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(Young Collectors)Risky Business
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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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Small People, Big Changes
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe world would be a better place if doing the right thing were always synonymous with doing the easy thing, but it isn't, and nowhere is this more apparent than parenting. OK, maybe the words "easy" and "parenting" shouldn't even appear in the same sentence, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Sweet Sorrow
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: In the Belly of the Beast
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIt was bound to happen eventually, we suppose. Everyone slips up. Everyone gets desperate. Everyone needs a new mattress sometime.With the end of a second pregnancy ahead, Hollie was done sleeping on an old mattress. (Did we not mention that? Bean is going to be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Young Collector: From House to Home
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? (No, really, where were we? We usually can't remember.) That's right—our panel discussion in Chicago as part of the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair. During the discussion, it came up that we (the antiques business and the American people) don't have ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Midwest Musings
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond Nora (a.k.a. Bean) is quite the jet-setter baby or would be if we ever did anything as glamorous as "jet" anywhere. Instead, she's usually gazing contentedly out the windows of a big white Ford van at the landscape of I-70 (71, 77, 80, 90, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Love and Luck
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe used to joke that we were going to have T-shirts made that said, "Auction Work: It's Not Just a Way of Life, It's a Life Sentence." Coming up on the end of our first decade in the business, we don't find that to be ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: The Turnpike Blues, or Why Is Pennsylvania So Wide?
by Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisSome people wear hair shirts; some people self-flagellate; some people go to Wal-Mart on Saturdays; and some people look forward to the first quarter of the year. Andrew is one of these first quarter people. After a trip to New York City for Americana Week ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Phoning It In
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondTechnology and identity:http://tinyurl.com/6roz7uzFuture phones:http://tinyurl.com/6meqtr6Hybrids:http://tinyurl.com/3zmonb5Dark side technology: http://tinyurl.com/7tvxbaaAround this time of year, it becomes difficult to remember why being so connected, so flooded with news, could have ever been desirable or even seen as a good thing, what with the constant yammering of campaign ads and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: New York Minutes
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondFrantic has a sound. At 1:30 in the morning, it sounds like a baby with teething-related night terrors. At 4:30 in the morning, it sounds like a spouse who has overslept and is about to miss his flight to New York City for Americana Week. ... (Read More)
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