Antique China Questions About Antique Doll Pictures
Posted in Antique Store on 05/16/2012 06:05 pm by Ling
Daniel asks…
I have this antique It looks to be 100 yr. old. want to get it apprasised. what should it do. and want to sell
I found it in this house I was cleaning out . They had a lot of antiques wooden dolls antique figurines. Just a lot of Old Stuff. I know the picture is worth some money looks like it had been in a yard sale because it still had price tag or it. $35.00. I know antiques when I se them.

Ling answers:
T.hree ideas:
if it is signed google the artist and learn somthing about him
check ebay for works by the same artist to get an idea of value
call local antique dealers and see ho does appraisals in your area
The first two can help you be at least a little informed when you get an actual appraisal---you don't want to get taken

Thomas asks…
i need help about a child predator.?
i was selling hand made dolls that look as realistic as possible on craigslist. ((i had catorgized these dolls under collectables an said they were not for children. that they had accurate female anatomy)) this man emailed ma and said he was an art teacher at RISD. he asked me a bunch of innocent questions about my ooak doll. He had asked me if i had anymore and i said yes, i have a child sized doll left but she wasn't completed. he started to ask me dirty questions such as does she have nipples on her breast and i said no. he asked me about 15 mor dirty questions about her. at the end he said he would pay me any amont of money i wanted if i could make the child sized doll look like a very young Japanese school girl getting held down and forced raped by the two older looking models. i said i didn't want to get involved with any freaky fettishes i told him he could display the 2 figures any way he wanted when he got home with them, ( there was 2 older dolls and a child size that i was in the prosses of making a fairy.) that was the end of that email conversation.
Next i was using my boyfriends email he emailed me again about another ad on craigslist, (he didnt no it was me))) he asked if i was in needed a job... so i said yes. he said his friend owns a modeling agency named amc or something around that.... my boyfriend said to pretend i was a younger girl at the age of seventeen and see if i could get him to say or do anything nasty.... he took the bait. i used some picture i found on google search. and pretened i was a younger girl. i made sure i said nothing sexual to him so i wouldn't get any trouble and i had goten a picture of him and i know his full name.
today he emailed me again about pictures that i had posted up on CL( there not of anybody just a few antique pictures of mountains) he tried to pretend that it was all ajoke and now he wont stop emailing me. when this firts happened we reported him to internet crime 4 times and now i don't know what to do.... please help me!!

Ling answers:
Hmm, I think this may be miscategorised. But I would recommend contacting a law enforcement agency that specialises in this, or if it's local your local law enforcement agency. They may be able to get him based on your harassment experience.
Unfortunately it does not look like he's really done anything illegal yet. As you said "you can do anything with the dolls when you get them home". I think the most you can do is report it. If you have his real name that may be a stepping stone. If you have a blog or something similar I would post the emails and such. This way anyone googling his name will see that he's a creep.

William asks…
Need a free photo album/catalog software?
I would like to find a free program to download that I can use as a catalog, photo album, inventory keeper. I have antique to sell on various sites. Which means I upload the photos to bucket fish so then I just throw the link in when uploading the item to the sell site. But I sure would love a book like thing that I could download onto my desktop to use as a catalog, where I have the information about the item as well as a photo of it. So this way I can have a antique doll #6 since just writing antique doll, 10 times for 10 antique dolls is not going to get the correct doll to the person who purchased it. They don't all look the same, and yet most of the descriptions are the same. Like... pink cut glass bowl in a star like design. If I have more than two, even though I'm pretty sure I have
20, well it would be nice for me to be able to look at the photo the different star cut pink bowl the person purchased if I'm selling 10 of them. Also then I would have the info about that one antique right there all together next to the picture. So please help find me find one that will work. Thanks

Ling answers:
Take a look at Daminion - this is a free photo catalog software that will easily catalog your photos and it can optimize your image to upload the to your sell site (use Export feature for this)
It has super simple UI, but very powerful and convenient. The program is actively developed and supported. If your sell site supports file metadata (like XMP) then all of your photo annotations could be easily transferred to your site without additional efforts from your side by describing them on the web-site side.

Sharon asks…
Christmas gift ideas for my bestfriends?? Please help!?
Ok so i'm 17 and i have two best friends.. one is 14 and the other is 17.. for the 14 year old one i got her a picture frame that says Friends Forever and a scrapbook with colorful sheets cause she wants us to have like memories of all three of us.. and then the 17 year old one i got her the same picture frame that says FRIENDS FOREVER and like two lip glosses and a chapstick cause i always use hers
.. Idk if i should get them anything else.. ? we're not wanting to spend much on eachother.. any ideas
I'm the Band "geek" but actually i'm pretty cool not a geek at all but i'm in band so we're stereotyped and The 17 year old one is the new girl (in school) but she's simple and a total girl.. and then the 14 year old one is like the antique doll
she's a cheerleader but she's not snobby or stuck up at all they are both really sweet girls..

Ling answers:
You should put a photo of the 3 of you in the two frames. That would be really sweet. There's nothing more you need to buy! It's the thought that counts!

Steven asks…
What's the best Mother's Day??
What's the best mother's day gift you have gotten from your children? My daughter is only 7, but for the first time since she was born I got a gift that I knew absolutely nothing about. That is what made it so special; it was when she was 5 in kindergarten. They used trays from the lunchroom, painted them white and put her picture in the middle with her all dolled up with a fancy hat and feather boa around her neck. (black and white picture to look antique like). Then on each side of her she put her little handprints in red paint. I have it hanging in my bedroom where it will be for a very long time.

Ling answers:
My best present was a lie in & them making a pact to be good all day
better than anything they could buy
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