Buy, Sell or Hold?
After my good friend Robert Hause sent me the photographs of the Karl Kipp stamp box which first appeared last week in our Collector's Guide, he emailed me back to let me know he had had several offers to buy it. Robert, who is a talented woodworker…
The Man Who Opened Up the Arts & Crafts World For Us
In 1972, the year "The Arts & Crafts Movement in America" opened to little fanfare in Princeton, New Jersey, I was an idealistic, naïve, war-protesting English major in Illinois, searching for a job teaching high school students how to…
Four Simple Steps To Avoid Buying Fraudulent Furniture
I encountered my first example of a fake Gustav Stickley shopmark more than twenty years ago, when I was living in Durham, North Carolina. A reputable antiques dealer who had sold me a legitimate Gustav Stickley two-door bookcase a few months…
Blinded By a Case of Tunnel Vision
Last week, as I was writing my piece on collecting the sterling silver of William Waldo Dodge, I was reminded of an experience I had almost twenty years ago that still makes me wince today.
It was May 17, 1993, and I was preparing to interview…
To Share Or Not To Share? – That Was the Question
While many of you may not have been collecting Arts & Crafts in the 1970s and 1980s, for those of us who had started to notice this distinctly American style of furniture, art pottery, metalware and architecture, it was a time of excitement…
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ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.