Starting a Collection
Five Auction House Mistakes That Cost New Collectors
I have been watching new collectors make the same five mistakes in auction rooms for twenty-five years, and I have made all of...
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Everything we have published, newest first. Buying guides, identification notes, and the arguments we have had with advice that gets repeated without being tested.
Starting a Collection
I have been watching new collectors make the same five mistakes in auction rooms for twenty-five years, and I have made all of...
Silver and Metalwork
I once ruined a piece of Victorian silver by cleaning it.
Period Furniture
Victorian wicker and cane furniture was one of the great disregarded categories of the antique trade for about forty years,...
Ceramics and Porcelain
Three categories of English earthenware sit next to each other on the shelves of every good antique ceramics dealer, and they...
Care and Preservation
I write about six valuation letters a year for clients who need their antiques scheduled on insurance policies, and the process...
Starting a Collection
Three terms get used interchangeably in the trade, and doing so causes real financial harm.