Antiquing For Dummies E-Book

Ron Zoglin

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 513

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

"This is a fun and painless way to give yourself a firm grounding in the wide wonderful world of antiques and collectibles." Kyle Husfloen, Managing Editor, Antique Trader Weekly and Antique Trader's Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide Do you love to poke around estate sales and antique shops, but can't tell the difference between Queen Anne and Queen Victoria furniture? Do you dream of owning that old Oriental rug or Meissen figurine -- but worry that the dealer might gouge you on the price? Do you own pieces you think might be valuable -- but don't know where to go for a reliable appraisal? Relax. Antiquing For Dummies answers all your antiquing questions--and more. Whether you're a beginner or you've already gotten your feet wet, this fun, friendly guide will give you the savvy you need to cruise, schmooze, bargain for, and care for antiques with confidence. In no time you'll be able to: * Tell the difference between real antiques and stuff that's just old * Develop an antique hunt plan of attack * Select antiques based on the 5 key points of the "RADAR Test" * Discover hidden treasures at garages, estate sales, auctions, and shops * Get the best deals when buying and selling antiques * Decorate with antique glass and porcelain from around the world * Clean and care for your precious finds * Work an auction--real-time and online Writing with humor and common sense, Ron Zoglin and Deborah Shouse demystify the highfaluting terminology of the antique world. And step-by-step they walk you through all the antiquing essential, including: * Different furniture styles and periods of furniture and how to distinguish them * Dovetails, nails, and other construction elements that offer clues to a piece's age * Where to go for the best antique bargains -- includes tips on how to bid at auctions in person or online * All about antique glass, ceramics and silver * Integrating antiques into your life at home and at the office Antiquing For Dummies gets you up and running with what you need to know to find, research, and negotiate prices like a pro.

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Antiquing For Dummies

by Ron Zoglin

Antiquing For Dummies®

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About the Authors

Ron Zoglin: Being in the antique business is a daily blend of surprises, discoveries, interesting people, and fascinating objects. For nearly 30 years, Ron Zoglin has immersed himself in the world of antiques. He has studied them, bought them, sold them, appraised them, displayed them, and taught about them in colleges and universities. He has traveled the world searching out antiques that are beautiful and unusual and inspiring. As a senior member of the American Society of Appraisers, Ron has developed a large network of specialists with whom he consults regularly. His shop, Brookside Antiques in Kansas City, has one of the Midwest’s largest collections of European antiques, Oriental furnishings, and Japanese woodblock prints.

Antiques dovetail into one of Ron’s other passions: storytelling. As a professional storyteller, Ron has performed for businesses, universities, and national and international conferences. Ron feels that stories and antiques add a warmth and meaning that compliment and enhance life in this technological age. He loves to surround himself with a comfortable mixture of the latest in technology and an eclectic blend of lots of antiques. Writing Antiquing For Dummies is a way for Ron take his passion for antiques and share it with others.

Ron is an Accredited Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers, a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, an Accredited Member of the International Society of Appraisers, and a member of the National Association of Dealers in Antiques.

Deborah Shouse: Deborahis a writer, speaker, facilitator, and creativity coach. She loves to take dry, stilted material and make it exciting and readable. She loves to bring people together and invite in their creative skills. Her writing has appeared in periodicals such as Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Family Life, Christian Science Monitor, Healthy Living, and MS. She is a PEN winner and a Pushcart nominee. Her books include Breaking The Ice, Making Your Mark and Name Tags Plus. She co-authored Working Woman’s Communications Survival Guide (Prentice Hall), which is in its fifth printing. Deborah has been included in more than a dozen anthologies, including I Am Becoming the Woman I’ve Wanted, At Our Core, and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul.

Deborah has given workshops and creative expression seminars for businesses, colleges, and organizations. She provides creativity coaching services for authors, business professionals, and other visionary souls. Deborah loves to surround herself with a mishmash of antiques and thrift store things. (The antiques are starting to take over, since she’s been working on this book.)

Together, Ron and Deborah facilitate a variety of workshops that are both educational and entertaining.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to our magnificent parents

Frank and Mollie Zoglin

Paul and Fran Barnett

who are trying their best to become legitimate antiques in their own right

And to our amazing baby brothers

Robert Zoglin

Daniel Barnett

And to two of the world’s greatest daughters

Hilee and Sarah Shouse

Authors’ Acknowledgments

It takes a lot of smart people to write a ...For Dummies book.

