"Antiques and Collectibles Ultimate Antique Quest"

"The Truth is in the Pudding of Knowledge"

"Value Discovery of Possesions of the Past"

Applied Knowledge brings you personal empowerment. Arm yourself with information, with knowledge to make informed antiques and collectibles value decisions. Nationally known, television, radio, and newspaper featured appraisers, specialty asset brokers, and antique dealers Randeen Cummings Nelson and Wm. R. (Randy) Nelson want to share with you our knowledge. We want to empower you to make informed decisions about antiques and collectibles. We invite you to take the Antique Quest journey. Enjoy. Learn. Support, contribute and share, this is your site to build with us.

 
Antiques.  Collectibles.  Silver.  Fine Art, Prints, Folk Art.  Heirlooms, Vintage, Estate.  All these words infer items from the past.  Being old doesn't necessarily mean something is valuable dollar wise.  But, it is a good start, because if it is old (and well cared for) it may very well be valuable. We will prepare you to discern the "truth in the pudding" of antiques, revivals, reruns and reproductions.

Our goal is an ongoing commitment and service to you. Offered for your benefit are:

  • *Informative and experience packed antiques and collectibles Articles
  • Antiques Quest Sales Gallery of Antiques and Collectibles with our personal guarantee of satisfaction
  • Antiques and collectibles Photo Gallery for identification, period, and construction aides
  •  Interactive Blog Quest for asking questions, sharing your expertise and experiences, funny stories, etc....
  • Bookstore of personally recommended research, history, or reference books and antique care products
  •  Our (until now) Secrets offered as an Estate Sale Do It Yourself Kit compiled for the novice and for experienced estate sale reps AND....
  • The Appraisal Quest Subsite of AValueQuest for appraisal information and how to protect your personal assets

We welcome you, your opinions, your contributions, your questions, your knowledge and experiences good and bad.  This site is a long term committment to your use and knowledge.  As it expands, help us build it so all can share and benefit from the information and resources we offer.

Knowledge is Power and we want to empower you here at  Antique Quest to be able to recognize quality, an idea of age and the history (called provenance) of your antiques and collectibles.  You can empower youself with our help to more more easily discern the difference between antique and reproduction, quality and fraud.  We'll do our best to empower you with the basic tools of the trade.  We are offering over 70 years of combined antiques, collectibles, and value experience for your benefit.

18th-19th Century furnishings accents and lighting.  Fine and Folk art.  Glass, china.  Ceramics, pottery. Textiles, jewelry, and accessories.  Comics, celebrity, and sports memorabilia.  Rare, old books and paper.  The categories of antiques and collectibles are endless. We will provide you with an abundance of new informational, educational articles as quickly as we can. You can review our credentials (Randeen and Randy) and information about us under the Avaluequest.com home link.

Stay awhile, learn alot, enjoy, share, contribute, buy with confidence. This is your antiques and collectibles Antique Quest.   Our products come with a personal quarantee of authenticy, true condition.  We stand behind our antiques and collectibles.  The associates we offer products from are our personal recommendations who come with powerful and reliable quarantees.  If you have any problems we will help you resolve them in any way we can to your satisfaction.

There is not a better time than now to discriminately purchase antiques and collectibles.  In an upside down world, they may loose some value but they always stand up better than new personal property or most other investments.  Antiques and collectibles have stood the test of time.

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