Into Antiques?

On ebay you'll find over 100 categories covering the Medieval and Renaissance periods, through Georgian, Regency and Victorian, to Edwardian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

Antique Dealers in California

Linda Stamberger

Linda Stamberger, author of "Antiquing In Florida", is a Florida expert and freelance writer of many genres. Visit this site to read her articles - some of which are available for purchase - as is her book.


Brooks Novelty Antiques and Records

Brooks Novelty is an all-vinyl record store. We specialize in: jukeboxes, vintage soda machines, antique slot machines, pin balls, arcade games, neon clocks and signs, rare concert posters, old advertising signs and much more!


The Antique Company

Established in the late 1900's, we occupy a huge corner building with a small garden area that leads to another 1000 sq foot store (called TAC) that contains our Mid Century collection.


Vintage Westclox

Westclox photo identification gallery and history and information of clocks, watches and other timepieces. This site primarily displays American clocks made by Westclox that were made from the early 1900's up to about the 1960's.


Antique Appraisals On-Line

We are one of the country's largest, oldest, most qualified and respected appraisal services. The majority of our appraisals are estate and personal property evaluations for valuation documentation purposes. However, we have evaluated goods and personal property for natural disaster losses (hurricanes), theft, fire, freight and shipping damage after the loss has occurred.


Connoisseur Antiques

Featuring fine antique furniture, Connoisseur Antiques is a Los Angeles Antique Furniture Showroom specializing in antique clocks and mirrors, European and French antiques, Antique Lighting, Chandeliers, Sconces, Armoires and much more.


Liz's Antique Hardware

Antique Hardware is the backbone of our business. We offer a complete selection of door, window and furniture hardware, lighting and accessories circa 1890 to 1970.


San Francisco Antique and Design Mall

San Francisco Antique and Design Mall is the largest antique mall in northern California. We opened our doors in October 1997 with 75 dealers and today we have over 200 of San Francisco's most professional antique specialists.


Ambiance Antiques

Importer of 18th and 19th Century French Antiques


C'est La Vie Antiques

European Antique and Accessories in San Diego, CA.


Lang Antiques

We carry a large selection of fine antique jewelry, antique rings & antique engagement rings. We also have vintage estate jewelry, vintage estate rings & vintage estate engagement rings from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Edwardian & Art Deco style periods.


Once in a Blue Moon Online Thrift Store

We are an online thrift store featuring new, used, and unusual items.


Sunday, June 3, 2012

Presented by Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Inc - Antiques and Arts Weekly

Presented by Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Inc - Antiques and Arts Weekly

Presented by Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Inc

ON VIEW: Thursday,May 31,2012 » 10 am to 8 pm • Friday,June 1,2012 » 10 am to 4 pm • Saturday,June 2,2012 » 9 am to 3 pm

Takes place between 6/2/2012 and 6/4/2012

At , 908 York Road, Towson, MD, 21204


Antique and Quality Reproduction Furniture;American and Continental Paintings and Prints;Staffordshire and Delftware Ceramics;Chinese Export Porcelain; Art Glass;Sterling Silver;Jewelry;Oriental Rugs;Books;and Guns To be sold in three sessions at our gallery

Visit our website for terms and additional details.

908 York Road • Towson, Maryland 21204 •

(800) 272-3145 • Fax (410) 828-0875

http://antiques.alexcooper.com

MD DLLR #2503


Source: antiquesandthearts.com

Antique tax fails to support modern necessity - Scranton Times-Tribune

The word "crisis" has become a tedious cliché, much overused and abused by those for whom every problem becomes a looming catastrophe. But the unparalleled challenges now confronting the financing of Pennsylvania's public education system do comprise a genuine crisis, one that if left unsolved threatens to transform Pennsylvania - educationally, economically, culturally and even socially - into a permanent backwater.

Across the commonwealth dedicated teachers are being furloughed, vital programs are being curtailed, schools are being shut down, and an entire generation of students may be losing their access to a quality education. That's just the good news.

Worse is that the furloughs, the cutting and the closings are all going to accelerate in the coming months and years, bringing further assaults upon Pennsylvania's public education system. The consequent damage to the quality of education, the future of our children, and their ability to compete in the emergent global economy cannot be exaggerated.

And who, or what monster, shall we blame for this monstrous calamity? Are evil teachers unions behind this looming disaster, or perhaps corrupt politicians, or even grasping school boards? No. Neither these nor any of the "usual suspects" can take the fall for this one. Our financial crisis is not due to greedy teachers, incompetent administrators, angry taxpayers, manipulating political parties or even super-PACs.

In fact, the villain behind our educational woes isn't even a person or institution; it's a tax that most of us are all too familiar with: the real estate property tax, better known as simply the "property tax."

What about the simple property tax is so atrocious, so flawed and so defective that we ascribe to it most of the contemporary problems of financing public education? That's a good question, one to which entire libraries are devoted.

The short answer produced by legions of public finance experts is that the property tax is grotesquely unsuited to modern times. It is unfair (regressive), expensive to administer, difficult to assess accurately, disconnected from the modern economy, and politically repugnant to most taxpayers. These defects and many more are the bitter fruits of the much-hated property tax. Of all America's major taxes, including the income and sales taxes, the property tax is the worst by any measure you care to use.

But bad as the property tax is, its egregious faults are only part of the problem. Even worse is that we are using this most flawed of taxes to finance perhaps the most important function of government: education. We are trying to educate our children on the back of a creaky 19th-century antique that barely did the job then, faltered badly in the 20th century, and is now failing spectacularly as we move through the second decade of the 21st.

Must we watch helplessly as our proud tradition of public education withers away, the victim of inert political leadership and ossified public policies? Absolutely not!

Two things seem eminently sensible.

First, we should adopt expeditiously a tax system that finances 21st-century education with a 21st-century tax. One of the most promising concepts being discussed now is state Rep. Jim Cox's (R-Berks) bill known as the Property Tax Independence Act, which would replace the school property tax by increasing the state's personal income tax from 3.07 to 4 percent, and expanding and increasing the state's sales and use tax from 6 to 7 percent.

Second, we should avoid throwing out the baby with the bath water and recognize that the property tax - for all its limitations - is best fitted to financing Pennsylvania local government. Originally, property tax revenues were used almost exclusively to finance local government functions like public safety and public health. Only over time was the property tax base hijacked to support more and more local education, so that now as much as 80 percent goes to the schools. We should stop using the property tax to finance schools and instead use it only to support non-school local government expenditures. This is where the property tax works best.

Neither of these steps requires overall increased taxes. Cox's bill and others proposed over the years would not raise taxes but rather would shift tax burdens from the property tax to a tax more suited to modern times and the needs of public education. Nevertheless, any legislation that envisions tax changes, even tax shifting, will be controversial. Indeed, earlier efforts dating back three decades to bring tax reform to Pennsylvania were rife with dissension.

But let's not kid ourselves. The choice is not between change and no change. Change, almost all of it bad, is happening across the state almost every day as Pennsylvania's school districts adapt to the new realities imposed by relying on the property tax to finance education. The real choice is between having a choice about the future of state public education and having that choice imposed upon us by doing nothing.


Source: thetimes-tribune.com

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