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	Please Note We do not appraise merchandise or "What's this Worth". We are a newspaper for antiques & collectibles and do not buy or sell merchandise.
	ON THE COVER Those Comedic Leap Year Sets..By Roy Nuhn It's that special time again! February 29th. Leap Day. Every four years it rolls around to help keep the world from going crazy. Without an extra day every fourth year, we would be having our 4th of July barbeque in the snow and welcoming in the New Year with champagne, noisy horns, and a heat wave.
	Q. I recently acquired an old dressing table (vanity?) at a garage sale and didn't really check it out thoroughly before I threw it in the truck. Now that I am ready to clean it up and use it I have a real problem. I can't get one of the drawers open.
	Everyone knows the basic antique furniture styles, right? Queen Anne with the rounded chair shoulders, vase shaped splat and cabriole legs, Chippendale with the ball and claw foot and the pierced splat and of course William and Mary, one of those dark clunky old English styles that used to be in castles in the Middle Ages.
	Preserving Our Past: The White Queen of the Gulf A mighty grand Victorian hotel still sits in Belleair, Florida, off State Road 699, but the question is for how long? The hotel's construction 115 years ago was the impetus for the town's creation and has long been the center of society. But now the hotel's owner of one year, KAWA Management of Miami, has filed for a demolition permit with the Belleair Town Commission to raze it, and simultaneously petitions for a change in zoning laws to build an enclave of town homes on the land, a high bluff overlooking Clearwater Harbor.
	Q. This dark purple glass bear jar was tucked away in my late Grandmother's drawer. No one in the family knows anything about it, except that it is old. A dealer told me it was probably "Sandwich Glass." What does that mean and how old is it? Is it batter that a garage sale item and what is the value?
	Stamp Collectors Honor Barbara Jordan It couldn't have been easy growing up poor and black in Houston, Texas back in the 1930s. Barbara Charline Jordan was born there in 1936, the youngest of the Reverend Benjamin and Arlynne Jordan's three daughters. Barbara's parents knew that the best way for their girls to get ahead was to get a good education. Barbara's father used to tell them, "No one can ever take away your brains!"

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