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Modern day treasure hunters are coming to Yankton, SD!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Recent finds include a Civil War cache in an attic, over 1.2 million dollars worth of silver bars buried on an Illinois farm, Confederate money hidden in the walls of a residence uncovered during a remodel, Abraham Lincoln hand-written thank you letter, expressing gratitude for a nightâ€™s stay while traveling to Chicago, and much more. What kind of treasures will be revealed during our trip? Letâ€™s find out together. You or your next door neighbor just might be the next to find a jackpot in the attic. Start digging now and be ready to have some fun and make some money. Yankton is the next stop on The Treasure Hunters Roadshow nationwide tour. During this event at the Riverfront Center, our treasure hunters are hoping to see items such as coins and paper currency issued prior to 1965, toys, dolls, trains, vintage jewelry, old and modern musical instruments, war memorabilia, gold and silver jewelry, costume jewelry, advertising memorabilia, swords, knives, daggers, and the unusual! Collectors are very serious about their hobby; so serious that they will pay a lot of money for the items they are looking for. **End Summary** Topics: Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city]]> contact]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Local residents sell collectibles at Treasure Hunters Roadshow

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Kathy Schweer doesnâ€™t consider herself an expert in selling collectibles. But on Wednesday she was trying to sell several valued items at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow at the Super 8 in Cape Girardeau. While she didnâ€™t sell her silver coins or toothpick holders like she had hoped, the Cape Girardeau resident received $35 for a chain purse. I got more out of it than I thought I would,â€ said Schweer, who had never sold items at a similar show before. Iâ€™ve had it for several years, and when I saw the ad in the paper for the roadshow, I thought this would be a could time to see how much I could get for it.â€ Since 1996, the Treasure Hunters Roadshow has visited more than 600 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. At each show local residents bring their antiques and collectibles to learn an associateâ€™s estimate of its worth. If the seller agrees to sell the item to the associate, the item is then shipped to private collectors or its corporate office in Athens, Ill. Our goal is for people to leave with a check,â€ said show manager Doug Feese. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Treasure Hunters Roadshow Have Another Huge Turnout

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

(1888PressRelease) March 12, 2009 - Today the Treasure Hunters Roadshow came into town with the wallets full to buy old antiques, collectibles, gold, silver, jewelry, coins, etc. Donâ€™t trust those otherâ€ guys that are trying to copy the Roadshowâ€ you may have your checks bounce or find out after they have gone that the company bounced your checkâ€. The Treasure Hunters Roadshow has been around for over 14 years and started buying toys and antiques. With the record prices of gold and silver they now are a one stop shop. We interviewed with several of the locals and talked about their experience with the show, and there comments are you some you might not expect in this slowing economy! Matthew Jenkins stated I inherited a few guitars from my dad and had no clue what they were worthâ€ stated Matthew, he took his guitars in found out what they were worth and they got a live Collector on the phone right there that was willing to buy his guitars! **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Antique Treasure Hunter's Roadshow appraising locals' collectibles

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

By ALICIA SPATES - H&R Staff Writer DECATUR - A penny was worth up to $2,500 to Decatur resident Jerry Morrison. But according to Jeff Parsons, president of the Antique Treasure Hunterâ€™s Roadshow, itâ€™s not your average penny with Lincolnâ€™s profile gracing one side. This is the holy grail of penny collectors,â€ Parsons said of the 1909 S VDB Lincoln penny, describing it as being in good condition and with luster. Grading is everything.â€ Morrison and other local residents brought in their valuables or items they thought could be valuable to the Antique Treasure Hunterâ€™s Roadshow to be appraised Thursday. Such items as toys, jewelry, paper currency and coins were brought to the experts of the roadshow at the Decatur Conference Center and Hotel to find their worth and even sell on the spot. The road show will be available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Saturday at the hotel. Morrison, who acquired his valuable penny along with other rare coins and paper currency from his late father, was adamant about not selling his coin to Parsons but appreciative of receiving an estimated value. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Buying Paintings: Synchromism

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Synchromism paintings feature harmoniously balanced colors and a feeling of movement. It is believed that synchromist paintings evoke similar feelings and sensations as music. This is a basic tenet of the synchromism art movement. As such, these paintings make wonderfully pleasing additions to any modern art collection. Founded in 1912 by Morgan Russell and Stanton MacDonald-Wright, synchromism was an art movement based no the idea that sound and color are phenomena that are similar in the way that the individual experiences and perceives them. Movement as well as organization of color into â€˜color scalesâ€' are the ways in which synchromism pieces correlate to musical art forms. A basic tenet of synchromism is that color can be arranged or orchestrated in much the same way that notes of a symphony are arranged by composers. This harmonious arrangement of colors and shapes produces experiential results similar to that of listening to well balanced orchestral compositions. Artists of the synchromism art movement believed that by painting in color scales could evoke sensations that were very musical in nature. Typically, synchromism pieces feature a strong rhythmic form or forms that then advance toward complexity in form and hue, moving in a particular direction. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Buying Paintings: Realism

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

In literature as well as art realism is the depiction of subjects as they appear in practical, everyday life. Realism does not deal with interpretation or embellishment. The point of realism is to capture people or situations in a gritty and real way. Similar to realist photography, the realist painter does not place emphasis on stylization but is most interested in depicting situations just as they appear to the naked eye. While realism depicts real characters in real situations, there tends to be emphasis placed on the sordid or ugly. In this way, realism is very much the opposite of idealism. In idealism the theory is that the reality and regular world around us is merely a reflection of a higher truth. With realism, however, itâ€™s as though weâ€™re saying all I know for sure is what my eyes and other sense organs tell meâ€. As a reaction to the idealism of Romanticism in France during the middle of the nineteenth century, realism became the popular cultural movement in many ways. Realism is often linked to demands for political and social reform, as well as ideas about democracy. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

The TruthTreasure Hunters Roadshow!

