http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/index.html en-us Copyright 2008 Kovels. All rights Reserved. Kovels Customer Service webmaster@iproduction.com Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:53:20 GMT Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:53:20 GMT IPS - www.iproduction.com Q: I have a Staffordshire statue of Charles Wesley standing in a pulpit. It belonged to my grandmother. Is it valuable?Login for answer. http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/collectors_concerns/3649-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS Q: I bought a silver tray at a house. This is one of the marks on it. Can you tell me anything about it? Login for answer. http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/mystery_marks/3650-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS Watch out for fakes. Even museums are fooled. The famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has a "moon rock" that isn't from the moon. The U.S. ambassador had given the rock to the Dutch prime minister when the Apollo 11 astronauts visited the Netherlands in 1969. The former ambassador says he got it from the U.S. State Department and thought it was authentic. When the museum was given the rock in 1988, officials there called NASA and were told that the rock could be real. Now we know it's just a piece of petrified wood. It will stay on display as a "curiosity." http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/news_news_news/3651-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS The Rookwood Pottery factory in Cincinnati, fully restored, will host the art pottery auctions that have previously been held at Cincinnati Art Galleries. The art gallery will focus on paintings from not on, so the pottery offered to run the twice-yearly art pottery auctions. http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/news_news_news/3665-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS Maytag just traded a brand new washer and dryer for a 52-year-old pink washer and dryer owned by Jane Thompson of Sand Springs, Oklahoma. The latch broke on Jane's dryer, so it needed its first repair. The old machines will go in the Maytag museum. Jane says she wants her pink machines back if the new ones don't work as well as the old ones. http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/news_news_news/3666-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS Never put hot glass in cold water or cold glass in hot water. The temperature change can crack the glass. A friend once molded Jell-O in a cut glass bowl, kept in the refrigerator, served it, then put it into hot water in the sink. Her stomach sunk when she heard the bowl crack. http://www.kovels.com/issues/newsflash/1_169/tips_care_repair/3667-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS