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Know Your Antiques: Ziegler and Their Carpets
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Spring 2002
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Zieglers are among the most sought-after antique carpets in today’s market. Their gracious size, subtle color combinations, and uncluttered patterns make...
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Museum Focus: Lemon Hill & Its Gardens
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Spring 2002
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Along the banks of the Schuylkill River, a few miles from the center of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stands a group...
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New Discoveries in Baltimore Painted Furniture
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Spring 2002
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Baltimore painted furniture has excited the eyes of antiques collectors and museum curators since the early twentieth century. The first exhibition to feature examples...
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Thomas P. Moses: Artist, Musician & Poet of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Spring 2002
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Thomas Palmer Moses has long been recognized as a marine artist and folk painter, yet the facts about his life have often been confused. Most writers have misidentified his birth and...
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What Is It Worth? Windsor Chairs
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Spring 2002
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Windsor chairs were once the seating of choice for many in Colonial and early Federal America. The market for these American icons...
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The Appraisers' Registry: 22 Years and Still Going Strong
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Special to Web site
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When my wife and I came to the United States from England in 1948, we found we had to be self-employed to make ends meet. We started by making marmalade in Hamilton, Massachusetts...
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An Introduction to American Sporting Art
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Winter/Spring 2002
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By the mid-nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution had created an upwardly mobile middle class in America that enjoyed time for leisure pursuits such as hunting
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Curator's Choice: The Winds of Fame
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Winter/Spring 2002
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Pheme, or Fame, exists beneath the clouds in the ether between earth and sky. Her eyes never close, she never sleeps, and she sounds her trumpet to herald news both...
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Eighteenth-Century English Enamels
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Winter/Spring 2002
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The English fashion for decorative painted enamels spanned nearly a century, from the 1750s into the 1840s. When first introduced from the Continent, their colors, sophisticated designs...
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Exceptions to the Rule
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Winter/Spring 2002
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To become proficient in the evaluation of antique furniture, the student must understand the basic concepts of construction, methodology, and design. When learning...
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