World’s smallest seastar found at Museum Victoria

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW presents Unique Antiques, a Special Edition showcasing ghoulish treats and weirdly wonderful one-of-a-kind treasures from the series’ first decade.

SPINE-TINGLING HIGHLIGHTS

• Chair once belonging to Chang Boker, the owner’s great-grandfather and half of the nineteenth-century’s world famous conjoined twins, Chang and Eng. Appraised by ROADSHOW’s Keno twins for $10,000 to $12,000
• Collection of tin cans salvaged from a nineteenth-century dump, valued at $10,000 to $14,000
• Weller pottery humidor in the shape of a skull, estimated to be worth $2,000 to $3,000
• Nineteenth-century collection of jewelry made out of hair, appraised for $4,000 to $6,000
• Elk antler chair and buffalo hide "woolies" chaps, valued at $7,000 to $10,000

CELEBRATE STEIG IN NOVEMBER

 PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES

MARK THE CENTENNIAL OF NEW YORKER CARTOONIST AND

CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR WILLIAM STEIG

NEW YORK, NY – Celebrate Steig in November marks the centennial of William Steig’s birth with an array of programs and activities for all ages taking place during the month of November throughout New York City.  William Steig is known for his brilliant cartoons for The New Yorker and his beloved children’s books such as Shrek!  As part of this celebration, The Jewish Museum is presenting a major exhibition of the artist’s work including over 190 original drawings, many of which have never before been on display.  From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig is on view at The Jewish Museum from November 4, 2007 through March 16, 2008.

Participants in a special Celebrate Steig program for schools will receive free William Steig books donated by Farrar Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers and Square Fish.  A total of 2,250 books have been donated to The Jewish Museum for this purpose including 1,000 copies of Abel’s Island and 250 copies of The One and Only Shrek from Square Fish, and 1,000 copies of Doctor De Soto from Farrar Straus and Giroux.  Those classes who participate in The Jewish Museum’s Steig school program will receive one copy of The One and Only Shrek for their classroom or school library.  Each class will also receive a set of either Doctor De Soto (grades K to 2) or Abel’s Island (grades 3 and 4) for the students.  It is expected that approximately 100 classes, grades K to 4, from public, parochial and independent schools in the New York metropolitan area will participate. 

Other highlights of Celebrate Steig in November include a free November 5^th workshop for school and public librarians, a free November 29^th educator workshop, and a William Steig Storybook Family Day on Sunday, November 11^th from noon to 4 pm, where the DreamWorks’ Shrek character will appear and the first 250 families to arrive that day will receive free Shrek DVDs.

At branches of the New York Public Library, free Steig story time activity sheets will be given out to children visiting those libraries.

In addition, The Jewish Museum will be presenting a panel discussion on November 15^th at 6:30 pm, with panelists Roger Angell, a writer and fiction editor for The New Yorker; Edward Sorel, a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair; Holly McGhee, William Steig’s longtime literary agent; and moderator Lee Lorenz, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, former Art Editor of the magazine, and author of The World of William Steig.

Additional program details and information regarding reservations or tickets are available at www.thejewishmuseum.org/celebratesteig. 

Celebrate Steig in November is presented in cooperation with Farrar Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers and Square Fish, imprints of Macmillan.

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The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will open its newest permanent exhibition, “America by Air,” on Saturday, Nov. 17. With a dramatic array of artifacts, photographs, artwork and interactives—many at full scale—the gallery will tell in sweeping detail the story of passenger air travel in the United States, from the early attempts to form airlines only a decade after Kitty Hawk to the commercial challenges and technical sophistication of the 21st-century jet age.

The exhibition will show how paying passengers got off the ground after the development of air mail; why the experience of air travel changed throughout the years from a luxurious adventure to a less-glamorous necessity; and how current events will affect the way people fly for years to come.

As part of the gallery experience, visitors will be able to cross a 30-foot-high pedestrian bridge and step inside the forward fuselage of a retired Northwest Boeing 747, getting a close-up look at the cockpit along with the view from the upper deck of the wide-body airliner that became an icon of the “jet set” era.

Also featured in the new exhibition will be a life-size interactive cockpit simulation of an Airbus A320 taking off and landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The graphics seen through the windshield show the nation’s capital and its landmarks in remarkable detail.

