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Article: Seventy-five years of 'The Magazine Antiques,' 1922-1997.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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It seems only yesterday that ANTIQUES was started, and that Wallace Nutting wrote me predicting complete and immediate failure. He said, modestly, that if there had been a chance for financial success for a magazine devoted entirely to antiques, he, Wallace Nutting, "the leading expert and collector in the country, "would have started one.(1)
This gloomy and, fortunately, inaccurate assessment was contained in a letter from Lawrence E. Spivak (1900-1993) to Alice Winchester, the second editor of The Magazine ANTIQUES. Spivak was the magazine's business manager and circulation director from 1921 to 1930 and in his letter he was quoting from a letter he had received ...