Games
What Online Games Capture About the Thrill of an Auction
Few things in collecting match the tension of an auction, the racing pulse as bids climb and a coveted piece hangs in the...
Furniture and decorative arts writer, page 5 of 7
Edmund trained as a cabinet restorer, which gives him an angle most writers miss: he has taken apart enough pieces to know what the construction tells you about the date. He writes about period styles, joinery and how condition grading affects resale.
Games
Few things in collecting match the tension of an auction, the racing pulse as bids climb and a coveted piece hangs in the...
Starting a Collection
Collectors of antiques and period pieces sometimes look down on sporting memorabilia, and they are wrong to.
Starting a Collection
Collectors who come to period automobilia from the furniture or silver side often underestimate how well-developed the field...
Care and Preservation
I spent five years working as a cabinet restorer before I moved into writing, and one of the odd things about that job was how...
Period Furniture
I have taken apart three period card tables in my restoration career, two Georgian and one late Victorian, and each one taught...
Starting a Collection
The wall of my workshop has a Vincent enamel sign from 1948 hanging above the bench, and I paid 60 pounds for it in 2003 at a...