World War II Poster Art Presented by DanField Antiques at L.E. Shore Library During the month of February, a time capsule of life in Britain during World War II will be featured at Shore Library in the gallery. Through the war years this large collection of poster art was neatly folded and stored...
Author: Dan Field
Spy Prints from Vanity Fair Including Sporting Figures and Royalty
In addition to our WWII posters, and our fine collection of restaurant and travel menus, we now add a very large collection of Vanity Fair Spy prints from 1888 to 1994. Among these lithographs are some of the biggest names in politics, sporting life and society of the day. There is a Rudyard Kipling, a...
Some Good Reasons for Buying Antiques
Your Own World of Interiors A couple of years ago, my landlord for my shop in Clarksburg, suggested that I might want to look at a magazine known as World of Interiors. I did, and was hooked immediately on the style and content of this glossy inspirational periodical. I strongly recommend it now myself. You...
Jacques and Hay Furniture
My pet project within antique collecting is researching, discovering, and generally talking incessantly about pieces of furniture made by the Toronto firm of John Jacques and Robert Hay. My wife thought she married a world class dancer but in fact she married a furniture nerd. Some times for a laugh she will ask me when...