(SOUNDBITE) (French) BELGIAN COLLECTOR AND FORMER REAL ESTATE AGENT, YVETTE DARDENNE, SAYING: "I consider this box to be the first of my collection. It is a box of 'Cote d'Or' chocolates that a ...

GRAND-HALLET, Belgium (Reuters) - The colourful tins piled high around Belgian collector Yvette Dardenne used to contain goods ranging from chocolates, toffees, coffee and rice to tobacco, talc and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel, I look for good food when I do, and I write about both. This article is more than 10 years old. The 1964 World’s Fair, ...

It's a hobby that can turn into the real thing – some fan-art film posters are so good that they end up in galleries or even earn the artist a chance to work with Hollywood’s biggest names. That has ...

With the runaway success of l’Eroica in Italy (with its 17th edition just completed and now about to be franchised to the United Kingdom and Japan), retro-rides continue to blossom. With the ...

QUEEN MATHILDE OF BELGIUM hardly ever wears her engagement ring, choosing instead to wear a ring from her 10th wedding anniversary. But what did her original engagement ring look like? Queen Mathilde ...

began collecting vintage lithographed tin boxes some 30 years ago (SOUNDBITE) (French) BELGIAN COLLECTOR AND FORMER REAL ESTATE AGENT, YVETTE DARDENNE, SAYING: "I consider this box to be the first of ...

GRAND-HALLET, Belgium (Reuters) – The colourful tins piled high around Belgian collector Yvette Dardenne used to contain goods ranging from chocolates, toffees, coffee and rice to tobacco, talc and ...