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  • All I Want for Christmas is................ An Antique Pirint

    4:14 PM PST, 11/4/2011

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    Luyken's "Historia" - "JESUS HEALING SERVANT"- Hand-Colored Engravings -1708

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    ANTIQUE PRINTS make excellent Christmas gifts! Reasons why ANTIQUE PRINTS make excellent Christmas gifts: • They are personal. The recipient will appreciate your thoughtfulness, and will likely keep the artwork forever in the family. • The cost is so reasonable. Our original antique prints, 100-400 years old, can be purchased for as little as $10.00. Now that’s reasonable. • You can shop for our antique prints at one location –this one! They’re easy to buy and to handle. Sitting down one evening and selecting unique antique art for everyone on your shopping list will save you time and money. No running all over town, and most of all, no overspending on silly items. You’re done! • Shipping is a bargain. Just ask, and we’ll include a gift card and ship to the recipient anywhere in the world. Your cost is $3 (U.S.) or $6 (International). Buy 5 or more prints, shipped to one location – shipping is FREE! Ideas for ANTIQUE PRINTS as gifts: • A print from the city where the person was born • A Family crest featuring the Family name • A Tartan depicting Family heritage • Antique art to remember that special vacation • A print depicting a certain Bible story • Children will love our prints on their bedroom, playroom walls • Antique floral, bird, animal, costume prints make excellent gifts • A print of an antique for an antique collector • Prints for your Den, Study, Kitchen – anywhere –and so much more SANDTIQUE offers more than 7,800 antique art prints in over 40 categories Prints that SANDTIQUE-Rare-Prints.com offers: • ANIMALS & REPTILES (338) • ANTIQUITY PRINTS (106) • ARCHITECTURAL (556) • ART DECO & NOUVEAU (4) • BIRD PRINTS (530) • BOTANICAL PRINTS (494) Flowers & Wild Flowers (119) Herbs & Ferns (119) Leaves & Trees (44) z- Misc. Botanical (109) • BUTTERFLY & MOTH PRINTS (27) • CHILDREN'S PRINTS (168) • CITY SCENES (134) • COSTUME PRINTS (225) • COUNTRY SCENES (301) • DESIGN & DECORATION (353) • EPHEMERA (160) • FASHION PRINTS (67) • FINE ART PRINTS (427) • FISH PRINTS (85) • FOLKLORE PRINTS (53) • FURNITURE & DESIGN (226) • GENRE PEOPLE SCENES (23) • GREEK & ROMAN ART (327) • HERALDRY PRINTS (189) • HISTORICAL PRINTS (566) • HUMOR & SATIRE (374) • INSECT PRINTS (107) • MARINE PRINTS (48) • MEDICAL PRINTS (56) • MUSICAL PRINTS (34) • NATIVE AMERICAN (63) • ORIENTAL PRINTS (44) • PORTRAIT PRINTS (628) • PRINTS OF ROYALTY (121) • RACES OF MAN PRINTS (91) • RELIGIOUS PRINTS (455) • SCIENCE & MECHANICAL (55) • SHELL PRINTS (66) • SPORTING PRINTS (52) • TRAVEL & EXPLORATION (176) • UNIFORMS & FLAGS (46) • WAR PRINTS (155) • z - LOTS OF PRINTS (34) • z - RARE MAPS (268) • zz - RARE BOOKS (1) • zzz - ANTIQUE RUSSIAN ICONS (9) CONSIDER GIVING ANTIQUE ART PRINTS TO ALL THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS ON YOUR GIFT LIST. CHECK OUT www.SANDTIQUE-Rare-Prints.com NOW.
  • The Weirdest Antique Prints That I Have Ever Seen !

