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I opened an antique dresser drawer, a stiff, corpse-like doll stared up at 12-year-old me. I reeled back in horror, and never liked dolls from that day. As a twist …

I make a habit of seeing the BEST in all objects and hold onto objects that are damaged or need repair. I call these objects “my orphan-things” and it gives …

SM from the St Anthony’s Community asked me to appraise their altar candelabra. This gave me a private moment in that 1927 Chapel. Throughout California in the late 1920s towns …

Steiff Toys take me back to a little Midwestern redbrick house in 1960s Deerfield Illinois. A burly gentleman who didn’t speak English carried a four-foot-long walrus with a blue bow …

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 …