| Kovels' List of Top Antiques Searches Reflect Current Events
Kovels has released the Top 20 list of antiques and collectibles for March based on results of hundreds of thousands of searches on its website. The top three searches - Pottery, Glass and Furniture - rarely change and are always the major areas of interest because they are useful antiques or collectibles found in every home. But the other items reflect a special interest often influenced by current news or auctions. For example, the recent ruling against selling war medals has created a problem for dealers and a change in prices of World War II souvenirs so it moved to number 10. The auctions of several large toy collections created extra publicity and interest in toy prices, and Toys made it into the 7th position. The entire top 20 list follows: Pottery and porcelain Glass Furniture Jewelry Bottles Metals Toys Prints, pictures, paintings, paper Royal Doulton World War II Stoves Coca-Cola Advertising Alabaster Silver plate Lighters Folk art Occupied Japan Weapons Music Kovels.com offers the Web's largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles.
TwinEngines Supports the Arts in Atlanta; 15th Annual High Museum ...
TwinEngines Inc. continues to support the Atlanta High Museum of Art in its Annual High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction fundraising campaign. Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) April 21, 2007 -- In its 15th year, the 2007 High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction broke all past records -- including a Live Auction total of more than $1.5 million. Silent auctions on Friday night and Saturday and a Paddle Raise brought in another $300,000 for a grand total of over $1.8 million in auction sales.
The 2007 Wine Auction marks the seventh year TwinEngines has participated in this exciting event. TwinEngines has dedicated its time, service and technology resources to develop and host a dynamic, database driven, content managed web site listing the theme events, and sponsors for the Wine Auction.
Lunchtime markets: FTSE lower on bidding war concerns
Investors' fears over merger and acquisition activity weighed on the markets and the FTSE 100 was 4.7 lower in early trade at 6482.1. The FTSE 250, however, picked up 14.4 to 11915. Barclays led the blue-chip index lower, down 1.2pc to 741p. Investors were concerned that the bank would be drawn into a costly bidding war for ABN Amro following its agreed 3.225-for-1 all share bid, worth around \u20AC67bn (£46bn), for the Dutch bank. .
Germany to offer unrestricted 3G concessions
Reuters reports that Germany's telecoms regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), plans to auction a second lot of UMTS concessions in early 2008 that would allow operators to offer more services than before. The first sale in 2000 drew criticism from cellcos because the amount of spectrum fell below what they needed to offer full voice, video and data services to wireless devices anywhere in the world. ‘We will not put down any conditions saying you may offer this or that service or technology. It will be more open,’ Matthias Kurth, head of the BNetzA said in an interview. ‘Operators will also be allowed to deal in frequencies, meaning they can swap with others,’ he added. Six operatorss spent EUR51 bullion (USD66 billion) in 2000 on domestic 3G licences, but only four actually deployed services.
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