With the help of a specially built platform installed in the gallery, visitors looking up at the hanging Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor will be able to feel and hear the continuous heavy vibrations that rattled travelers aboard the classic “Tin Goose” beginning in the mid-1920s. Next to the platform will be a life-size profile of the airplane with a cutaway showing the interior seating.

“Passenger air travel is so ingrained in our culture, it’s natural that we take its development and success for granted,” museum director Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey said. “‘America by Air’ reminds us how no other machine but the airliner put the far corners of the world within reach for so many. It’s impossible to imagine modern life without it, and it’s hard not to relate instantly to this new gallery.” 

The exhibition will be divided into four thematic sections: Early Years, 1914-1927; Expansion and Innovation, 1927-1941; Piston-Engine Era, 1941-1958; and Jet Age, 1958-Today.

Among the many interactive features, animated maps on large, high-definition screens will present a compressed day-in-the-life of today’s complex airline routes and how they can be affected by bad weather. The same displays will show visitors how air traffic control cleared the skies over the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, in just a few unprecedented hours.

Visitors also will be able to spin and compare models of piston and jet engines and test the differences between control systems from simple lever-and-wires to hydraulics to NASA-developed, computer-based, fly-by-wire technology.

Many of the exhibition’s interactive features will be available on the museum’s Web site, www.nasm.si.edu.
In addition to the 747 nose and the forward fuselage of a DC-7, whose interior also will be open to the public, the exhibition will display seven complete airplanes to represent the formative years of air transportation in the United States: the Ford Tri-Motor; a Curtiss JN-4D Jenny; a Pitcairn PA-5 Mailwing; a Fairchild FC-2; a Northrop Alpha; a Boeing 247-D; and a Douglas DC-3.

While most of the aircraft will be displayed hanging from ceiling trusses, the Jenny will be set much closer to eye level on supports just outside an improvised airmail hut. Surplus Jennys from World War I became the first aircraft used in regular service by the U.S. Post Office Department. The museum’s JN-4D, in pristine, unrestored condition, was last displayed by the Smithsonian during the 1960s.

Several key passenger airplane engines from the 1920s to the 1970s will be displayed in the gallery, including the trailblazing 1926 Wright Whirlwind and a Rolls-Royce RB.211 high-bypass turbofan.

The exhibition also will spotlight some of the personalities who turned air travel into an industry and a culture. Visitors will learn of the less-heralded work of Charles Lindbergh, who helped chart some of the nation’s initial airline routes. The gallery also remembers pioneers like Ellen Church, who suggested putting nurses like her in the sky as the first stewardesses; and pilot Marlon Green, who broke the major carriers’ whites-only barrier in 1965 with a discrimination suit against Continental Airlines.

Highlights from the museum’s extensive air travel poster collection will illustrate how airline advertisements initially focused on issues of safety and comfort but—as passengers grew increasingly savvy—gradually shifted their focus to destinations.

“America by Air” also recalls how the federal government’s role in commercial air travel evolved from establishing air traffic control and early regulation aimed at encouraging growth to creating valuable technologies through the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor to NASA. A large “NACA” sign on display comes from one of the landmark Langley, Va., wind tunnels that helped produce breakthroughs in aircraft design in the 1920s and 1930s.

With a variety of evocative displays, the exhibition will put in context the airliner’s crucial role in swiftly moving time-sensitive cargo like transplant organs, produce and seafood. The Washington Nationals baseball club has donated bats, a helmet, a team jacket and an equipment travel bag to represent how modern aircraft dramatically streamlined the road trip and expanded the reach of professional sports.

Special photo opportunities for visitors will be available throughout the gallery, including cutouts of soot-covered airmail pilots and traveling stars from Hollywood’s golden era. An airline chewing-gum dispenser, complimentary flight bags, a travel insurance vending machine and provocative stewardess uniforms from the 1960s and 1970s also help tell the exhibition’s story.

To explain the economics of the post-deregulation era, an interactive price “meter” will challenge visitors to spend $300 or less on a plane ticket while deciding whether they can do without such comforts as a non-stop flight, sufficient leg room and food service. An “In the News” section in the gallery and on the exhibition Web site will provide information on the latest innovations and events in air travel.

