Why Presidents’ Day? – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2012 By Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell, The Halloween Queen® Lincoln, Jefferson, the two Roosevelts, and Adams both father and son, were great men and worthy of days of their own.…
Midnight in Paris: An Antique Textile Dealer’s Passion – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2012 By Frank Ames Before I begin my story about the Kashmir shawl, let me go back a few years and explain how this…
Fantasy: When Fruits and Veggies Act like You And Me! – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2012 By Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell, The Halloween Queen® Dreams of gossamer winged fairies, Ogres, pixies, the wee people, and anthropomorphic beings are…
Art of the Needle: Masterpiece Quilts on view at the National Heritage Museum – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – June 2007 Art of the Needle: Masterpiece Quilts from the Shelburne Museum is an exquisite display drawn from one of…
Guess What Article for June 2007 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” This month’s GUESS WHAT is based on what we like to refer to as the “Stipulation Premise” – wherein we acknowledge and stipulate what it does, but you…
The Price Structure of the Antiques Trade – Business of Doing Business – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – June 2007 By Ed Welch Most people will agree that a Queen Anne table is an item of high value. Such…
Glass Flowers of Harvard to Bloom at Corning Museum of Glass – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2007 Scientific marvels; drop-dead beautiful works of art; a genus onto themselves: these are just a few of the explanations given…
Guess What Article for May 2007 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” The trail of a GUESS WHAT can be long and winding– With hours spent – looking… before ever finding. An oddball something – both strange and rare; As…
Five Hundred and Four Elephants – Business of Doing Business – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2007 By Ed Welch The Wanted to Sell ad read: Four bow front china cabinets. Asking price $1,000, firm. I called…
Majolica Around the House The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2007 By Jeffrey B. Snyder Majolica, that soft-bodied earthenware molded in low or high relief decoration and glazed with a startlingly broad palette of brilliant lead glaze colors,…
