No, hasn't but, interesting house & family, the Vanderbilt's were Dutch farmers i think, settled in New Amsterdam (aka NYC) in the late 17th...
lol, no, not really! I'd still rather go to the coast! But, i get it, Asheville markets their stuff very well and if you've never been, worth the...
LOL, yeah, see what i mean? After a half dozen visits or so i have become weary of it but no matter, that's where everyone wants to go. I have...
UHHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOO, lol. Duplicate = exactly like something else, especially through having been copied. I have more than one of the same forms,...
Yeah, very nice little place, Asheville. Whenever i get visitors here in Charlotte that's ALL they seem interested in, ASHEVILLE! aka Biltmore...
OK, i am gonna be the odd man out here so no, i do not have any duplicates, not even close. When it comes to early american furniture they are...
Gee Wiz, I am guessing we won't be seeing many antiquers.com members at the Americana Winter Show in NYC every January, i think the min. ticket...
Nightmare! Not working at all or i don't know how to do it more likely! Sent the MAD article only to Google Drive which gave me a shareable link,...
Pilgrim Chamber Table Fiasco :dead: This table had fooled A LOT of furniture historians, collectors, dealers, museums and high end auction...
I don't, not real sure i'd want to do that again. Trying to tell someone who just bought their treasure that it's a fake isn't real easy to do.
Yep, that's true, at least for the present.
MOS, Yeah, i hear you, ignorance can be bliss however, when there are hundreds of thousands of dollars involved or more...........it can get...
I remember that incident, I think John T Kirk (inadvertent father of the grunge movement) had examined that chair and said it was good. The best...
Yeah, sometimes people want something to be true so much they don't examine the construction details as they should. I was involved with a fake...
OOPS, ART not ARK but it won't let me edit Figured it out, all better now
It’s one of the best folk art fakes of all time. It fooled them all: dealers, curators, vetters, journalists, and more. Story at the link...
Good point, people tend to forget how destructive war can be. It's one reason i think early american southern furniture generally speaking is more...
Yes, very cool story and one very happy and now very rich collector!
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