A look at the 2012 Collectors Carnival Antiques & Collectibles show at the Vanderburgh county 4H fairgrounds in Evansville, Indiana.

I am trying to find out what year this Jack Daniel’s display was made and where it was produced.

3 Day Auction Extravaganza: Thursday, February 3 – Saturday, February 5 Auction Schedule: Thursday, February 3 1 PM • Antiques & Collectibles 6 PM • Coins • Collectibles & Boxlots Friday, February 4 10 AM • Antiques & Collectibles 5 PM • Firearm Preview 6 PM • Firearm Sale Saturday, February 5 10 AM • Antiques & Collectibles PREVIEW: 2 hrs prior to auction Online bidding available for select items. Check Higgenbotham.com for details. Over 115 Firearms • Ceramic & Pottery • Over 800 Commemorative & Collectible Coins • Antique Furniture • Stained Glass • Nautical Collectibles • Clocks • Paintings & Prints • Steins • Home Wares • Fountains • Antique Luggage & Chests • Custom Walk-thru Bar • Brass Wildlife Figurines • Whizzer Motor Bike & Parts Over 115 Guns featuring a selection of 39 Browning Long Guns & Hand Guns Other featured Long Guns: Spikes Tactical, Ruger, Marlin, Remington, Armalite, Keyston Sporting Arms, Mossberg, Harrison & Richardson, Ithaca, Mouser, Weatherby, Winchester, Calico, McWhorter & Stolle Panda Featured Hand Guns: Browning, Smith & Wesson, Dan Wesson, Beretta, Walther, Ruger, Manurhin, Jennings, Les Baer, Mitchell Arms, Witness, Freedom Arms & Colt

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Terry Kovel shows you her Grape-Nuts Advertising Sign, and talks about looking for treasures, and how to recognize fakes. Go to Kovels.com to find out more information on advertising collectibles.

Terry Kovel discusses … the 2012 edition of her annual Kovels’ Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide. The book, in its 44th annual edition, is written for collectors of anything and everything. She explains how to look for prices of antiques and collectibles you own or hope to own. Up-to-date paragraphs introducing each of the 700 categories in the book detail history, dates and marks and guide you to other useful information. Categories include companies like Royal Doulton. Dishes and figurines by that company are easy to identify by a mark. But other categories are more general, like Folk Art, Silver-American, Silver-English, Medical and Dental. Dolls are listed by maker, but we include an extensive index, so can look up Barbie dolls and discover that she’s indexed under Mattel, Barbie. The book lists selected items that you might want to buy or sell this year. Prices are all new every year, so don’t expect to find the same things each year. Prices are taken from auctions, shows, flea markets and online shops, NOT from online sites like eBay where prices are set by amateurs… Auction prices include the buyer’s premium. Kovels’ Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide lists 40000 prices of antiques and collectibles made from about 1750 to 2000. Prices range from 25 cents to tens of thousands of dollars. But almost everything is under 000. A few things that top that price are in categories like Mechanical Banks—and the difference is explained by pristine condition vs …

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Pickers buy and sell antiques, collectibles and anything old. They come from all walks of life and are incredibly different, but share one commonality–the thrill of the hunt.