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The Young Collector: Past the Halfway Point
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

>by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAround our house, Hollie's always taking things apart to fix them and putting them back together. If we're going to have to call someone in anyway, we might as well take a crack at it first, right? More than once, with the dishwasher disassembled or ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector's Guide to Last-Minute Gifts
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe've been watching our annual round of holiday specials including How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original cartoon, not that ghastly thing with Jim Carrey), and we've decided that there is a great deal of symbolism in that scene where the Grinch's little ... (Read More)

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The Last of the Young Collectors?
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondNo young collectors are coming to save the marketplace. It's not happening, no matter how long we wait. We've skirted around that issue for a while now, and maybe it's time to put it out there. We realize it's a harsh reality, but ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: What's It Worth?
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAs expected, we get that "What's it worth?" question on a constant basis. There are other versions, but the underlying question and expectation is the same: give me a dollar value. And we do that on a constant basis too, but after listening to a ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: Riding Out the Storm
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSeveral months back, Andrew got an invitation to speak at the Historic New Orleans Collection's Antiques Forum. When we started discussing whether he had the time to put the talk together and to make the trip, Hollie's response was, "When someone invites you to visit ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: A Collector by Any Other Name
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondYou can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's. We can't comment much on the early 90's, as our concerns at the ... (Read More)

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Top Ten Reasons Young People Should Buy Antiques
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSometimes in life you become an expert by default. This can be a useful skill, especially in terms of parenting, when anything, even complete non sequiturs like "Santa Claus likes broccoli," can bluff the opposition if said with enough conviction and an air ... (Read More)

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Nurturing the Nature of Young Collectors
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAfter quite some thought and careful consideration, we've decided that converting young collectors is a very slow process. We've arrived at the conclusion that it might be faster to make them. As a result, sometime around Labor Day (insert wisecrack here), we'll be ... (Read More)

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Texas (and Several Other Places) in the Rearview Mirror
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond We've been at it again. Within the last month, we've been to Delaware for the Winterthur furniture forum, to Texas for the Round Top shows, and to Wheeling, West Virginia, for the Oglebay show. This year, Andrew decided we'd drive to Delaware on Wednesday, ... (Read More)

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The Young Collector: Connoisseurship Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSome time ago, we talked about how we believe the "good, better, best" paradigm had run amok with "best" becoming the focus, as the paradigm seemed to be moving toward "junk, less junky, worth owning." Now we've started wondering if the whole idea of connoisseurship ... (Read More)
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