The On and Beyond Club:

We had wonderful support and help from so many people in putting together this book.

Dennis Tesdell, antique dealer, appraiser, and writer, was a continuing source of information, ideas, and encouragement throughout the creation of the book.

Scott Bonnet, antique dealer and appraiser, shared generously of his time and expertise.

Kyle Husfloen, editor of Antique Trader, Tom O’Connor, editor of Glass Collector’s Digest, and Frank Dondadee, editor of The Collector generously advised us and helped us with information and resources. Shirley Northern, ISA CAPP, ASA, and president of the International Society of Appraisers and our esteemed technical editor, guided us to great resources and information. Others who gave extra time and energy and helped us “get it right and get it interesting” include these knowledgeable and generous folk: Pat Saultman, ISA CAPP, Butterfield & Butterfield; Jim Messineo, Boston, MA; David Lindquist, ASA, Chapel Hill, NC; Frank Levy, New York City; Gary E. Baker, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk,. VA; Gwendolyn L. Kelso, ASA, AAA. The staff of Brookside Antiques helped us all the way: Mollie Zoglin, ASA, and co-owner, who nourished us in so many ways; Tom Nimmo, manager, who contributed endlessly with his time, energy, and imagination; Rose Zoglin, who never said “no” to us when we needed her, and for that matter neither did Ann Bowen, Mary Bridgens, Fern Jessee, Inez Kaufman, Marion Rosen, Jeanette Wayne, Greg Mitchell, and Jackie Henson. The Furniture Crew and Rooms of the House crew: These people generously furnished us with wonderful information: Pat Saultman, ISA CAPP, Butterfield & Butterfield; Frank Levy, New York City; Donald Sack and Albert Sack, New York City; Katherine Voorsinger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Kevin Stayton, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Barry Harwood, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Donald Pierce, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Christian Carron, Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI; Bill Turner, New York City; Dr. Kenneth L. Ames, Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York City; Cecily Megrue, New Canaan, CT; Patricia Patrick, Vallejo, CA; Barbara Shandley, Bethesda, MD; Mimi Findlay, New Canaan, CT; Bernard Karr, New York City; Andre Ammelounx, Palatine, IL; Art Dimsdale, Kansas City, MO; Robert Wilson, Springville, CA; Les Paul, Alameda, CA; Jan Cummings, Kansas City, MO; David Lindquist, ASA, Chapel Hill, NC; Lyman McCallum, Charleston, NC; Jim Messineo, Boston, MA; David Brouhard, Kansas City, MO; John Hays, Christie’s; Mark Chervenka, Des Moines, IA; Jeannie Black, Memphis, TN; Leigh Miller, De Young Museum, San Francisco; Amy Babb, Dardanelle, AR; Carolyn Ducey, International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; Brent Goodsell, Syracuse, NY; Ara Zakaryan, Kansas City, MO; Massoud Tehrani, Kansas City, MO; Val Arbab, ASA, ISA CAPP, La Jolla, CA; Tony Stone, London, England. Buying and Selling Crew: Thanks to the auction houses that helped us with information and resources. These include Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Butterfield & Butterfield, Skinner’s, and Phillip’s; Also thanks to Sandi Fowler, N. Billerica, MA; Judy Ratcliffe, Southlake, TX; Harry Rinker, Emmaus, PA; and Goldie Meyers, Alva, OK. Some wonderful Kansas City help came from Wendy Hoffman, Sharon Mendus, Rick Pence, Lisa R. Payne, Larry Wiebusch, Cammie Boardman, Carol Staab, and Marilyn Hu. Glass Specialists: Gary E. Baker, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk Va; Kyle Husfloen, Dubuque, IA; James Measell, consultant with Fenton Art Glass, Marietta, OH; Jane Spillman, Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY; Gay LeCleire Taylor, Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ; Kirk Nelson, Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA; Tom O’Connor, Marietta, OH; Donald Jensen, ISA CAPP, Edmonds, Washington; Danny Gipson, Kansas City, MO; Barbara Lessig, Brookeville, MD; Wes Nedblake, Naples, FL; John Woody, Douglass, KS; Joe and Sharon Robertson, Kansas City, MO; Walter Poeth, Oakland, CA; Audrey