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This Anton Friedrich Josef Schütz etching captures the American spirit of the modern, growing metropolis of New York City in 1926. The work by an artist and founder of the …

Silently listening, a 150 year old square grand piano hid in the bowels of the Lobero Theatre. It stood in a coffin-shaped box wedge vertically in a corner, without legs, …

I polled ten of my favorite clients for their buying or selling regrets regarding their collections of art, records, automobiles, antiques, contemporary culture, and books. Many clients wished they’d never …

This pair of mated horns engraved with iconography of Australia showcases the scrimshaw technique. Forty years ago in an antique shop, the somewhat sad face of the Prince of Wales …

BH owns an Italian watercolor genre painting featuring a classic genre style figuration. A buxom peasant girl wearing a very loose blouse listens to a man who leads a burro. …

The audience waiting on the steps of the Lobero Theatre on Sunday night December 9, 1957, consisted of hip jazz lovers, some from the College Jazz Club, sponsors of the …

TG sent me a lovely etching of Scarborough Harbor in England circa 1920 at thirteen by five inches. She asked if I know the artist. I do. The artist is …

What should I do with my fine porcelain dinnerware? I hear this question weekly. The market for ceramics softened across the board due in part to the lack of young …

SB owns a red and white American quilt which belonged to her great-grandmother. Created in the late 19th century it shows the star pattern known as the shooting star, the …

BL sent me a fabulous yellow Steuben glass set, a barware service designed and created in the late 1920s by Frederick Carder (1863-1963). He headed Steuben glass from 1903-1930. BL …