers, wall sconces, table, floor and desk lamps and more -- will be featured in various lighting exhibits. Griffon's Medieval Manuscripts will offer investment-grade illuminated manuscripts dating from the 14th to 18th centuries.
Trade shows arming for war of 'art'
An art show by any other name would sell as many trinkets. Or would it? Maybe the Palm Beach Jewelry & Antique Show doesn't want to take any chances. It has plugged the word "art" into its name to become the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show. .
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The Gold King Mine outside of Jerome had a close call Tuesday morning. A fire broke out destroying the sawmill area and a sheep trailer nearby. But a quick response from four local fire agencies kept the fire contained and saved the old buildings, gift shop and antique cars. Firefighters and equipment from Jerome Fire Department, Cottonwood and Clarkdale fire departments and Verde Valley Fire District responded to the fire that broke about noon.
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Girls have their own sweet little home
When I was little I decked out my dollhouse with itty-bitty cabbage-rose wallpaper, white eyelet curtains and bedspreads fashioned from dainty antique handkerchiefs. I owned a backyard playhouse, too, a teeny metal hut with a cheerily painted suburban exterior that included faux windows, shutters and window boxes. But I dreamed of a real playhouse with quirky furniture, art and plenty of my decorating color of choice: pink. Donna Christian gave that gift to her daughters. The Davis Islands mother of three girls - Allie, 7, Gabby, 3, and Jessie, 2 -- wanted to spiff up the interior of their playhouse and turn it into the kind of place where imagination and girl power rule. "Before, it was just a wooden playhouse and I thought it would be nice to make it interesting, to make it much more like a real house," Christian recalls.
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