    2:51 PM PST, 9/26/2011

    The Weirdest Antique Prints That I Have Ever Seen ! I have been in the business of buying, selling and collecting prints for over 30 years and just recently I acquired the weirdest set of antique prints that I have ever seen. They came from a delapitated book called "THE BOOK OF WONDERFUL CHARACTERS, MEMOIRS AND ANTECDOTES OF REMARKABLE AND ECCENTRIC PERSONS" by Henry Wilson and James Caufield. It was published in London in 1869. The book was full of cartoon portraits of actual wierd people that lived in Europe in the early 1800's. There are several pictures of vagrants who walked the streets. Example are Margaret Finch; The Queen of the Gipsies and Thomas Hudson; remarkable for his Misfortunes. There are small people such as Joseph Boruwlaski; The Poish Dwarf, and Matthew Buchinger; The little Man of Nuremburtg. There are also big people like Daniel Lambert; of Surprising Corpulency. There are people that are almost unbelievable such as Thomas Parr; Who Died at the Age of 152 years. My favorite is Barbara Urslerin; The Hairy-faced Woman. (above) Several of the wonderful characters probably were in a circus. For example Jacob Hall; The Rope Dancer and Daniel Cuerton; and his Asonishing Feats (above). Several of the vintage prints are of people that had interesting eating tendancies. There is Francis Battalia; the Stone-Eater, and Eve Fleigen; Who Lived on the Smell of Flowers. For me it is intersting for someone who has heard stories of one of these persons passed down through the family from generation to generation, to be able to find a 142 year old characterature of that person. Framed and hung in the family room, it would be the talking point for family gatherings for years to come. There were 60 unique, antique, portrait prints available less the 7 that sold within two hours of my listing them. Sorry, Barbara, the bearded lady is gone. _________________________________________________________________ About the Author: SANDTIQUE is one of the largest sellers of Antique Prints and Rare Maps on E-Bay with over 7,500 listings. Sandtique specializes in chromolithographs and hand-colored engravings and has antique prints in 40 plus categories. Check us out at www.sandtique-rare-prints.com.
  • Why California Was An Island For 250 Years

    4:44 PM PST, 9/18/2011

    Why California Was An Island For 250 Years From the early 1500's when it was first discovered until the middle of the 1700's, California was thought to be an island by many people. In fact, some of the most noted cartographers published maps showing "The Island of California". Some of the exploration voyages sent out to determine if California was indeed an island, returned with the news that "The Island of California" was an Atlantis-Like paradise inhabited by large, dark-skinned women (no men). Obviously, they were misidentifying the Baja California Peninsula as the island in their reports. Determining the truth should not have been so difficult. You place a marker on the land and then take a boat and circle the island until you see that marker again. If you don't come to the marker again then - no island. Some of the possible reasons responsible for the "Island or No-Island" controversy are: • The explorers sent out to check if California was an island were drinking too much of that ship's rum. • Why take the time to find out - who is going to check, so tell them what they want to hear. • They were paid more for discovering an island versus an extension of mainland. • Apparently, the island rumor was started by Juan de Fuca - He should have stuck to his straights. The issue was finally settled beyond all dispute in about 1776, the year of the "Declaration of Independence". One of the Many "Island of California" Maps Owning a map with California as an island would make an interesting conversation piece. You could hang it on the wall next to your square map of the world. _________________________________________________________________ About the Author: SANDTIQUE is one of the largest sellers of Antique Prints and Rare Maps on E-Bay with over 7,500 listings. Sandtique specializes in chromolithographs and hand-colored engravings and has antique prints in 40 plus categories. Check us out at www.sandtique-rare-prints.com.
  • An Antique Print Has Nine Lives (at least)

    1:58 PM PST, 8/31/2011

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    Wilhelm's Naturgesehichte - Hand Colored Engraving -1809- FIVE MICE & MOLES

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    An Antique Print has Nine Lives An antique print has nine lives. I will demonstrate this by following the history of a 200 year old print and track it from the time it was created to the present time. Each change in state or ownership will be considered a “life”. LIFE 1 The print started as a sketch executed by an unknown artist that traveled by ship to Africa with an unknown explorer. The timing was the late 1700’s or about the time of the Napoleonic wars. LIFE 2 The sketch was transformed into a copper engraving by Jacob Xaver Schmuzer. He did the best that he could but as you can see below, the lion looked “interesting”. Schmuzer had never seen a lion in real life – very few people had. LIFE 3 Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm of Germany had the engraving printed and put together in a group of books called Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschiche. (Discourse on Natural History). LIFE 4 The next person to change the state of the print was the colorist. This person took the black and white engraving and turned it into the colored print that you see. It is likely that the colorist was a young girl. Today, the printer would be guilty of child labor infringement rules. The person that ordered the set of books must have been wealthy because hand colored prints cost 3 to 5 times as much as uncolored ones. LIFE 5 In approximately 1810, the set of books was purchased and became part of the library of a wealthy owner. Keep in mind that the books in this library went through almost two centuries of variable temperatures and conditions. Air conditioning was not invented. LIFE 6 This particular life was long and lasted ten generations. It was passed from family to family and from library to library. During this time it lived in three different countries and even spent about 40 years unopened and stored in attic. LIFE 7 An antique “picker” bought the books that were falling apart and sold them to a customer in America. The print looked forward to the trip. LIFE 8 I bought the book which and rescued the print. After over 200 years, the antique print was ready to live its next life. It was ready to become appreciated. LIFE 9 The print of the lion or tiger is now ready to take it to its next life. You can buy it, mat and frame it and hang it on your wall. Anyone that sees it will say “that’s a cute line”. Is it not appropriate that our antique print examples that have nine lives are cats? At some point in the future we will tell you the story of a print from 1560 that has fourteen lives. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ About the Author: SANDTIQUE is one of the largest sellers of Antique Prints on E-Bay with over 7,500 listings. Sandtique specializes in chromolithographs and hand-colored and has antique prints in 40 plus categories. Check us out at www.sandtique-rare-prints.com.
  • You Can Own Priceless Greek & Roman Statues !

