{"quotes":[{"text":"The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.","author":"Jonathan Gash","tags":["antiques","greed","greedy","law","lovejoy","money","sale","selling"],"id":29325,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gash"},{"text":"Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.","author":"Ellen Read","tags":["antiques","australian-","chinese-myths","friendship","historical-romanceorical","ming-statue","murder-mystery","victoria"],"id":46855,"author_id":"Ellen+Read"},{"text":"Fraud is the daughter of greed.","author":"Jonathan Gash","tags":["antiques","fraud","greed","lovejoy"],"id":68472,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gash"},{"text":"She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious.The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and kitsch. The common thread seemed to be that each object had a story, like a pottery jug with a bas-relief love story told in pictures, in which she'd found a note reading, 'Long may we run. -Gilbert.' Or the antique clock on the living room wall, each of its carved figures modeled after one of the clockmaker's twelve children. She favored the unusual, so long as it appeared to have been treasured by someone, once upon a time. Her mail spilled from an antique box containing a pigeon-racing counter with a brass plate engraved from a father to a son. She hung her huge handbag on a wrought iron finial from a town library that had burned and been rebuilt in a matter of weeks by an entire community.Other people's treasures captivated her. They always had, steeped in hidden history, bearing the nicks and gouges and fingerprints of previous owners. She'd probably developed the affinity from spending so much of her childhood in her grandmother's antique shop.","author":"Susan Wiggs","tags":["antiques","apartment","heirlooms","history","kitsch","tess-delaney","unusual"],"id":89147,"author_id":"Susan+Wiggs"},{"text":"Take it all, all of it!' Greg cried out. 'These things here...I've been making them better, fixing them. It doesn't matter...They don't matter. I've been here before.' He paused to try to collect himself. 'It's my past, my present...These things--' He lifted a hand out to the objects around him. 'These things are me.' Now whispering, 'Can't you see me?","author":"Dayna S. Rubin","tags":["action-adventure","antiques","chicago","christian-louboutin-shoes","corporate-espionage","cubs","cyber-action-team","cybercrime","eco-friendly","fbi","greg","harley","hermes","jamaica","kitty","mystery","pea-pod","porsche","recycling","suspense-romance","tattoos","trump-towers","vintage-cars","weddings","wrigleyville","zamantha"],"id":98993,"author_id":"Dayna+S.+Rubin"},{"text":"What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["antiques","books","bookstores","solitude"],"id":136184,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["antiques","bequest","collecting","gift","gifts","quiddity"],"id":187012,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the 'Come and get me, copper!' sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint. And we have one great ally: greed. And make no mistake. Greed is everywhere, like weather.","author":"Jonathan Gash","tags":["antiques","fraud","greed","lovejoy"],"id":191314,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gash"},{"text":"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["antiques","descriptive","life","personality","present","women"],"id":213237,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Going by Dr. Marriott's description, Zoe imagined it to be small and elegant as she peered into dozens of shelves, rummaging through the contents. There were globes and charts and atlases, pocket watches and hand-painted Indian silk, gold-plated cutlery, litter coffers of spice, inlaid combs, silver fasteners, trinket boxes, blown-glass figurines, turn-of-the-century postcards with foreign stamps, and portraits of Victorian authors in elaborate frames. But nowhere did she discover a stone of any kind, with or without runes.","author":"Christine Brodien-Jones","tags":["antiques","atlas","charts","cutlery","fasteners","figurines","globes","indian-silk","painted","pocket-watches","postcards","runes","spices","stamps","stone","trinket-boxes"],"id":255669,"author_id":"Christine+Brodien-Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}