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• Lost Mozart Manuscript Found in Library

  24-06-2026 17:15 via antiquetrader.com
  
  Page 10 of the manuscript, showing “Andante de Mozart (1st violin and bass) and Mlle. De Guines (2nd violin).” Image: Élle Ludwig, Bibliothèque nationale de FranceNew music by Mozart made its world premiere this year on June 22. France Musique aired excerpts from six previously unknown pieces for flute and harp, performed by two musicians from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, nearly 250 years after their composition.The discovery of the pieces was the crown
  
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• $100K Baseball Cards are Late Brother’s Legacy

  24-06-2026 16:29 via antiquetrader.com
  
  1933 Goudey cards at Legends Sports & Games in Kentwood, Michigan. Image: WoodTV/Legends Sports & Games.An elderly woman was in for an emotional surprise when she walked into Legends Sports & Games in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a tin box of baseball cards. She was wondering if the cards, which she had found two years before among her late brother’s things, were “duds or diamonds.”WoodTV in Kent County, Michigan, reports that the woman and the store employees were
  
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• From Work of War to Work of Art

  24-06-2026 15:26 via antiquetrader.com
  
  A series of casings transformed into art—note “The Great War” piece on the right. Image courtesy RelicRecord.There is something powerful about an object that has lived two lives diametrically opposed to each other. In the case of trench art, that transformation is especially striking. Instruments of war, once designed for destruction, are reshaped by hand into objects of beauty and remembrance.Most closely associated with World War I and World War II, trench art is less about w
  
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