Collector’s Guide

Arts & Crafts Profiles: Q & A with CEO Lucy Toomey

by Kate Nixon This week's Arts & Crafts Profiles peers into the world of auctioneering - with Toomey & Co. Auctioneers in Oak Park, Illinois. A family business now in the second generation, they are considered a premiere specialty auction…

Results of Rago’s Unreserved Auction

by Kate Nixon The results of Rago's August 24th Unreserved Auction - in which plenty of Arts & Crafts era items were featured - saw a range of sales from a deal below the estimated price to paying above and beyond the high estimate. The…

What Makes Grueby Great?

I gave a talk at the 2013 American Art Pottery Association's Convention entitled "1901: The Year That Set the Arts and Crafts Movement in Motion." My initial research had originally focused on the changes that took place in the workshops of…

“Am I Covered?”

  No one likes to think about experiencing a fire, earthquake, theft or even an accidental breakage, but unless you know the limitations of your insurance policy, your loss may be compounded by the discovery that your insurance company…

Should I Buy Painted Arts & Crafts Furniture?

With yard sales and moving sales in full swing during the summer months, it's not unusual to see cast-off, painted antique furniture. But what if that canary yellow chair was a Stickley original? I even recall seeing an article many, many years…

William Morris Pen Sells at Overseas Auction

The early icons of the British Arts and Crafts movement got plenty of attention in Dorset in the UK earlier this month - bidders placed their bids in person, online, or over the phone during an Art and Design Auction, put on by Duke Fine Art…

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