A Remington? See/Smell it First
Imagine you’re an appraiser and TB sent you what appeared to be a copy of a famous painting “Caught in the Circle” by Frederic Remington (1861-1909)? TB’s painting sports a …
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Imagine you’re an appraiser and TB sent you what appeared to be a copy of a famous painting “Caught in the Circle” by Frederic Remington (1861-1909)? TB’s painting sports a …
SP owns a primitive ceramic sculpture of a recumbent lion at 5” x 10”. Is it a bookend? No, it’s a sewer tile, although not a tile at all. This …
Are you an Artist? Then this Appraiser wants to speak to you about selling in today’s art MARKET. WHAT is your strategy for SELLING your art? I’m a career Appraiser …
MP might purchase a lovely piece of late 19th century pottery, which looks quite modern. It could have been potted yesterday. She found it for sale at Punch on State …
Mary Anne sent me photographs of a collection of dolls she wants to sell. She packaged them up in original boxes. The dolls are part of the “Victorian Collection” by …
What are these “little disks?” wrote VA, a reader all the way from South Africa. She said her Uncle collected these odd tiddlywinks. She has no idea where he got …
CH sent me a photograph of a ladderback rocking chair given (tradition has it) to CH’s great-grandparents as a wedding gift from CH’s great-great-grandfather in Ohio. Let’s describe the rocker …
I snapped up this illustration of a tiger observing a singing bird on a branch, at Destined for Grace Thrift Store in Goleta. The signature reads “F S CHURCH.” One …
F from Santa Barbara once owned a large collection of art glass, now mostly sold. But he saved a little glass pitcher with “Gladys” written on it in enamel pant. …
JS owns a painting on porcelain of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), not painted in the way we usually picture the Emperor. Here we see a sad little …