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Just Be Yourself
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Let’s talk for a minute about Brimfield. No, not that one, another one (named for that one), a little farther west: Brimfield, Ohio. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it. Most people haven’t. Brimfield, Ohio, gets lost easily, pinched as it is between the suburban sprawl that ... (Read More)

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Ten for Ten
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Time flies. It really does. Except when it’s 5:30 p.m. and you’ve been up since 6 a.m. and home with two small children, one who doesn’t need to nurse and needs to sleep but wants to nurse and doesn’t want to sleep, and the other who does not ... (Read More)

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Listing or Capsizing?
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector We live and die by lists—mostly die, it seems—but at least we do it in an orderly fashion! Nowhere is this truer than with our annual planning of the Midwest Antiques Forum. Four years ago, when the folks at Prices4Antiques.com (www.p4a.com), Hollie’s employer, said they thought the Midwest ... (Read More)

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Things Are Looking Up
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector  We’ve pretty much given up complaining about wanting to talk to real people, haven’t we? After lots of complaining in the 1990’s about the growing numbers of “Push one for…” phone systems, we’ve just sighed and gone on about our business. The Internet, most would say, has only ... (Read More)

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Rules to Live by
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Andrew’s dad, Bob, has been working on his legacy—a list of his personal rules for life, success, general happiness, and whatnot. This started with Andrew’s grandfather Frank. Near the end of his life, he was riding in the car with Bob, and he said, “You know, I think ... (Read More)

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Point, Click, Bid!
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector We’re not lazy people. Trust us. In the past 48 hours we have gone to two grocery stores, the post office, the gas station, the pet store, and the bakery; worked on four upcoming lectures; made the necessary preliminary notes for this column and cranked out 800-plus words; ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: Gray Matter
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector  We’ve become a sound bite society. Actually, that’s kind of a sound bite itself. The term dates to the 1980’s during the Reagan era, when the nightly news was undergoing a dramatic makeover. Maybe it was residual news fatigue from the constant crisis state of the early 1970’s ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: 2012: The Year in Review
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Another year gone already? Wow, they go so fast, especially when one notes that this time last year the small person who lives in the house was the only small person, unable to walk, unable to use fork or spoon, and able to say only about a dozen words. Now, ... (Read More)

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Risky Business
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Call it sentimental reflection brought on by our new arrival (Nathaniel Byrne, or Nat, as we call him, arrived on November 16 at 2 a.m., and we’re all fine and deeply in love already), but sometimes we like to look at Nora and joke about how she came ... (Read More)
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