Age Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Antique expert Mark Moran will offer informative value on antique items. Registration is required. Only 1 item per registration. Opinions of value are informal, and may not be used for insurance or charitable donation, which require a certified appraisal.
Registration starts on Monday, February 26 at 5PM and ends on Wednesday, March 13 at 8PM. Register for your time slot by calling 920-686-3010 or by stopping at the Main Service Desk.
Categories of objects may include:
- Fine art, including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary.
- Furniture (photos of large pieces may be sent to me in advance).
- Ceramics, including figural pottery, vases, dishes, kitchenware and stoneware.
- Glassware, including lighting, marbles and souvenir items.
- Vintage photographs, including snapshots, tintypes, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
- Advertising, including posters, lithographed tin, paper and figural objects.
- Folk art, including carvings, quilts, weathervanes, windmill weights and "outsider" art.
- Assorted toys, including dolls (bisque, composition and plastic), windups and mechanical banks.
- Metalware, including iron, bronze, brass, pot metal, silver, silver plate.
- Clocks, including mantel, hanging and figural; also pocket and wristwatches.
- Costume jewelry, including brooches, bracelets, earrings.
- Musical Instruments, including string, wind and reed instruments.
- Books.
- Sporting Memorabilia.
*Excluded items: all weapons, including swords and knives (though folding knives with advertising are accepted); traps (like leg-hold); Nazi memorabilia; coins and paper money; fine jewelry, including precious gems; Beanie Babies.
Disclaimer(s)
Accessibility
Individuals requesting accommodation for disabilities should contact the Library's ADA Manager Stacey Bialek at 920-686-3008 or sbialek@manitowoc.org. Reasonable accommodations will be made as quickly as possible, often within a week.