Antique Show set for weekend

Antique hunters will relish the gathering of vendors that will be on hand at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday for the annual Spring Antique Show and Sale put on by the downtown district.
The event will feature over 35 dealers from all over the West from Oregon, Nevada, Northern and Southern California and Arizona according to event organizer Diane Putman and will cater to a wide variety of visitors from all over the area.
KPAY's radio host John Humphries will be on hand for evaluations on Saturday only and in addition all the downtown antique stores will be open and within walking distance of the auditorium to provide additional shopping opportunities.
Putman said the dealers and stores feature a wide variety of goods from sterling silver plated silverware, furniture, pottery, glass, Depression glass, elegant glass and baubles of all kinds.

Rare Collection of Antique Maps Unveiled at Northwestern

Established in 1954, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in Chicago is said to have the largest collection of African art, history and literature in the world. Recently, it unveiled a collection of antique African maps created as far back as the 15th century.
David Easterbrook, the curator of the library, says that the early cartographers who created these maps based their data mainly on anecdotal information from travelers. They also used the limited literature of European scholars, and antiquities of Greek and Roman scholars who had written of, or traveled to, Africa.
“They were taking text and turning it into something visual," he said.
Easterbrook adds that the maps cover in particular North Africa and Algeria, Madagascar and other islands, and a few city plans.

Find one-of-a-kind collectibles at Zany Coffee and Collectibles

"We have things you don't normally find at your everyday Walmart," Mary Szanyi-Coffey, owner of Zany Coffee and Collectibles, said.Zany Coffee, opened in November 2006, carries a vast array of unique collectibles such as Looney Tunes characters, Peanuts, Star Trek, Star Wars, classic cartoon characters and McDonalds character figurines. The store also sells handmade jewelry and artwork from local artists as well as music boxes from the San Francisco Music Box Company, Crazy Mountain Arts, Funko Toys, Silkstone Barbie dolls and consignment collectibles.As the name states, they also are a coffee shop carrying cappuccinos, lattes, mochas, hot chocolate, smoothies and frappes as well as a small selection of baked goods.

A new way of selling the old

Antiques are big business - and there is no antiques business bigger than Tomlinsons. which has become a shrine for connoisseurs the world over. RON GODFREY, business editor, visits the North Yorkshire honey pot for home makers and aficionados alike.
IF TOMLINSONS' 75,000 sq ft warehouse is a North Yorkshire cathedral dedicated to the thrilling thingamajigs of history, then Sarah Worrall is its high priestess.
You only have to hear her intoning her litany of love for a madly beautiful (or is it beautifully mad? ) George III tilt-top breakfast table with crossbanded edge on a pedestal and four reeded supports on brass hairy paw casters to know that she speaks the language of antiques fluently and with passion.
Such is her reverie within that mighty rectangle set against the rural sky outside Tockwith, that it is almost as though the £2,495 plus VAT price tag is an afterthought.