Dickerson, Monroe, LA; Paul Nassau and staff, New York City; Ron Rosenberg and L.H. Selman, Santa Cruz, CA; Jeffrey S. Evans, Mt. Crawford, VA; Cheryl Kevish, Dillsburg, PA; Walt Nagorski, Kansas City, MO; Ellen Roberts, Butler, PA; John Shuman, Pottstown, PA; J. Alastair Duncan, New York City; Kenneth Wolf, Kansas City, MO; and Pepi Herrmann, Laconia, NH. Ceramics People: Susan & Al Bagdade, Chicago, IL; Beth Szescila, ISA CAPP, Spring, TX; Virginia Cannon, ISA CAPP, ASA, Decatur, IL; Chick Le Ganke, New York City; Becky Macquire, Christie’s; Frances Peterson, Kansas City, MO; Shirley Swaab, ASA, Melrose Park, PA; Stuart Slavid, Skinner’s; Logan Adams, ISA CAPP, Panama City, FL; Tim Allen, Richmond, VA. Silver Folk: Gwendolyn L. Kelso, ASA, AAA, Washington D.C.; Mary Ellen Heibel, ASA, ISA, Anapolis, MD; Kevin Stayton, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Rosita Kroeker, Shawnee Mission, KS; Tony Clark, McClean, VA; Sam Hough, Gorham consultant, Cranston, RI; Carole Gliedman, New York City; Beverly Bremer, Atlanta, GA; Nannette Monmonier-Schwesitzer, Ellicott City, MD; John Harms, Butterfield & Butterfield; James Wells, Kansas City, MO; Robert Puckett, Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, Wichita, KS; and Duncan Cox, New Orleans, LA. Decorating: Judith Choice, Kansas City, MO.; Erin Jones, ASID, Washington, D.C.; Susan King, New York City; Bobanne Kalkofen, ASID, Kansas City, MO; Jack Harris, Kansas City, MO; Lyn Fontenot, Ph.D., ASID, Lafayette, LA; Alene Workman, Hollywood, FL; Sandra Wisot, CID, Los Angeles, CA; Jan Cummings, Kansas City, MO; Robert Todd, Memphis, TN; Joanne Baehr, Kansas City, MO; Donna Bodinson, Kansas City, MO; Patricia Moriarity, Holyoke, MA; Susan Fenner, Kansas City, MO. Antiques by the Yard: Barbara Israel, New York City; Michael Garden, New York City; Judy Wells, Kansas City MO; Maggie Lindquist, Chapel Hill, NC; Quinton Matson, Lawrence, KS; Christopher Hamill, Lawrence, KS; Bruce Burstert, Kansas City, MO; and Piers Mackenzie, Butterfield and Butterfield. Orientalia: Michael Teller, Williamsburg, VA; Geoffrey Oliver; Pittsford, NY; Gary Levine, Sotheby’s; Mark Shimkus, Kansas City, MO; and Robert H. Ellsworth, New York City. Caring for Antiques, Appraising, and other Stuff: Penny Jones, AIC, Washington, D.C.; Craig Deller, AIC (PA), Geneva, IL; Donna Morris, La Verne, CA; Nancy Martin, ASA, Arcadia, CA; Karen Rabe, ISA CAPP, Lake Forest, IL; Laura Whitman, Christie’s; Tim Ward, Kansas City, MO;. Rodney Staab, Grinter House Museum, Kansas City, KS; Betsey Garret, Christie’s; Jay Kruger, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Jerry and Sue Faier, Kansas City, MO. The Research and Tracking Section: Paul Barnett made endless phone calls and helped us with all kinds of research issues. Thanks to Candy Schock and Robert Zoglin, who fly through the Internet with the greatest of ease. Ken Stinnett gave us endless technical help and encouragement. Thanks to the great Johnson County Kansas Library system, with special thanks to Corinth Library, Prairie Village, KS; the Kansas City, Missouri Library system; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; with special thanks to director Marc Wilson, Scott Erbes, Jeffrey Weidman, Stacey Sherman, Christina Nelson, Kathleen Garland, Paul Benson, and Robert Cohon. Cheerleading and creative encouragement section: We got so much help from so many creative people! Some of these amazing folks include Maril Crabtree, Sherry Schultz, Robert Brummet, and Dan Karamanski. Thanks to the wonderful people in the Kansas City Writer’s Group for their creative energy and loving support: Mary Lane Kamberg, Carol Newman, Terry Hoyland, Meg Huber, Alberta Daw, Judith Bader Jones, and many more helped with ideas and encouragement. Thanks to Andrea Warren and Barbara Bartocci for their continuing guidance and support, and to Mildred’s Coffeehouse for great scones and atmosphere. Thanks to Bev Cortiana, Charles Mallory, Billy Ray Boyd, Paul Anderson, Michael Friedman, Jacque Ensign, Jeffrey Marker, Geoph Kozney, Byron Nicodemus, Victoria Moran, Ruth-Ann Clurman, Anne Baber, Jackie West, Carolyn Hoppe, Susan Fenner, Guy Guber, and Jim Rzatkiewicz.

