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HG scored this book at a flea market. Daisetz Suzuki’s Zen and Japanese Culture – a classic printed in hundreds of languages. Bollingen Foundation, known for publishing books of significant impact …

DD sent me a seafront shot of what she thinks is a view of a church and a bathhouse. Note both sections of the photo. I searched for a similar …

$14.2 billion!! That’s the total income for fine art Christie’s and Sotheby’s generated through auctions and private sales. The figure shows a drop of 13% from 2022 at $16.4 billion. …

PJ said he wants to sell pair of candlesticks that don’t match his wife’s taste. He inherited them from someone he had little connection to. Their significant heft made him …

An artist in Montecito received a gift of a unique ceramic charger plate found at a thrift store in Goleta. It’s signed ‘M Arntz.’ She wrote about the blue glaze …

I discovered pasted-down Green Stamps in Grace’s bottom drawer when she passed away at 101. Seeing them transported me back to our kitchen table in Deerfield, Illinois. Young Elizabeth watched …

FM of Montecito sent me a photo of his grandfather’s vintage Mallory hat. He wonders what became of the venerable custom and manufacture of American fedoras. The story is a …

SR sent me this pink and blue gold gilded porcelain bottle with an ornate gold stopper and interesting “scoop” or funnel to the top in metal. She called it a …

FK, an older resident of Montecito, sent me a Kodak photo of her Temple Lion in the US Post (snail-mail). She asked if her Chinese ceramic was in fact late …

When a museum welcomes an object or collection, values rise for objects with similar provenance. A reader’s Bob Dylan collectible vinyl album serves as a great example of this phenomena, …