Brunk auctions in asheville nc is a house thats local to me so i follow their sales regularly. I was aware of this pipe box but not how it was acquired, GEE WIZ, i just love stories like this.
http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=694
Antiques Mall Find at $154 Sells for $34,500
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Auction and Show Watch thread on victorianforum.com · started June 15, 2008 by jacon4 · 3 posts · discussion in 2008.
Brunk auctions in asheville nc is a house thats local to me so i follow their sales regularly. I was aware of this pipe box but not how it was acquired, GEE WIZ, i just love stories like this. http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=694
Thanks for sharing this great story ---I have been in those shops in Bell Buckle, Tenn. within the last year and may have just walked right on by that box......Charles.
Charles, yup, ditto here, i would be just as likely to walk right on by that pipe box. John T Kirk has a recent book out (2000), "American Furniture" where there is a chapter titled "The Value of a Trained Eye" where he gives several examples of people who should know, walk right on by. For those unfamilar with Mr. Kirk, he is a retired professor of art history at Boston Univ who inadvertently became the founding father of the original finish fetish in america when he published a book in the '70s with a chapter titled " Buy It Ratty and Leave It Alone".