tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192390922011-04-21T11:31:55.196-07:00Antiques and their history and the collector´s professiona lot of shoutnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19239092.post-1132749853244301802005-11-23T04:42:00.000-08:002005-11-23T04:45:25.603-08:00The presence of these old relics of bygone days, reminders of the intimate<br />home life of our fore-fathers "antiques", creates for most of us a sort<br />of atmosphere that can be more easily recognized than described. It is<br />easier for us to picture the pouring of candles into their molds than<br />the gathering of the minute-men at Concord. The crackling of the<br />back-log on the old fire-dogs is clearer in our ears than the ringing<br />words of Samuel Adams. And to associate, day by day, with the household<br />belongings of a past generation is a heart-warming and a<br />heart-softening thing. Their influence is subtle, but it makes for joy<br />and a chastened pride. It is good for us to set up our tabernacle among<br />them.<br><a href="http://antique-dealer.blogspot.com/">another antiques blog</a><br>It is difficult to give any general advice about<br />collecting, it is so largely a matter of taste. If you really mean to<br />become a collector, and not merely a possessor, it is wisest to choose<br />a somewhat limited field. To collect everything antique means to<br />ac-quire a hodge-podge, unless you mean to stock a town museum. Also it<br />is discouraging. The more you get the more you find there is to be<br />gotten, and the farther you seem to be from a constantly receding goal.<br />Decide what interests you most, and then tackle a subdivision of it. If<br />it is old china, try specializing on something like <a href="http://www.mokkas.de/onlineshop/">antique jewelry</a><br />or maybe books, antique furniture etc. or con-fine yourself to old<br />mirrors or old clocks. In this way you may in time be able to assemble<br />a collection that will really be worth while as a collection, in which<br />completeness and continuity are always desiderata.<br><br>Take old furniture, for example. I suppose if I were a collector, with this as my great hobby, I might say that <a href="http://www.mokkas.de/antike_grafiken/"><br>Antiques</a><br />existed for their own sake, to be treasured and admired. But I do not<br />believe that. I believe that antique furniture can be made to serve a<br />distinct purpose in the modern home, particularly the spacious country<br />home. Let it be strong, useful, and beautiful, as much of it certainly<br />is. No other sort of furniture can be more. But the antique means<br />something. It interests and it charms.<br><br><br>Add little by little,<br />and in each piece acquired there will be a twofold value in association<br />as the years go by. I fancy that the very lack of unlimited means will<br />make the selection more careful and the possession more keenly<br />appreciated.<br><br>Make your <a href="http://www.mokkas.de/onlineshop/advanced_search.php">antique furniture</a><br /><br />a means, not an end. There is a charm and beauty in it, when it is<br />chosen with good taste and good judgment, which the devotee can never<br />adequately express, nor the Philistine ever understand. It is desirable<br />only when it is real, when it is beautiful, when it is good for<br />something, when it means something. In short, when it is good, it is<br />very, very good, and when it is bad, it is horrid.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19239092-113274985324430180?l=antiques-history.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a lot of shoutnoreply@blogger.com