Collector’s Guide

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…

Quartersawn, Plain Sawn or Rift?

At last February’s National Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn, a young couple pulled me aside in the antiques show and apologetically asked if I could explain to them the difference between plain sawn, quartersawn, and rift…

Edward Curtis Exhibition Opens in May

The Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan, will open Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, an exhibition of national significance, on Thursday, May 11 with a Native American Blessing Ceremony at 5:30 pm, followed by an opening…

Building an Arts and Crafts Wall

As we well know from reading Frank Lloyd Wright, Elbert Hubbard, Gustav Stickley and others, the Arts and Crafts philosophy applies as much to our exterior spaces as it does to our interiors. Just as we have learned to prefer native oak over…

Unsigned? Perhaps not . . . .

A few weeks ago, when I wrote about a Gustav Stickley-Grueby tile top table that was up for auction here in Asheville, an out-of-town friend called asking if it had water-damaged legs and, if so, if any wood had been cut off the bottoms of them. I…

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