Collector’s Guide

Pottery Lovers Converging on Zanesville This Week

The annual Pottery Lovers Convention is being held this week in Zanesville, Ohio at the Holiday Inn Express. Billed as the oldest and largest pottery show in the country, this gathering of pottery dealers and collectors takes place from Tuesday…

From Actor to Arts and Crafts Artisan

In 1898, at the age of 35, Charles Rohlfs hung out his shingle as a maker of “artistic furniture.” In contrast to the plain, undecorated early work of Gustav Stickley and Elbert Hubbard’s Roycrofters, this former cast-iron stove designer…

A Tribute to Dan Lopez

by David Rago   Antiques dealers are, by nature, misfits.  We spend years of our lives on the road and in the air, traveling to auctions, shows, and clients’ homes, sleeping, when necessary, in our vans or God forsaken motels. …

Van Briggle Pottery: Pick Your Decade, Color or Style

No one likes collecting something they hardly ever find, which helps explain the growing popularity of Van Briggle art pottery. Find an antiques shop or mall of any considerable size and odds are you’ll also find a piece of signed Van Briggle…

Which Is Best: Wax, Polish or Oil?

The answer is paste wax. If you want to know why, please read on. First, paste wax should not be confused with beeswax, liquid wax or any wax variation which you squirt or pour onto the wood, for those products have been diluted with mineral…

A Fake Roycroft Mark

A few months before last February’s National Arts and Crafts Conference at the historic Grove Park Inn, I asked David Rudd, co-owner with his wife Debbie Goldwein of Dalton’s American Decorative Arts in Syracuse, NY, if he would lead one…

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