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Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Form Follows Function

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  QUESTION: While I normally associated blonde furniture with the 1950s, I was surprised to see a chest at a recent antique show that the d...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

On the Lamm

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  QUESTION: My grandmother has been collecting fancy cups and saucers for several decades. Some in her collection are simple in design, but...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Capturing the World in Bronze

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  QUESTION: Recently, I attended an antique show where one of the dealers had a modest collection of what he called Vienna bronzes. These l...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The Original Cafe Chair

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  QUESTION: I recently purchased two bentwood chairs at an antique shop in a nearby town. Both have woven cane seats and the number “14...
Monday, February 5, 2018

To Restore or Not—That is the Question

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QUESTION:  Hi, my father, who is 93, has a chest his grandfather brought over from Sweden. I'm pretty sure its a Biedermeier. It has ...
Monday, December 5, 2016

How About a Cuppa?

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QUESTION: My mother collected cups and saucers from dinnerware sets for years. She was also a great tea drinker. Recently, she died and...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Bent Into Shape

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QUESTION: I recently purchased two bentwood chairs at an antique shop in a nearby town. Both have woven cane seats and the number “14...
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Bob Brooke
Writing has been my life and my work for the last 30 years. During that time, I've had the opportunity to explore a variety of subjects, researching many of them on travels to over 70 countries. I’ve also been an avid collector of antiques and collectibles and specialize in writing about antiques. My antiques articles have appeared in many antiques and consumer publications, including British Heritage, AntiqueWeek, American Antiquities Journal, and Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine. I have also published two books on antiques, How to Start Your Own Antiques Business in Your Home and Recognizing and Refinishing Antiques for Pleasure and Profit, both from Globe Pequot Press. Throughout my writing career, I've produced nearly 4,000 articles and 15 books. I write non-fiction because I feel that fact is infinitely more interesting than fiction. However, in one of my latest books, Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure: The Outer Banks from Globe Pequot Press, I crossed the boundary between nonfiction and fiction, writing an historical narrative of the harrowing disasters in the seas off North Carolina.
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