With public school systems and teachers and parents continuing to wonder about what will happen if and when the school year begins, we suppose it seems a little shallow to think about the business of antiques. Yet the “antiques trade” generates in the billions of...

A little context for historians or others who may come across this column a century from now. We're in the midst of a pandemic and that has altered much of daily life, including shutting down businesses and restricting travel. We've regularly looked back to 1917-1918...

Granddaughter Sarah knows my weakness for the various styles of Windsor chairs and she knows that I really don't need another. So when I talk with her after an auction, she kids me with “Did you buy any Windsors?” Well, I suppose I'll have to confess that “Hitchcock”...