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,…
The Case of the Umbrella Stand Pan: Was Gus Guilty?
As you know from reading last week's article, I had received an email from an Arts & Crafts collector who has a Gustav Stickley oak umbrella stand missing its metal drip tray in the bottom. "Some years ago," Andrew wrote, "I purchased from…
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