The “America by Air” exhibition will be the subject of a special themed Family Day on Nov. 17, with activities including curator presentations and storytimes for young visitors.

That weekend before Thanksgiving will be dedicated to the latest Smithsonian offerings as the National Museum of Natural History opens its special “Butterflies and Plants” enclosed pavilion and the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture unveils the new enclosed Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard.

“America by Air” is made possible through the generous support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the U.S. Department of Transportation; and Airbus. Additional support is provided by the Federal Aviation Administration and Rockwell Collins.

Northwest Airlines generously donated the 747 whose forward fuselage is displayed in the gallery.

The National Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall in Washington D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center— home to a number of historic commercial airplanes, including a Concorde, the Boeing Stratoliner 307 and the “Dash 80” original prototype for the Boeing 707—is located in Chantilly, Va., near Washington Dulles International Airport.

Both facilities are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Closed Dec. 25) Admission is free but there is a $12 fee for daily parking at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

The Smithsonian’s Newest Museum Takes First Steps Toward the Creation of Its Museum Building

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has selected Freelon Bond, an association of architectural and design firms The Freelon Group and Davis Brody Bond, to conduct a study that will be used to plan the design of the museum building.

The 18-month study will examine the various needs of the museum—technology, acoustics, fire protection and security—in collaboration with Lord Cultural Resources, a museum-planning firm with offices around the world, including New York and London, and Amaze Design, an exhibition design firm based in Boston. The study team will hold a series of meetings and focus groups across the country to hear what visitor-oriented features—such as auditorium, library/book store, restaurant and conservation center—should be included in the interior space. The study is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 31, 2009 and will outline the full spectrum of requirements for the new building.

The selection of Freelon Bond as the planning team does not guarantee that this firm will be selected as the architect of the building.

The museum is expected to open its doors to the public in 2015. It will be erected on a 5-acre tract of land on the National Mall known as the “Monument site” (bound by Constitution Avenue, Madison Drive, and 14th and 15th streets N.W.). The site is adjacent to the Washington Monument and across the street from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

The Freelon Group and Davis Brody Bond have extensive experience in the planning, programming and design of African-American-themed museums. Their major museum credits include the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama; the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta; and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in Baltimore.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture was established as a Smithsonian Institution museum by an Act of Congress in 2003. The new museum will be the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African-American life, art, history and culture, with collections and educational programming covering such varied topics as slavery, post-Civil War reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement.

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Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:30 am

Estate of Lavinia Blick and Others

Antiques, Old General Store Items, Motor Grader, Antique Tractor & Tools

Prince George, Virginia

Auction to be held at the Cerny Farm – Running 2 Auctions at Once!

Directions:  From I95, south of Petersburg, VA, take Exit 45 (Rt. 301). Take 301 South 1 mile to Gary’s Church Road (Rt. 608). Turn right, go ½ mile to College Road, turn right, go ½ mile to farm on left.   Follow signs.

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Hudson 4 Ton Tandem Axle 16 ft. Trailer

John Deere B Tractor (new paint and Tires)

Caterpillar Tandem Motor Grader WR – SN91G458

Lincoln Ranger 8 Welder/ 8kw Generator

Bush Hog 6 ft. Finishing Mower

ECOA EZ Stacker Electric Fork Lift

Torch Carts – Tool Boxes – Hand Tools

PTO Post Hole Digger – Yard Rake

Box and Road Blades – Pallet Jacks

Metal Band Saw – 20 New Windows

Fiberglass Kayak – Suzuki 185 4-Wheeler

Antiques and Furniture

Oak Hall Tree – Round Oak Table

Oak China Cabinet – Oak Writing Desk

Oak High Back Bed – Oak Mantle Clock

Mahogany Drop Leaf Table, Corner Cabinet, Buffet, 6 Chairs

Large Selection of Oval Picture Frames, Frames and Mirrors

Church Pews – Child’s Church Pew

Sessions Mantle Clock – Washstand

Secretary – Rockers – Hoosier Cabinet

Duncan Phyfe Tables – Selection of Coins

Drop Leaf End Tables – Gorham Crystal

Wedgwood China (Mirabelle)

