Thinking it was a valued antique, he was horrified.
"The Chinese have always valued antique scholar's objects," Ms. Wender said.
Incubators are being set up: at Enkuba, in Istanbul, Piraye Antika, a former local head of HSBC, a big bank, and her colleagues have taken on Bu Kac Para Eder, which values antiques online, and torpilli, which helps students preparing for university-entrance exams.The government's policies have been a bit disjointed, says Ms Altop, but are becoming more concerted.
TV programs on restoring houses, on buying and valuing antiques, became prime time viewing.
Instead, a baseball memorabilia collection owned by a partner in the New York Yankees, Barry Halper, will be the first offering on Sothebys.com underscoring the company's plan to offer lower-value antiques, jewelry and collectibles in its transition to online sales.
One of the people queuing in the rain to have their antiques valued had just produced a painting by her long-dead relative Evelyn Dunbar.
At a restaurant that prizes its history as a Prohibition-era speakeasy and its relationships, some as old and valued as the antique toys hanging from the Bar Room ceiling, Mr. Weiss was in charge of seating for more than 40 of his 54 years there.
I respect antiques and love them but there is a lot of furniture out there that does not have a lot of value.
Koch's collection of art and antiques is valued at several hundred million dollars, and in 2005 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts prepared an exhibition of many of his possessions.
SWEDEN: ART THEFT -- Art by Juan Gris and Fernand Léger was among paintings and antique books valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were stolen over the weekend from a collector's villa outside Stockholm, the police said yesterday.
