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GPI Furniture, Rare Kalo Shop Silverware, Large Roseville Vase and More Up For Bid March 8th
by Kate Nixon Furniture from the Grove Park Inn, a rare set of silverware from the Kalo Shop, and the largest vase in the Rozane catalog by Roseville Pottery: all three examples and many more lots will go to the highest bidder on March 8th. Toomey & Co Auctioneers’ Art & Design auction starts Sunday, March 8th at 10:00 AM CDT. Featuring properties from the estates and collections of the Collection of Rich and Patty Thumann of Tacoma, WA, The Paul and Terry Somerson Collection of 20th and 21st Century Metalwork and Jewelry, The Scott Stahr Collection of Barrington, …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
“Together We Grow Stronger”
In lieu of a regular column this week, I decided to print a portion of my opening remarks delivered at the33rd National Arts and Crafts Conference on Friday, February 21. Photo by Ray Stubblebine. I can’t help but get a little nostalgic each time I step to the podium here at the Grove Park Inn and look out over this wonderful crowd of smiling, receptive people. Who could have thought, thirty-three years ago, that a small gathering of curious collectors would make the trek down to Asheville and up Sunset Mountain to the Grove Park Inn – …
Collector’s Guide
Plail Brothers Furniture
by Bruce Johnson This article has been re-published. Date of original publication: March 14th, 2018. Within the Arts and Crafts furniture category of “the Best of the Rest” is the name Plail Brothers, who worked in upstate New York from around 1906 until 1933 making high quality furniture. Brothers John and Joseph Plail learned the furniture-making trade in Binghamton, NY, the same city where Gustav Stickley and his brothers had established their first retail store in the 1880s. John Plail (1868-1938), who had emigrated from Europe, had been trained as a woodcarver and woodworker, and soon displayed a talent …
Traveler’s Guide
Whether it be a museum with an Arts & Crafts collection, a nearby Prairie School home, a bungalow neighborhood, an Arts & Crafts gallery or a Frederick Law Olmstead park, just being able to add an Arts & Crafts side trip to our journey would add to our enjoyment and our education.
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How-To Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a video?
Here at ArtsandCraftsCollector.com we have been busy making brief, informative videos to educate and instruct viewers in a variety of aspects of Arts & Crafts collecting.
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Know Your Shopmarks
We are currently in the process of collecting, organizing, identifying and displaying on this website as many Arts & Crafts shopmarks as possible. And like our Reference Library, we need your help. While we have documented the shopmarks of the major Arts & Crafts firms, we need for you to email us a photograph of any shopmarks you have from lesser known firms, along with a brief description of the piece.
Shopmark Guide
Books Worth Reading
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
Reference Library
