1.   That crack has flawed the vase to the extent that its value in the antiques market is greatly reduced.

2.   Also a new column on the antiques market, ANTIQUES-NYT, will move on Thursdays.

3.   Carol Phillips from Houston, picks over a table of bagged buttons at one of the tables at the Brimfield, Mass., antiques market.

4.   Comparatively few of those pieces enter the world antiques market.

5.   Interest in pugs is evident at all levels of the antiques market.

6.   In tracing the individual histories, the author shows how many famous antiques came to be at the heart of the antiques market.

7.   The Brimfield, Mass., antiques market is held in May, July and September.

8.   Frequently, they are smuggled into Thailand and sold on the antiques market.