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The Things We Carry - 'Antiques Roadshow,' personal account
Seeking appraisal at the Antiques Roadshow As I remember him, Rabbi Sidney Wolf was short and thin. My grandfather had wispy white hair and wore rimless ......(Continue Reading) Living with antiques: the Jesse Van Slyke house in Schenectady, New York
Nestled in a bend of the Mohawk River, Arent Van Curler (1619/20-1667) and others established a frontier trading post in 1662 called Schenectady (probably ......(Continue Reading)Wyndham Lewis: an exhibition within the Fine Art, Design & Antiques fair Olympia London 1-6 March 2005
WYNDHAM LEWIS 1882-1957 In his day admired and abhorred in equal measure, now Almost forgotten or ignored, this artist and author had a Devilish insight ......(Continue Reading)Living with antiques: the Crane and the Ware houses united
The Crane and Ware houses were brought together by collectors Frank Attardi and Linda Dano. The house, formerly owned by the Crane family of Durham, CT ......(Continue Reading)Thomas and Blanch Sully in London - father and daughter spend time in London while Thomas completed portrait of Queen Victoria
Perhaps the first important thing to know about Thomas Sully's famous portrait of Queen Victoria (P1. 1) is that it did not precipitate his trip to London in 1837. The commission for the portrait c...(Continue Reading)
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