An Antiquarian's Tale

Power, if you look back through the ages, is expressed most overtly by what an empire builds. ("Ozymandias", Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem on the ephemerality of that power is a...

London life for the wealthy in the 18th century included all sorts of pastimes. In a book I recently finished, "Aristocrats" by Stella Tillyard, she writes about the four Lennox...

Dealers of antiques always look for "smalls", items that sit on or around furniture that can captivate potential buyers for either the small itself or the furniture.

I was very lucky to have a father who could network in ways that few could surpass. He seemed to know everyone. He succeeded in getting me a job in...

The news I hear from the UK about English antique furniture sales by the trade is very positive, meaning that the US is lagging in its appreciation of English antiques.

I received my copy of "Industry and Ingenuity, The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew" (not Jane Austen's missing manuscript of the love affair between a clergyman and a...