Collector’s Guide

Shop of the Crafters: A Research Report

by J. McCracken and Michael McCracken.   A grant was received from the Arts and Crafts Research fund to support our research on the Shop of the Crafters in Cincinnati, OH. The Shop of the Crafters is one of the lesser known Arts and Crafts…

Frost Arts and Crafts Workshop

After reading Brad Clark’s letter which I printed in this week’s Little Journeys, I was curious to learn more about the Frost Arts and Crafts Workshop. A quick Google search took me to a familiar, reliable website: ChicagoSilver.com. Sub-titled…

A Gummy Situation

In going through some old files, I found this chain of correspondence I felt would be fun to run again: May 25, 2010 Dear Bruce, I recently discovered that the old armchair I found in a house is a Gustav Stickley chair. As I was cleaning…

Spooning

Thirty years ago, when my first son Eric was born, my good friend Emyl Jenkins sent me a small Wallace Silver Company spoon, along with a note that said, “Every child should be born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” That spoon had been…

Henry Windsor’s Finish Formulas

As you may now know from having read my brief biography of Henry Haven Windsor (1859-1922), between the years 1909 and 1912 the publisher of Popular Mechanics wrote three volumes of Mission Furniture: How To Make It. In 1980, Dover Books reissued…

To Refinish — or Not To Refinish?

Collecting and living with Arts and Crafts furniture carries with it both responsibilities and challenges. We have a responsibility to care for, protect it, and preserve its original design, construction, and finish. But what do we do when the…

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