Katherine Kreider is a recognized authority and visionary in the preservation of the Valentine. Kreider has collected and archived antique valentines for the last 30 years and has a premier privately held collection. Kreider's efforts have been showcased on The Antiques Roadshow FYI 2005, Martha Stewart Living TV 2000-2003, Kovels Antique TV, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, Money Magazine, Country Living Magazine, The Antique Journal, Antiques Today, Renningers Newspaper, Courier-Post, Auction News just mention a few. Kreider has also made appearances on the Joaquin Bowman's WBUX radio show, What's New in Antiques, Bucks County, The Morgan Wright's Art Workshop, radio show from Boston, Mass., Ray Mansfield, Let's Talk Antiques, Linwood, New Jersey, Bloomingdales etc.
Kreider has authored three books on antique valentine cards, Valentines With Values, One Hundred Years of Valentines, and Valentines For the Eclectic Collector.
She has written for numerous national publications such as: Collector's Showcase, Paper Pile Quarterly, Barr's Postcard News, etc. etc.
She is the advisor for Schroeder's Antique Price Guide since 1992, The Flea Market Trader, and The Garage Sale & Flea Market Trader. She has lectured and exhibited portions of The Kreider Collection from the West Coast to the East Coast, from the oldest women's club west of the Mississippi, The California Woman's Club, San Francisco, The Oakdale Museum, The Renfrew Museum, The Lancaster County Museum of Art and The Victorian Society of Philadelphia.
Katherine and her husband, David own and operate Kingsbury Antiques, in Adamstown, PA, located within Stoudt's Black Angus Antiques Mall, Booth #315, which is open very Sunday throughout the year. Kingsbury Antiques has the largest offering of antique valentines for sale in the country. If Kreider doesn't have it she will do her best to find it for you.
Katherine and David are both members of The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. Kreider lives the Valentine experience every day of her life! This gives her first-hand knowledge of the market place, market trends, and market values nationally.
Please keep your cards and letters coming, a quest such as this in life can never be accomplished alone, it takes a united effort from collector/dealer and the interested by-stander to help preserve the "original valentine" from extinction. In this day of the e-card, we find new meaning to the words: "They don't make them like that anymore!"
You may write or call:
PO Box 7957
Lancaster, PA 17604-7957
Please enclosed a self-addressed stamp envelope.
Remember, Valentine's Day is every day of the year!!
Happy Pre-Post & Valentine's Day,
Katherine Kreider
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