Collector’s Guide

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…

Collecting Postcards: Part Two

One of the most exciting aspects of postcard collecting is finding what are called “real photo” postcards. They look like old black and white photographs because that is what they are:  real photos. Instead of being printed on a press,…

Collecting Postcards: Part One

As someone who has searched something on eBay, you know what you invariably find at the end of many categories:  postcards. So, why not collect them? Besides being able to then call yourself a deltiologist, you can have fun collecting something…

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