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(Young Collectors)It's a Wonderful Life
The Young Collector
During some recent travels, we stayed with dear friends with two little children, each almost exactly three years younger than one of our children. So, of course, their lives are still full of the overwhelmingly large feelings that lead to tears on the battlefields of early childhood—meals and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Tall Clocks and Tide Pools: A New England Anniversary Adventure
The Young Collector
If you’re going to tell a joke, you need to make it funny. Otherwise, you run the risk of no one realizing that you were kidding. Andrew came home this summer from a consultation with a client and said he had a challenging problem: how to get a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Privileged Life
The Young Collector
We like the new place, it turns out. First of all, most houses built in the 1970s were built by people who had lived in houses from the 1920s, so you don’t even have to get out of your chair to find an outlet. There’s none of this ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Homeward Bound
The Young Collector
Have you ever seen one of those old submarine movies where the cook is rummaging under bunks for potatoes? Or maybe one where the crew is running out of air, and there are only minutes to spare before everyone suffocates or has a complete mental breakdown? While we ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Ups and Downs of Deaccessioning
The Young Collector
At the time of this writing, it’s the middle of summer in a mostly boxed-up house with two bored small children whose entertainment choices seem to be digging in the dirt, riding a tricycle in circles on the deck, reading, coloring, watching whatever PBS is showing, and seeing ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)What I Did on My Summer Vacation: A Tale of Engine Lathes and Tadpoles
The Young Collector
What would summer camp for adults be like? Probably a lot like the annual Historical Ceramics Symposium, informally known as “Dish Camp,” at Eastfield Village in Nassau, New York—meaning people who share similar interests, time spent in nature, good food, and plenty of beer.
After a scheduling conflict prevented ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Show Booths: A Style Guide
The Young Collector
At the risk of repeating ourselves, selling antiques is hard work. There’s all the driving around and browsing auctions and hauling heavy things in and out and up and down; there’s all the calculating of margins and costs; there’s the mental load of keeping a rolling sense of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Do or Do Not
The Young Collector
Have we mentioned we’re busy? Oh, we are. We are so busy. We are trying to run two small businesses and find a house to move into and get a house ready to sell. We are awash in forms and documentation and bank statements and bookkeeping e-mails. There ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Comfortably Numb
The Young Collector
The world is getting smaller. Computers have collapsed distances virtually, at the same time that dropping phone prices have made keeping in touch over long distance easier as well. Our kids will never understand that we had to retrain their grandparents to start calling us before 11. Even ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)What a Wonderful World
The Young Collector
The walls start to close in around the end of January each winter. It’s a tiny house. We’ve all been together unrelentingly since Christmas and without large-scale diversion since about two weeks after Christmas when the toys lost their luster (and their pieces). We have eight enormous windows, ... (Read More)
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