Collecting News

Panel to discuss art The Fort Worth Art Dealers Association is hosting a panel discussion, 'Get Smart About Collecting Art,' at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center tonight.

Lynne Alpert's amazing wine collection rests on makeshift shelves built by her husband.

Stamp collecting is a long established hobby but the offshoots are becoming ever more popular too.

A press release from the American Philatelic Society announces, "A pilot program for more than 100 preschool students in five Head Start Classrooms in central Pennsylvania has completed its first year.

One of the most popular collector items today is glass. In particular many people seek out pressed glass.

When Donna Stark saw the medium-sized beetle one evening in 2007, she wasn't sure what it was.

I'll trade you your child's collection of baseball cards for my 7-year-old's stash of rocks.

Turn a hunt for antiques into a getaway on the almost 100-kilometre stretch known as Indiana's Antique Alley.

For almost 20 years, the youth-services manager for the Terrebonne Parish Library System has collected more than 150 Barbie dolls a ' a majority of which are in mint condition and original packaging.

When Carl Wedlund worked in the canneries, he pretty much did what his supervisor told him - he drove his boss around town, made coffee and cleaned bathrooms and storage areas.

Meet Naseem Hrab, who finished in third place in Canadaa TMs first national book-collecting contest .

Agood hitter in baseball gets a hit only three out of every 10 at bats. Collecting your business receivables can feel the same way: small recovery rates and a lot of strikeouts - especially during a recession.

Meet Charlotte Ashley, the winner of Canadaa TMs first national book-collecting contest .

Posters first were produced in 1869 in Paris. They were not sold but used as advertising pieces in stores, theaters and museums.

One day after the death of Michael Jackson, Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries was besieged with calls asking what his memorabilia is worth.

If you have ever been on a cruise, the lavishness of the trip is a special feeling you want to relive forever.

It's curious how amateur enthusiasts obtain obsessions for collectables. Seeing a row of old but working radio sets for sale in an old junk shop more than 40 years ago triggered an all-consuming interest in antique wirelesses in Wang Lianxi, a retired factory worker .

Ever since the world began, humans were born to get busy. This is the main reason why most of the people are engaged into different activities life sports and different hobbies especially if they have nothing to do.

Why are we asking this now? Research released today has shown that two-thirds of British people would cross the road to escape the attentions of a street collector or "chugger". The poll, by Leap Anywhere, showed that over a quarter of Britons had lied to chuggers, telling them they had already given money to a colleague.

Several Western New York debt collection companies are shut down while one of the men who ran the companies is under arrest.