Walnutts Antiques » On the Net https://walnutts.com Rare Collectibles & Unique Antiques Mon, 05 Oct 2015 04:32:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 New York Times Looks Back On A Year In The Auctions https://walnutts.com/2012/01/new-york-times-looks-back-on-a-year-in-the-auctions/ https://walnutts.com/2012/01/new-york-times-looks-back-on-a-year-in-the-auctions/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:11:53 +0000 http://walnutts.com/?p=287
A tintype of Billy the Kidd, the only known one in existence, that fetched $2.3 million in 2011

Eve Kahn, resident Antiques columnist for The New York Times, reflects on the 6 most intriguing auctions of 2011.

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Personally, I haven’t yet finished my own list of resolutions, but perhaps I’ll find something inspiration in Woody Guthrie‘s from 1942 (though, most likely not):

found via Boing Boing

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Lifestyle blog Even*Cleveland posted two stunning examples of daguerreotypes of the Moon on her site this month. Excerpted with each are selections from Jonathan Whipple’s The Schoolmate (1854), a tome wherein he describes for future astronomers the best way in which to photograph the moon.

Probably most of our readers will like to hear of this remarkable experiment in daguerreotyping. This wonderful invention has been used for years to amuse the public, and minister to our affections, by presenting faithful portraits of the absent or lost ones. It has now been fairly pressed into the service of the science of astronomy, and has been eminently successful.

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