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The question arises when a company pays out to local residents in large and small cities country wide; Do I have to worry about a bounced check, or will my check bounce when I take it to the bank with the Treasure Hunters Roadshow? They are here for a week and then gone the next. Well we dug deeper into this question to find some answers. We talked with hundreds of different sellers all attending the Treasure Hunters Roadshow events countrywide and asked a little about their experience and to see what happens AFTER the Roadshow has left and they have your items. Tony Steeles of Minnesota said that he had an extensive coin collection that he brought into the Treasure Hunters Roadshow and here is his comment, I was pretty skeptical at first because I have all these coins, I have waited for an hour and I kind of know what they are worth. After the expert reviewed my items they gave me an extremely fair offer almost double of what the pawn shops offered me. So I ended up selling and walked out with just a little over $4,000. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Art Auctions: Grotesque Artwork

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

That there is an overwhelming number of pieces that represent this particular grouping of artwork seems false to believe, but this is happens to be on the rise as we get further into the new millennium, and realize the shedding of our cultureâ€™s skins time and again. Grotesque artwork pulls us back into the human forms we have been born into, and truly seems to give us a reaffirming sense of who we are. There are many artists, though part of other artistic movements, which have proven to fill the criteria for this grouping of concepts. Grotesque art from the past ranges from varying degrees of mood and theme, but always seem to draw from those factors that are widely considered by most to be taboo or dark in nature, adhering to some of the most brutal and thought-provoking events in history. All these things have come together to create a body of works that jump between particular eras, but seem interrelated in the subject matter that they portray, creating works that define the morbid attentions that we seem to take from our history as a whole. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Buying Paintings: Symbolism

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Evoking a taste similar to the Romanticist tradition, but utilized mysticism and sensitivity through mythology and dream imagery, preceding the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung. With a strong philosophical touch, more so than a style of art, and Art Nouveau and Expressionist artists such as Edvard Munch. Beginning in France as a reaction to the movements of Naturalism and Realism, which seemed to capture the particular components of consensual reality, and presented spirituality and imagination reflecting some artists budding interest in religion and spirituality. In literature, poet Charles Baudelaire was developing his work and the movement, and especially with such luminaries as Verlaine contributing to the collective effort of the literary movement during the 1860s and through to the 1870s. With the works of Edgar Allen Poe coming to popularity in the 1880s, the Symbolism movement in artwork represented an outgrowth into the darker and more gothic nature of Romanticism, and contrasted with Romanticismâ€™s rebellious and impetuous sides. Symbolist writers wrote in very metaphoric and suggestive manner, to imbue the subjects with a sense of symbolic meaning, and made realistic images into representatives for more esoteric and primordial ideas. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew, is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Tresure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

Buying Paintings : Romanticism

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The Treasure Hunters Roadshow are looking at buying paintings that you may have sitting around the house. Art is such an expression of one's heart and passion. During the Romanticism period they had such a wonderful way to express their passion through paintings. Though sometimes referred to as the "anti-classical" movement in art, Romanticism is a style that focuses on the artist's individualistic and emotionally wrought point of view, and is found to oppose the art movement known as Neoclassicism. Even though there have been many artists to combine elements of both. Some of the more renowned names around this movement, which utilized strong emotion to convey meaning, were Francisco de Goya and William Blake respectively. This particular art form became a reaction to the outgrowth of reason by homing in on imagination and feeling. It is not difficult to see the value in the paintings by these artists, and there have been many examples of how other artists have influenced one another over time. As the whole category of Romanticism refers more to the trends of artists, poets, and philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries than as much to an artistic movement. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Treasure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact at 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com

What the Treasure Hunters Roadshow Offers!

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The Treasure Hunters Roadshow is an amazing show that 1000's attend across the USA to see if they have treasures at home. The exciting part of the whole program is that these folks are finding that they really do have treasures worth sometimes in the thousands of dollars. What should sellers expect when they show up at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow? Inside a meeting room at your local hotel conference center, the Treasure Hunters Roadshow creates an inviting atmosphere where guests can wait in line while observing other appraisal activities. â€¢ Inside of the large conference room, tables will be arranged in multiple stations where individual treasure hunters are sitting. â€¢ Sellers are asked to come to a table where a treasure hunter will examine your things. â€¢ The items are laid out on the Treasure Hunters Roadshow table for viewing, appraisal and purchase offer. Visitors Items are Separated Into Three Groups: â€¢ Items we need for our collectors: These are the items we want to buy and we will make an offer based on current market value. **End Summary** Topics: Treasure Hunters Roadshow]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Matthew is one of the treasure hunters at the Treasure Hunters Roadshow. If you would like the Treasure Hunters Roadshow to come to your city, contact at 217-636-7900 or visit http://www.treasurehuntersroadshow.com