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Village Vibe Edward “Ed” Carty
from Reports of Montecito Being Exclusive to the Newly Wed and Nearly Dead Turn Out to Have Been Greatly
Ed and his twin sister, Anne Carty, co-own and manage Carty & Carty Antiques in Montecito’s Upper Village, where their business serves as a resource for historical expertise. With the help of their mother’s early savviness, their establishment has become a hub of knowledge within the community.
“We’ve been in Santa Barbara since 1865, came here from Burlington, Vermont, and then my grandparents came to Montecito and lived here. This was a storage unit for my mother who did antique appraisals, so she was like, the go-to person for appraisals. It’s mostly a service more than anything else. People come to us, invite us over to see what they have and if there’s anything. Like we went to an estate where there was a big punch bowl and the lady was going to sell it for $150, and I said, ‘Well, but this is better than $150. It’s Sterling; it’s by Clarence Rydell; it’s early for a California silversmith,’ and so we ended up taking it to sell for her and today it’s at the Boston Museum of Art in their American Wing and they paid $50,000 for it.”
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