Thanks to our agent Carolyn Krupp at IMG Bach Literary Agency and to the wonderful people at Hungry Minds, including our patient and creative project editor, Colleen Totz, Holly McGuire, Maureen Kelly, Heather Prince, Jon Malysiak, and Catherine Schmitz.

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Contents

Title

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Who Needs to Read This Book?

How This Book Is Organized

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I : The Antiquing Primer

Chapter 1: Stalking the Wild Antique

Antiques, Collectibles, and Other Aging Items

Sears or Sotheby’s: Deciding Between Something Old and Something New

Preparation A: Researching Antiques Before You Buy

Chapter 2: Preparing for the Hunt: An Antiquing Plan of Action

Deciding on an Antiquing Game Plan

Strategies for Spending Your Antiquing Dollars

RADAR Alert: The Five Signs of a Valuable Antique

Chapter 3: God Save the Queen Anne: Basic Furniture Styles

Designing Men: Evolution of Style

The Parts of a Chair

Getting a Sense of Style

Furniture of the Sweet Seventeen Hundreds

Telling Apart English and American Furniture

Revival of the Fittest: Evolving 1800s and Energetic Early 1900s

Woodn’t It be Loverly: Learning about Wood

How to Look at a Piece of Furniture

Chapter 4: Dovetails and Nails: How to Spot the Real Thing from the Fake

The Lonesome Dovetail

Mark My Woods: Reading Between the Grain

Looking for Marriage in All the Right Places

Hardware, the Old Fashioned Kind

Case Study

Part II : Who’s Got the Goods? Shopping for Antiques

Chapter 5: Bargaining Basics: The Price Can Be Right

Preparing for Win-Win: Understanding Dealers

All’s Fair: Question the Price

Negotiating Strategies: Getting the Price Right

Chapter 6: Meet the Dealers: Antique Shops and Shows

Building Relationships the Antique Way

Curioser and Curioser: Antique Shops

It’s Showtime!

Ms. Antique Manners

Chapter 7: Sold on Auctions: Going Once, Going Twice

How to Get Going (At Least Once)

Preparing for the Auction Block

Bidders, Biddies, and Absentees

Strategic Planning: Taking Action in the Auction

The Wrap Up: Cash and Carry

Good News and Bad News

Chapter 8: Cruising for Fabulous Finds: Antique Malls and Flea Markets

A Mall and the Day Visitors

The Greatest Flea Circuses on Earth

The Accidental Antique: Sifting through the Thrift Shops

Chapter 9: Doing a Little Legwork: Estate and Garage Sales, Classifieds and Cyber-Buys