Ant Sewing Machine

Edison Gem Phonograph – Quilt Rack

Walnut Top Washstand and Tables

Twin Beds, Dresser & Nightstand

3 – Wing Chairs – Oak Double Bed

Ant. Writing Desk – Ant. Potty Chair

Selection of Glassware, Lamps, Crocks, Jugs

Ladder Back and Cane Bottom Chairs

Vintage Hats and Boxes  – Cast Iron Pots

Old General Store Items

Fire Chief Gas Pump (On Location)

Safe – Postal Window

8 ft. and 6 ft. Oak Show Cases – Oak Desks

Toledo Scales – Cash Register

Paper Rack – Horse Drawn Cultivator

New Points & Casting for Horse Drawn Plows

Reel Mowers – Push Plows – Egg Crate

Tobacco Planter – Wooden Kegs

National Biscuit Co. Tin

Mahogany Breakfront – Pine Blanket Chest

Copper Boiler – L C Smith Typewriter

Milk Can – Corn Sheller

Old Bottles – Buck Saw – Coal Bucket

Toms Jars and Racks

Lanterns – Coke Clock

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Chicago, Illinois –Daryle S. Lambert, Founder of the 31 Club, the innovative club that focuses on building wealth using only antiques, collectibles, and fine art as its vehicle, has announced their investment gain of $5,000% in their first 120 days using the investment methods found in Lambert’s book, 31 Steps to Your Millions in Antiques & Collectibles.   Lambert, as a demonstration to his readers and 31 Club Members, set aside $125 dollars in an account to buy, then re-sell antiques. He then, reinvested all the money in additional purchases and, once again sold these new items, completing one cycle. Having completed 5 successive cycles using this method, the account now has grown in value to $5,000 – a return on investment of about five thousand percent, 120 days later.

“We challenged our members and readers to join in the race to make their first million dollars,” said Lambert, “then we set out to demonstrate how this goal can be reached by doing it ourselves, along with our members. An account with $5,000 might not seem like big news right now, but once we go through this cycle several times more, building our wealth step-by-step, watch what happens in the next 120 days.” Members can follow the club’s progress by logging into the member’s site and checking the spread sheet information.

Lambert’s goal by the end of December is to have turned $125 into $20,000. “In my book, I suggest starting an account with $100 and making a minimum amount of buys and sells each year. This way, people can go about and live their lives, work their jobs, and enjoy their families, without having to dedicating themselves full time to this endeavor. Even if a member completed only 2 successive steps each year, following the criteria established in the book, and at the very least, doubling their money on each sell, by the end of 5 years they’d have an account stashed away with a value over $100,000.”

Lambert hopes his readers and members won’t stop with $100,000. “It really starts getting interesting just past this mark,” he states. “If one continues forward just a few more steps, it’s likely an account of over $1.5 million will have your name on it.”

The 31 Club, was formed after readers urged Lambert to create a club of like-minded individuals based upon 31 Steps to Your Millions in Antiques & Collectibles. The club is dedicated to helping members reach their financial goals through community, education and the support of one another, as well as the leadership of Lambert and the 31 Club staff.

Encouraging a shift of focus from the more common and less valuable items in the marketplace to the rare and more valuable items, the 31 Club offers a place to learn the art of buying and selling in the higher end markets and get information, assistance and support.

About Daryle S. Lambert:
Daryle S. Lambert is Author of  31 Steps to Your Millions in Antiques & Collectibles, founder of it’s spin-off wealth accumulation club, the 31 Club, and President of 31 Inc., a company that teaches wealth building within the Antique, Collectible and Fine Art Industry and operates a growing higher end Marketplace and Gallery.  In addition, he authors the antiques & collectibles blog, “The Guy in the Red Tie.”
Mr. Lambert has been a collector and dealer for over 40 years. During that time his entrepreneurial endeavors have included starting businesses in real estate, oil exploration, and financial securities. Throughout his career, his love of collecting and dealing in antiques and collectibles has remained a constant source of enjoyment and profit. Daryle lives with his wife and son in the Chicago area.
Mr. Lambert is available for interviews with accredited media. Contact: Cindy Stackler Nieder, Director of Marketing and Publicity.  cindy@31corp.com     847-347-5074.

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