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  2. Antiquities Act - Wikipedia

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    The Antiquities Act of 1906 (Pub. L. 59–209, 34 Stat. 225, 54 U.S.C. §§ 320301–320303) is an act that was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906.

  3. 7 Antique Items From the 1800s that Are Worth Thousands of ...

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    Antique items generate plenty of attention due to their high quality and rarity. These designs require the type of artsmanship that you can't easily mass produce. Read More: 3 Signs You've 'Made ...

  4. Antiquities - Wikipedia

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    Allegories of five literatures of antiquity, relief at Cardiff Castle, by Thomas Nicholls circa 1870. The sense of antiquitates, the idea that a civilization could be recovered by a systematic exploration of its relics and material culture, in the sense used by Varro and reflected in Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews was lost during the Middle Ages, when ancient objects were collected with ...

  5. Antique - Wikipedia

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    An Antique shop in Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan An antique map. An antique (from Latin antiquus 'old, ancient') is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely to describe any object that is old. [1]

  6. Antiquities trade - Wikipedia

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    The antiquities trade is the exchange of antiquities and archaeological artifacts from around the world. This trade may be illicit or completely legal. The legal antiquities trade abides by national regulations, allowing for extraction of artifacts for scientific study whilst maintaining archaeological and anthropological context.

  7. 'Antiques Roadshow:' See a whale tooth worth more than $150K

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    Engraved on the tooth is a picture of the ship Francis, which artist Fred Myrick served on during the early 1800s. Now, sperm whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. So, in ...

  8. Arts and Crafts movement - Wikipedia

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    William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862. The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.

  9. 1800s (decade) - Wikipedia

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    The 1800s (pronounced "eighteen-hundreds") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1800, and ended on 31 December 1809.. The term "eighteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899 (the years beginning with "18"), [citation needed] and is almost synonymous with the 19th century (1801–1900).