Collector’s Guide

Touring Wright’s Taliesin West

The Darwin Martin House Restoration Corporation (MHRC) has organized an architectural study tour of Taliesin West and the Greater Phoenix area to celebrate the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday from November 2-6. Attendees…

Do You Have A Real Elbert Hubbard Signature?

Or is it an "approved" forgery? Books, articles, letters, manuscripts, editorials and essays flowed forth from Elbert Hubbard’s pen at a pace no other writer of the Arts & Crafts era could match. From 1896, when Hubbard personally printed…

Not Quite A Yellow Brick Road

While spending time recently at Cottage Hospital in Galesburg, Illinois (population 32,000), I took some long walks around the town’s oldest residential neighborhood. In an ironic reversal, in 1836 the town of Galesburg actually evolved out…

Deck Decisions Revisited

Several months ago I wrote a column on the various types of decking boards and my opinion of a few of them. This past week I built a 6' x 8' deck in front of our new garden shed, which led to me power-washing it, then to power-washing two of…

Buying Painted Pieces

With yard sales and moving sales in full swing, 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 ago in which the author…

Roycroft Shopmarks: A Guide to Dating

My friend and Arts and Crafts Conference speaker and discussion leader David Kornacki, who manages www.RoycroftCopper.com, agreed to help me clarify much of the confusion swirling around the various marks used by the craftsmen at the Roycroft…

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