    11:21 AM PST, 7/24/2011

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    By Zanetti Greek Statues DIANA (GODDESS OF HUNT) Antique Copper Engraving 1743

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    OWN PRICELESS GREEK & ROMAN ARTIFACTS You can own "priceless" Greek and Roman statues and artifacts. Although virtually all of the original pieces are housed in museums around the world, antique prints of these antiquities are readily available, even on E-Bay. MANY CHOICES TO BE MADE There are several choices to be made. You can collect both Greek and Roman art or you can specialize in one ancient country. You can generalize in all antiquities or you can zero in on one of statues, bas-relief, ceramic pottery, gold and silver household items, nudes, weapons or other museum quality pieces. If you are interested in Greek or Roman Gods or Mythology, the choices are vast. Included are Achilles, Andorra, Apollo, Bacchus, Jupiter, Juno, Hercules, Isis, Marathon, Neptune, Ulysses, Vulcan, Zeus and many, many more. You can also collect antique prints of the city ruins of such cities as Athens, Pompeii or Rome. Another viable choice is to target a literary subject including tragedies such as Homer's Iliad or Oddessey or one of the Greek comedies. Several of the most well known Authors and Artists that brought you these rare antique prints during the 1500's to the late 1800's were Zanetti, Milligen, Flaxman, Heck and Pistoesi. ENJOY YOUR COLLECTION EVERY DAY Unlike many other collectables, antique prints can be seen and enjoyed every day. Frame them and hang them. Buy wisely and your collection should increase in value. They don't make ancient statues of Greek gods anymore and they do not make antique prints any more. You can purchase a genuine antique print more than 100 years old for less than a print purchased at one of the "MART" stores that was printed in China last month. ________________________________________________________________ SANDTIQUE is one of the largest sellers of antique prints on E-Bay with over 7,300 Antique Prints. It has over 300 dealing with Antique Greek & Roman Art with prices ranging from $12 to $995. Check us out today ! http://stores.ebay.com/SANDTIQUE-Rare-Prints
  • Historical Importance of Engravers

    3:29 AM PST, 7/15/2011

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    Antique Print from Egenolff's Herbarum - "HELLEBORUS ALBUS" - Woodcut - 1563

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    Engravers in the Middle Ages had an important influence on history. With the start of printing in the mid 1400's and with engraved images increasing in quantity and importance in about 1500, historical information was, for the first time, passed on quickly and widely through illustrated printed books. Since 16th century engravings contained many symbols, the engraver of an image that was to be included into a book, to some extent, influenced history. Remember that a large degree of printed, illustrated material at that time was religious and often times included in illustrated bibles. The printing medium of that era was the woodcut. The image was engraved into the end of a block of wood, it was inked and then each woodcut engraving was pressed one by one. These prints were executed on hand-made laid paper using daylight or candlelight. A good example of a woodcut engraver that influenced history was Virgil Solis (1514-1562) of Nuremberg, Germany. He was an associate of Martin Luther (1483-1546) and executed the wood engravings for Luther's first illustrated Bible in 1561. (Also called the "Bible of Palantine"). Solis is said to have "changed the Epoch of Bible illustrations". With this he was able to take a part in the Reformation. Solis's busy engravings, with several activities occurring in different parts of the small antique print at the same time, were much more exciting than those used in other bibles of his time such as the Calvin Bible. His work is also said to have influenced the first bibles produced in the English language. Unfortunately, Solis lived at a dangerous time and even though he and Luther escaped being put to death as martyrs, Solis died of the plague in 1562. About the Author: Sandtique is one of the largest sellers of Antique Prints on E-Bay with over 7,200 listings. Sandtique specializes in chromolithographs and hand-colored engravings and is featuring original woodcuts by Virgil Solis from the 1561 Luther Bible. Check us out at www.sandtique-rare-prints.com