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Why Antiques Get Mis-Attributed - Six Reasons
Unfortunately, identifying an antique's manufacturer is sometimes an art and not always a science. It is not often that a 19th Century item has a patent existing to help us easily identify the maker as does the "lollipop
The Rare Victorian Store Launches
It's high time I selectively whittle my Victorian antique collection down as I have bought and bought and ran out of space to put it all in. Therefore, the Rare Victorian Antiques Store has been born! I will be adding mo
Enhanced iPhone Support
If you're an iPhone user and need your Rare Victorian fix while out and about, you should pop over to RareVictorian.com. I've installed enhanced support for iPhone and navigation is now quick and easy.
Antiques at the Armory, January 22-23-24
I am going to take a day off from the day job and head to NYC for this year's Antiques at the Armory show on Friday the 22nd. I'm going to pop by to meet Joan Bogart who will be exhibiting at the show. It has been long o
Fine Pair Of Victorian Tables And Satin Glass To Be Sold 10/11
Nevin at Circa 19th Century Antiques has put up several Victorian-era lots on Ebay that will sell by this Sunday. I will draw your attention to three of them in particular: A fine Renaissance Revival parlor table with de
Top 10 Antiques Blogs
I put together a top 10 Antiques Blogs list for Blogs.com and tried to make it very diverse in it's genres and topical coverage. I tried to include a sprinkling of general antiques news blogs mixed with very focused nich
Miniature Furniture Antiques
I enjoyed the video below of high quality antique miniature furniture produced by Antiques TV. These aren't your ordinary dollhouse furniture pieces - they are very well made and use high quality materials.
Need Tips On Visiting Cape May, NJ
photo by wasabi_bob There is a reasonable chance that I will be visiting Cape May soon and am reaching out to the Rare Vic community to see if anyone has tips on which houses to visit and places to antique/se
Twitter And The World Of Antiques
Since some of my regular visitors and blog subscribers own, operate, or work in the antiques business, I thought I'd take a momentary diversion to address the use of Twitter in the business of antiques. This will also be
Signs Of A New Generation Of Antique Collectors
A post that I did on the passing of Richard Wright in early March asked a question that a not-yet 20-year old site visitor named Frank Merante of Francis Clay Antiques answered in an email to me. His note gives me hope t
Gerald Lawhorn Collection At Hal Hunt Auctions
Major collectors of the best in American Rococo probably have already directed their attention to the February 21st Hal Hunt Auction of the Gerald Lawhorn collection. Lawhorn founded the Griffin, GA PetroSouth chain of g
Antique Purchasing Poll Results
It's been almost two days since I put up the poll on antique purchasing and the response distribution has stayed relatively the same since the early votes so I thought I'd share the results thus far. It seems that 50% of
Are You Tempering Your Antique Purchases In This Economic Downturn?
I had to resist signing a check and handing it over the the dealer who was displaying this birdseye Maple bedroom suite. I am in need of a bedroom set badly and my wife reminds me regularly about the bare mattress in one
Global and U.S. Antique Popularity Trends
As a website owner, I use a lot of tools to assess traffic patterns on my sites, and while doing so recently, I decided that I could use one of them to roughly judge global and U.S. trends for the antiques industry. I wa
Antiques Hit Hard Across The Board - Almost
As regular visitors to this site are aware, I've been watching the health of the Victorian antique market recently for concrete examples of this trend and I thought I'd take another quick glance at some fresh auction res
Joslin Hall Rare Books - Furniture & Cabinetmakers
For those of you who collect books on antique furniture and cabinetmaking, you may want to call Joslin Hall Rare Books and have them send you this catalog, number 313. It just arrived in the mail yesterday and it has 41
All Furniture Was Not Made In America
Sometimes I think that there is a rush to judge too quickly that antiques that we run across have been made in America. This bookcase is certainly a very nice one, but I think the tile inserts led the seller to believe i
Determining When Antique Furniture Isn't Old
I ran into these photos on Craigslist yesterday as I was looking for a Victorian bed. Craigslist listings may provide some good deals but their minuscule photos do not provide any means of checking the condition of the i
What Are Your Favorite Antique Stores?
A recent purchase of mine is the music cabinet pictured above and below. It is one of several finds that I've made at Stoudt's Antique Mall in Adamstown, PA. You gotta love an antique mall with 700 dealers and a brewery/
The Problem With Antique Attributions
I recently ran into this table whose title read "Fine Thomas Brooks Marbletop Table" and in the item description, "Thomas Brooks undeniable stylings", so I looked closer. I can't tell you definitively if this is a Thomas