Comments on: Converts to the clan of collectors! http://writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/ Helping You Find Right Antiques Mon, 07 May 2012 23:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Christopher Proudlove http://writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Christopher Proudlove Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:46 +0000 http://www.writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/#comment-200 Bliss Thank you so much for your kind remarks. I'll be sure to add a link to your website and please be sure to come back often. Regards Chris Bliss
Thank you so much for your kind remarks. I’ll be sure to add a link to your website and please be sure to come back often.
Regards
Chris

]]> By: Bliss http://writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Bliss Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:22:06 +0000 http://www.writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/#comment-199 Hello, Chris - After a full morning digging through websites that had no info and lots to sell, it was refreshing to come across your blog. I'm really looking forward to reading your writeups and learning more about antiques. I was editor and publisher of an antique monthly for 11 years and what I enjoyed most was the research, writing, interviews and photography. Now I have a blog on my website, where I essentially get to do the same thing again. We also publish a free annual map guide to antique stores and shows in the western states and upload the entire 200 page edition on the website. I've already placed a link to your blog on mine, and hope you'll consider doing the same. Look for me at http://www.cochrans.com Thanks Bliss Cochran Hello, Chris – After a full morning digging through websites that had no info and lots to sell, it was refreshing to come across your blog. I’m really looking forward to reading your writeups and learning more about antiques. I was editor and publisher of an antique monthly for 11 years and what I enjoyed most was the research, writing, interviews and photography. Now I have a blog on my website, where I essentially get to do the same thing again.

We also publish a free annual map guide to antique stores and shows in the western states and upload the entire 200 page edition on the website.

I’ve already placed a link to your blog on mine, and hope you’ll consider doing the same. Look for me at http://www.cochrans.com
Thanks
Bliss Cochran

]]> By: Jon Hatfield http://writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Jon Hatfield Wed, 21 May 2008 22:33:37 +0000 http://www.writeantiques.com/converts-to-the-clan-of-collectors/#comment-187 Hi Chris. Ran across your site in a Google search of Obpacher Brothers related to search about the unknown German art publisher (speculative Obpacher) behind the U.S. Winsch postcards and unidentified UK children artists featured in that postcard group (speculatively Harriett M. Bennett & Helena Maguire, one each more or less confirmed attribution--Lizzie Mack/Lawson another possibility). What an feast of info you have provided! This piece about an unknown Victorian animal fantasy artist is altogether a delight. I had thought the German artists (like A. Thiele) were the animal fantasy artists of choice--kind of blocked Wain, George Thompson, & Beatrix Potter out of my mind...but clearly the UK Victorians were first and best, though I treasure my German artist pieces, especially a c. 1910 International Art Publishing Co. postcard set by an unknown German artist featuring chickens & rabbits in circus scenes--not quite the character portraits of your fantastic artistor the social commentary of Wain, but delightful animal fantasy in a favorite Victorian category. Except for later children books of a different style & intent (take that back, modeled on Beatrix Potter), strictly U.S. animal fantasy work is few and far between until Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck &, my wife reminds me, her treasured contemporary Cherished Teddies--three c. 1907 bear sets would be the main early entries in a catalog, featured as both postcard & books. There is an exceptionally endearing 1886 Prange cat fantasy Christmas card perhaps by an American artist. (I want this piece to be by Frances Brundage, but that's wishful thinking.) So many unknown Victorians of unexpected and eccentric genius--and one more now rescued for appreciation--thanks to you and the new world space of the internet. Hi Chris. Ran across your site in a Google search of Obpacher Brothers related to search about the unknown German art publisher (speculative Obpacher) behind the U.S. Winsch postcards and unidentified UK children artists featured in that postcard group (speculatively Harriett M. Bennett & Helena Maguire, one each more or less confirmed attribution–Lizzie Mack/Lawson another possibility).

What an feast of info you have provided! This piece about an unknown Victorian animal fantasy artist is altogether a delight. I had thought the German artists (like A. Thiele) were the animal fantasy artists of choice–kind of blocked Wain, George Thompson, & Beatrix Potter out of my mind…but clearly the UK Victorians were first and best, though I treasure my German artist pieces, especially a c. 1910 International Art Publishing Co. postcard set by an unknown German artist featuring chickens & rabbits in circus scenes–not quite the character portraits of your fantastic artistor the social commentary of Wain, but delightful animal fantasy in a favorite Victorian category.

Except for later children books of a different style & intent (take that back, modeled on Beatrix Potter), strictly U.S. animal fantasy work is few and far between until Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck &, my wife reminds me, her treasured contemporary Cherished Teddies–three c. 1907 bear sets would be the main early entries in a catalog, featured as both postcard & books. There is an exceptionally endearing 1886 Prange cat fantasy Christmas card perhaps by an American artist. (I want this piece to be by Frances Brundage, but that’s wishful thinking.) So many unknown Victorians of unexpected and eccentric genius–and one more now rescued for appreciation–thanks to you and the new world space of the internet.

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