List of sought after rare antiques?

Hi All
I was wondering if there is a website or any info that lists the most sought after missing rare antiques that could be out there ...and that potentially could be discovered?
TT antique

 

I don't know of any particular website. When you start looking at stuff, you pretty quickly find out some things from this maker or that are worth a lot more than other things from those same makers, some things of this or that type are worth a lot more than other things of the same type.

You will hear stories of the incredibly valuable whatsit showing up for pennies in the local thrift, but you could live a long life and never have it happen to you.

And so far as money is concerned... sometimes it seems like there's no accounting for taste.

I think there are a couple of Imperial Faberge Easter eggs that are still unaccounted for.

 

& when someone finds one...it's usually a repro..

 

Correct me if I am wrong ..... I think the OP is probably talking about one of a kind known but missing antiques from history. Examples would include the lost Amber Room, The missing imperial faberge' eggs, stolen artworks, etc. Here is the Lost Art Registry to start ......

http://www.artloss.com/en

The stolen art registry ......

http://www.artwis.com/stolen-art-register/

 

Thanks verybrad,you got my intention.I will check that official site.It is after I read one piece that I wondered if there is any elaborate source..check this link that lists some 27 amazing missing antiques with thier back stories,,,it includes valuable vases, paintings,books,furnitures,figurines etc..some of them could potentially be found

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/antiquesfyi/missingmasterpieces/

P.S. Yeah the Fabrege egg is an enduring legend..

TTA

 

Never mind the rare and valuable antiques, I just wish somehow we could lose all that stuff that is just old and still pretty rubbishy.

Wood rots away after a while but there seems to be no natural enemy of glass and china apart from clumsiness and stone floors.

There are not enough Greek restaurants to smash all those run of the mill china plates, and it is too much trouble to start a new religion involving sacrificing china tea sets to a volcano god.

 

I was hoping there would be a Vermeer or a Rembrandt in the Whitey Bulger auction.

 

Oh, af, are you just feeling cranky?

Nonetheless, of course, I have to agree... As they say, there's no accounting for taste!

 

Faberge eggs, Stradivari violins, jewels and treasures lost during invasions and revolutions...

 

Is there anything in that list that you would walk away from, even if you knew absolutely nothing about it?

A bigger problem is buying things of obvious quality and then being unable to ID them. I honestly believe that a majority of people put pedigree before quality. There are people on this board who devote a lot of time searching for mis-identified items because they know that even though the quality is there, nobody will care if it doesn't have the name.

 

A lot of items of excellent quality often were manufactured without ANY maker's marks on them AT ALL. That doesn't mean they're trash. Easily 3/4 of the antiques in my collection have no dates, model-names, serial-numbers, company marks or anything else on them.

 

Welcome!

 

Rubbishy ceramics and glass is accepted as hardcore at our local recycling centre

 

When I used to do the Wellfleet flea market, there was a guy who specialized in glass. At the end of the day, he always took a box or two of junk glass and smashed it for the entertainment of onlookers. He said it was for two reasons. One was that if it was common, it didn't deserve to be kept and if it was collectible, smashing some only made the ones he had more rare, thus more valuable. Having watched this performance, I can tell you he only smashed cheap glass. People would flock to his table to see what he had left. Great sales technique.

 

I would LOVE to see a performance of this!! It sounds EXTREMELY entertaining!

At my local flea-market, it seems like somebody smashes or breaks something every single week. It's almost like a tradition. We've had plates, vases, one mirror, and most memorably - an entire crystal chandelier.

 

About 10 years ago I was doing the Charlotte Metrolina Extravaganza. My booth was out in one of the tents & it was extremely windy on Saturday. I was a nervous wreck listening to this heavy canvas tent flap bump into my table all day long. At some point during the afternoon we heard a horrible crash in the next tent over. Turns out someone had one of the old bowfront china cabinets that was filled to the brim with all manner of fine glassware & porcelain. A gust of wind caught it just right & it fell face first onto the concrete floor.

Peggy

 

Fine! YOU WIN!

 

That's what happens to people who aren't smarter than the objects they're handling.

 

Either that cabinet was ridiculously top-heavy, or that was one hell of a gust of wind!! The worst thing I ever saw was the destruction of the chandelier. The seller foolishly left it on a chair while he unloaded his truck. It slid off and crashed to the floor. It went off like some glass and crystal fragmentation-grenade.

 

We used to run the Rotary Antique Fair in the middle of the track at the local school. All the dealers had those pop up tents in a big circle. One year a severe gust of wind came and swept up a whole line of pop ups. Several tables of glass and china were lost. We moved it to the front lawn after that fiasco.