Recently added articles from Antiques Roadshow Insider:
On the air.(ON THE LOOKOUT)
Nov 01, 2009 ... On Nov. 2, 9, and 16, PBS presents encore episodes of Antiques Roadshow's visit to Louisville (original air dates: 2008). Hour 3 features Simeon Lipman's appraisal of a real ...
A tad more Tiffany.(THE FIRST WORD)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2009; ... One of the things I routinely do in preparing each issue of Insider is to get an appraiser's take (or a couple of appraisers' takes) on the topics of the month. In this issue, Jane Viator does a wonderful job sizing up the impact of Louis Comfort Tiffany, calling on Arlie Sulka of Lillian ...
Automaton magic.(ON THE LOOKOUT)
Nov 01, 2009 ... Spirited bidding pushed the price of a Roullet & Decamps automaton to $68,000 at Skinner on Oct. 10, nearly doubling the high end of the estimate ($25,000-$35,000). The c. 1890 French piece features a 28-inch-high female magician in front of ...
Jump!(ON THE LOOKOUT)
Nov 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A bidder at Morphy Auctions spent $37,500 for a cast-iron mechanical bank of a girl skipping rope. Made ...
A legacy of color, class and style: met Tiffany 2: Louis comfort Tiffany, a true giant in American decorative arts.
Nov 01, 2009; ... The first Mr. Tiffany was Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902), the founder of the famous luxury goods stores whose robin's-egg blue boxes still make hearts beat faster on gift-giving occasions. His son Louis Comfort, born in 1848, disappointed his father as a young man by declining to enter ...