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(Young Collectors)2016: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
We normally pause after the holidays and reflect on the year behind us. That’s not so much because it’s the end of the year, but mostly because we’re usually lying in bed sick, sure we’re going to die, and it seems like a good use of time to ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Objects Less Fortunate
The Young Collector
Last month we talked about poverty and the related stigma of being poor, speculating on how it might affect the attitudes of modern Americans toward antiques. Yet poverty and the reactions to it don’t happen in a bubble. As with racism and many other -isms, they become institutionalized ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Poor State of Affairs
The Young Collector
In the wake of the election—which is the most political thing we intend to say in this column, so come on back here for a minute!—we have read any number of think pieces on the various strains of rural, southern, working-class, urban, and minority poverty; picked through myriad ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)For Your Reconsideration
The Young Collector
Sometimes people ask what it’s like to write a column, to come up with something new to talk about each month. That, we say, is easy. That it’s just about having opinions, of which we are not short, and, hey, you know, being right all the time! So ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Closing the Gap
The Young Collector
In September Andrew attended the 2016 annual conference of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH). Earlier this year two of his graduate school classmates, always looking for a chance to be supportive, suggested that they build on their experiences as museum professionals and combine Andrew’s ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Lost in Translation
The Young Collector
You know how when you say a normal word like “apostrophe,” “tailgate,” or “dentistry” over and over that after a while it becomes divorced from its meaning and begins to sound like complete nonsense? Yeah, well, funny thing, but that happens after you read auction catalogs or sales ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiq-onomics, Part Two
The Young Collector
So, where were we? Oh, yes! Last month, when we left our fictional auctioneer/dealer hero(ine), he or she was at the bottom of an enormous fiscal hole just about to have the glimmering light of entrepreneurship cruelly snuffed out by the hulking evil Free Consultation and his henchmen ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiq-onomics, Part 1
The Young Collector
When Andrew began his life in the auction business, he was excited. He was fresh out of graduate school at Winterthur and the University of Delaware, where he’d spent hours in quiet, climate-controlled, well-lit rooms reviewing individual pristine, iconic Americana objects at his leisure. Then he showed up ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Lessons Learned
The Young Collector
In April Andrew debuted as an antiques dealer. He discovered many things, including the fact that one of his favorite antiques-related jokes is true: Two antiques dealers were stranded on a desert island. Business was brisk. Ba-dum-bum.
The Ohio Country show, managed by Bruce Metzger of Queen City Shows ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Long and Winding Road
The Young Collector
There are people you like and people you love. For people you like, you return calls, pick up their mail every now and then when they’re out of town, send them a card at the holidays, and like their photos on Facebook. For people you love, well, you ... (Read More)
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