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LW called while her friend’s house in the Palisades still smoldered. She asked this important homeowner’s insurance question: “Elizabeth, W didn’t have an appraisal for his contemporary lithography and modern …

JE sent me photos of two pieces of a five-piece set of Copeland-Spode covered dishes circa 1900. Both the style and the form of the dishes point to the late …

This 1880s cruet stand, once the rage, tells delectable stories. HU sent me a round swiveling carousel of silver plate inset with five crystal cruets, topped with an elaborate silver …

The Boys and Girls Club Thrift Store in Ventura seemed an unlikely place to find a Kundalini yoga ‘sound bath’ practitioner’s quartz crystal singing bowl. JE wrote me that her …

My daughter-in-law Meredith asked for the gift of the early 20th century white Damask banqueting tablecloth once owned by my great-aunt. Perhaps your family set tables this past season using …

My family treated each other to two nights over the holidays at a bougie hotel experience in Encinitas instead of forcing one member to host Christmas. The pricey hotel experience …

RF owns two exquisite Japanese woodcuts. She couldn’t make out the signature, but I did. Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) became a leading artist of the Shin-hanga “new print” movement of the …

This early 19th century medal, an Order of Knighthood, may share a connection to my partner’s family history. You see, my partner’s last name is Flandrick, Province of Flanders, with …

HH owns a 1920s sterling and enamel medallion from the Royal Antediluvian (‘before the flood’) Order of the Buffalo in red, white, cobalt, and turquoise. Fattorini and Sons LTD, Jewelers, …

HH’s grandmother from Boston told him Duncan Phyfe made the table she left him. Almost everyone with an East Coast grandma runs the risk that she’ll say Phyfe made her …