Collector’s Guide

Considering Donating an Item To a Museum?

I had a long conversation with my CPA recently, in which we discussed exactly what the Internal Revenue Service requires if you want to take a tax deduction for an item you plan to donate to a museum. Before going any further, however, let me…

Treadway-Toomey Auction Slated For Saturday

Treadway Toomey Auctions is holding their next 20th Century Art & Design auction this Saturday, September 16th. The sale has over 700 lots of fine furniture, decorative arts and fine art. The sale and preview will be held at John Toomey…

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…

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