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Monday, June 22, 2015
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Learn about your antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway Archer City but Denton can claim him too since he graduated from UNT. He wrote Cadillac Jack in the early 1980s about a scout (picker) of salable antiques, collectibles, and curiosities of all kinds. Of course there is a deeper meaning to McMurtry’s book than the antiquing theme, but Jack’s occupation qualifies it for this collecting genre.
is inherited by an architect who wants to tear it down to build a new architectural firm on the site. There is enough romance, conflict, and antiques lore to qualify this one for the collection.
Tamar Myers has written some books that are pretty lightweight in their content, but the titles have great appeal to me; in fact, I had given You may not be familiar with some of the other some thought to writing some fiction with Several years ago when I started my collection authors who have used the antique-theme as antique-related titles that were puns until I of books by Texas authors, I never thought the basis for their stories, so I am going to take discovered that Ms. Myers had already done about collecting books that were written with the liberty to list a few of them and leave the that. Who could resist books titled, So Faux, antiques, antique shops, antiquarian bookstores hunting for others to you. So Good; Larceny and Old Lace; Gilt by or antique collectors/dealers as their theme. Association; Baroque and Desperate; The Ming That was until I read an article in an antique Barbara Michaels has written at least three and I; and Estate of Mind? collecting magazine about that topic and mysteries with antiques as a basis: Into the Eureka! a new collection was born. Darkness (jewelry), Stitches in Time (antique And my favorite, is John Dunning, a fulltime (Remember it doesn’t take much prodding for bridal quilt), and Shattered Silk (textiles). writer and bookstore owner (Old Algonquin true antiqu-aholics to start a new collection.) Bookshop in Denver, CO) who writes about British author Mollie Hardwick, better known Cliff Janaway, a cop and book collector. The tried and true books like Jonathan Gash’s for her two famous books, Duchess of Duke Dunning writes as an insider to the “wonderful, Lovejoy series were easy to find at my favorite Street and the Upstairs, Downstairs series, has unpredictable world of old and not-so-old rare antiquarian bookstore, Recycled Books written a series featuring antique shop owner, books.” These books opened my eyes to the Records CDs on Denton’s Square. You may Doran Fairweather. I know of 7 books in this value of books of fiction and made my forays recall the Lovejoy books or the Lovejoy series series. through the bookshelves of junk shops, old that ran on PBS several years back. Lovejoy is bookstores, and thrifts take on new meaning. a roguishly attractive Brit who buys and sells Robert Westfall, an antiques dealer, has written antiques, always with some murderous mystery a book of ghost stories called Antique Dust. It isn’t easy to find fiction books with antique attached, and is romantically linked to one or And two lawyers from Indiana, Joe Hensley collecting as a theme because a list of them more “birds.” Gash has written at least 24 and Guy Townsend, collaborated on a book hasn’t been completely created. But that makes Lovejoy books which are full of antique lore. called Loose Coins, about coin collecting. The them that much more fun to seek out. This protagonist in the series by Nicholas Kilmer, collection satisfies three of my “needful And many of you will be familiar with Stephen Fred Taylo,r is a non-collector who buys things”: foraging, reading, and acquiring. King’s Needful Things, published in 1991, artworks for rich clients. We foray into the about an antique shop by the same name world of art dealers, collectors and museum Dr. Georgia Caraway, former director of the operated by the creepy Leland Gaunt where curators through these well-crafted mystery Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her there is “something for everyone.” At Needful books, called by the odd names, Man with a friends opened the Howe Mercantile on April Things the prices are high and Gaunt’s Squirrel and Harmony in Flesh and Black. 25. Store hours are Thursday through Saturday pleasure is to see how much people will pay noon until 8 p.m. In addition to Tips, Tools, & for their most secret dreams and desires. This Even romance novelists have gotten into the Techniques: Caring for Your Antiques and one almost made me want to stop acquiring act. Catherine Palmer has written Finders Collectibles, she has written four Denton things—well, almost, but not quite. Keepers, a romantic fiction with a biblical history books and is working on a 5th history foundation about a woman who wants to open about the North Texas State Fair and Rodeo. And our own Larry McMurtry. Yes, he is from her antiques shop in a Victorian mansion that www.securestreamllc.com www.acequalityfencing.com