In conversation with many dealers, auctioneers, and buyers, one phrase always comes up; at some point they talk about “the Roadshow mentality,” or “the Roadshow effect.”

Antique Trader is in the process of undergoing a series of exciting changes and improvements designed to better serve the antiques community. Some of the changes will take place within the pages of the magazine you hold in your hands. Some you will notice while sitting at a computer.

What a person possessed, or didn’t possess, always did – and still does – represent their place within a society. At one time it might have had implications about what you could do with your life, and where you could go.

A couple of weeks ago, we asked Antique Trader readers: How much have you used the eBay Live Auctions feature, and will this change affect your online auction buying? Here are their answers

Letters from Antique Trader readers.

These are iffy days in the American economy. No government official has come right out and said it, but the hints of the "R" word are everywhere.

Never let it be said that Antique Trader readers aren’t a diverse lot, as these pages have shown in the past few months, and as this week’s letters show again.

I take exception that large collections should be donated to a museum. Most museums are happy to get the collections but cannot display them properly. They end up packed up in the basement, never to be seen again.

‘Death Penny’ a symbol of freedom and honor; Human Statue of Liberty reminds us of service