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Precious Metals

Posted on: February 7th, 2025

It’s time to go through your drawers and trinket boxes, not to mention your kitchen/dining room storage chests and cupboards.  As of today, February 5, 2025, silver is selling for $32.56/troy ounce and gold, at its all-time high, for $2,881.30/troy … Continue reading »

Your Table Silver as an Asset

Posted on: February 7th, 2024

The “spot price” of silver (or any precious metal) is the price at which the metal is trading on a given day. The silver items you have stored away for table use, handed down in your family or acquired over … Continue reading »

Bisttram and Lumpkins and Pelton, Oh My!

Posted on: January 6th, 2023

Aaron Payne’s latest blog post is a must read regarding LACMA and the Transcendental Painting Group of NM (ap@apfineart.com). It was with warm sentiment I read Aaron’s latest post about growing up in Los Angeles and LACMA’s not-to-be-missed show on … Continue reading »

A Randall Davey Surprise!

Posted on: January 10th, 2022

While doing my art reading for the day I was pleasantly surprised to run across the sale of a Randall Davey watercolor mentioned in an article by the international art site artnet. The article is about the great-granddaughter of a … Continue reading »

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