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It’s 1956 and your mom and dad are shopping for furniture. They’ve recently been to New York to see the 1954 exhibition “Design in Scandinavia,” curated by Canadian designer John …

My evaluation of a Japanese mourning kimono inspired S.L. in Santa Maria to sends me this gorgeous Chinese Mandarin robe. Look at the back of the robe and you will see …

I often present Antique Road Show style events throughout the country. Last year I spent such an afternoon at my son’s business in Durham, NC. A young man brought in …

C.G. from Lompoc sends me a plea – he has a Gorham sterling silver tea service circa 1922, which he had appraised in 1980 for $6,500, at the top of …

AB’s Uncle served in Vietnam, and brought this sculpture back in the 1970’s. AB wants to know if it’s jade, and what the figures represent. Because jade is HOT and …

C.L. has an oil on canvas by Carl Sammons at 12” x 16”, which unmistakably pictures our Santa Barbara shoreline. Sammons was a prolific California Plein Air artist who began …

MB from Carpenteria sends me a photo of his late brother’s Philco Predicta TV set, circa 1958, which features an outer spaceship-shaped swiveling 21” screen, attached by a remarkable single …

JF found a lovey etching with aquatint called “Bogland,” signed by living Irish printmaker John McNulty, edition number 122/175, signed and dated 1980’s. An etching, a type of intaglio print …