Collector’s Guide

Stickley Candlesticks Steal The Show at Rago’s Auction

Sometimes you just can't explain it. Last week it was a Roycroft copper planter that sold for $92,000. This week it was a pair of Gustav Stickley copper candlesticks, estimated at a reasonable $3,500-$5,500, that two collectors battled over…

Rookwood Auction Reveals Collectors’ Whims

If it was Rare and Important, it did fine. If it was simply Nice or Good, it struggled. With nearly a glut of Rookwood pottery hitting the auction blocks in May and June, most of it within a stone's throw of the original kilns in Cincinnati,…

Wet Weather Could Not Deter A&C Collectors in Chicago

The weather may not have cooperated, but it takes more than a little rain and some cool weather to keep Arts & Crafts collectors away from a great show. This past weekend both Arts & Crafts antiques dealers and contemporary craftsfirms…

The Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis

The Eastwood Gallery (http://www.eastwoodgallery.com) in St. Paul has posted this important piece of information on a little-known but very important Arts & Crafts enterprise called The Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis. We have supplemented…

Auction Fever – Catch It!

Spring brings with it a fresh round of Arts & Crafts auctions, as you can see in our Calendar of Events here at Arts and Crafts Collector.com. Auctions have always been a primary source of great material for collectors, for in addition to…

A Suspicious Shopmark Hits a Sour Note

Arts & Crafts pianos are like Arts & Crafts clocks: find a Stickley shopmark on one and a common, everyday example suddenly becomes a rare – and valuable – masterwork. And that seems to be what has recently happened to an ordinary,…

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