Wise and Wherefores of Estate Sales

Finding Antiques Parked at a Garage Sale

Classic Stuff in Classified Ads

Surf City: Antique Shopping on the Net

Part III : Material Possessions

Chapter 10: Glass Conscious: Glassware and Crystal

Something Old, Made by Whom: Tips for Glass ID

Thar he blows: Blown glass

Pressing the Glass and Cutting the Cost: Pressed Glass

The Colorful Post Civil War Days: Pressed Glass in Color

Glass’s Cutting Edge

Works of Late Victorian Era Art Glass

The Artistry of Art Nouveau Era Glass

The Paperweight Chase: A Weighty Matter

Chapter 11: Dishing It Out: Porcelain, Pottery, and China

Ceramics: Collecting Options

Finding the Secret Formula

Pasting Together Porcelain Particulars

Pottery: A Simple Recipe for Great Dishes

Something Old, Something New, Something Repaired, Something Glued

A Survey of Porcelain

Pottery Potpourri

Art Pottery in America

Chapter 12: The Metal Winner: Silver

The Silver Looking Glass: How to Look at Silver

Tally Ho Silver: English

Hi Ho Silver: American

Part IV : Integrating Antiques into Your Home

Chapter 13: Basic Decorating: Bringing the Past into Your Present

One Size and Color Does Not Fit All: Discovering Your Decorating Niche

Design Elements: Noticing the Good Lines

Starring Roles or Chorus Line: Auditioning Your Antiques

Togetherness That Works: Creating Scintillating Groups

Developing Your Foreign Accents: Combining Period Antiques

In Case You’ve Always Secretly Wanted to Work with a Designer

Decorating Tips

Chapter 14: Remembrances of Repasts Past: The Kitchen and Dining Room

Periodic Tables

Butcher Blocks

A Seat of Power: The Windsor Chair

Safe As American Apple Pie: Pie Safes

Cool Collectibles: The Ice Box

Tea Times and Chocolate Times

Getting Grounded: The Coffee Grinder

Drinking It In and Washing It Down

Eating Up History: Table Topics

Chapter 15: Parlor Pieces: Living Room Antiques

Putting Art on Your Floor: The Decorative Oriental Rug

Sitting Suite and Pretty: Sofas, Chairs, and Parlor Sets

Chair and Chair Alike: Living Room Chairs

On the Table

Getting the Little Picture: Miniatures

Chapter 16: Welcome to My Boudoir: Bed and Bath Antiques

To Sleep, Perchance in an Antique Bed

Hoping for Chests of Drawers

Coming out of the Closet: Armoires

A Look into Antique Mirrors

Bathroom Baubles

Chapter 17: Antiques from the East: Orientalia

Someday Your Prints Will Come: The Art of the Japanese Woodblock

Jade: A Hard Rock That’s Really Cool

Tusk Tusk, Collecting Ivory

Uncloistering Cloisonné

That’s Imari!

Help You Need Somebody: Studying Satsuma

All in the Famille Rose

A Moveable Feast from the East: Chinese Furniture

Chapter 18: Antiques by the Yard: Outdoor Items

Digging Up Garden Antiques: Where to Find Them

Irons in the Garden: The Cast of Thousands

All Wired Up

Carved or Cast Stone

Finding Your Marbles and Winning with Bronze

Salvaging Antiques by the Yard: Fun Ways to Display Antiques

Part V : The Care, Feeding, and Deleting of Antiques

Chapter 19: Scratches, Spills, and Restoration Thrills

The Material World

Weatherproofing Your Antiques

Dusting Your Antiques

Getting a Handle on Antiques

Spills and Chills

Storing History

The Conservator: An Antique Hot-Line

Chapter 20: Getting Your Antiques Appraised

When You Need an Appraiser

We Have Come to Appraise the Appraiser

The Appraisal Process

Chapter 21: Selling Your Antiques

Twenty Questions: What Do You Have?

The Price is ???

Where Can You Sell It?

Part VI : The Part of Tens

Chapter 22: Ten Great Periodicals

Antique Trader

Maine Antique Digest

Antiques and The Arts Weekly

Antique and Collectors Reproduction News

Warman’s Today’s Collector

Antique Showcase

Antiques and Collecting

Antique Week

New York-Pennsylvania Collector

The Magazine ANTIQUES

Chapter 23: Ten Essential Price Guides for Antiques

Schroeder’s Antiques Price Guide

Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price List

Antique Trader’s Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide

Warman’s Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide

Miller’s International Antiques Price Guide

Lyle Official Antique Review

Specialized Price Guides

Introduction

T his book gives you a new way to look at your everyday world. Suddenly you see not just an old chair, but a piece of living history and extraordinary craftsmanship. Collecting antiques introduces you to interesting people. Plus you learn fascinating things, such as the inside story on Mary Gregory and why Chinese chairs are comparatively tall. Each antique has a story to tell, and part of the fun of collecting is gathering those stories.

For the new collector, this book introduces you to the different categories of antiques. But we’re not going to just show you the antiques without telling you the best places and ways to get them. We give you the inside story on antique shops, shows, flea markets, and auctions so that you not only know what you’re buying, you know more savvy ways to buy it.

For the more experienced collector, this book presents a chance to broaden your knowledge base. We consulted with specialists across the country, searching out the facts and the stories and the tips to make you an even wiser collector.