Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-07 | Page 8 | Interest in Antiques Booms

INTEREST IN ANTIQUES BOOMS L 0 t k 4 4 1 i f 4 S 'S t Mrs W. W Walter Walfer lter Ehrich believes choice m modern d dern ern pieces especially specially silver crystal ceramics will h have vc enduring value She sets a t table ble her here e with fine old pewter and fine modern crystal The runners of linen and nd taffeta crosswise on the table are a new table tabla style note They're at it again the agaIn the collectors of old china old glass old furniture furni furni- ture who because of finances for fora a brief space abandoned their fe feverish feverish Ic- Ic scouring of ot the country's attics In the hope of finding hidden treasure Its It's a very good sign of the times too oo this rebirth of interest in antiques an- an antiques antiques an an- says Mrs Walter Valter I. I L. L Ehrich Enrich one of the most distinguished of American professional i collectors Mrs Ehrichs Ehrich's specialty is English antiques and she is also interested il in n modern china silver sliver and glass I It t that hat at some day will become museum pieces i Mrs Mr Ehrich who began to collect col- col I col-I leet lect almost accidentally when she was was left with some thin things s on her herlands I hands lands that she had bought for lor a friend warns the amateur who starts gathering antiques that there arc are many pitfalls I 1 never buy anything if iC I am in inthe inthe inthe the least doubtful of its she explains That is an especially good rule for lor the beginner begin begin- ner to follow Yet I made many mistakes when I started So does everybody and and learns important lessons from them too For some time Americans have been collecting the tho oftentimes crude maple and pine furniture of ot the thc nations nation's earlier days Even saddlers saddlers' and shoemakers shoemakers' benches came to have a certain v value luo during the frenzy But more recently the vogue has been for furniture of the Victorian period relegated to the garret a generation ago and ana now retrieved and taking on new value A good deal of ot the Victorian as most collectors will admit was pretty bad but the nicely curved rosewood chairs and sofas and the topped marble-topped tables of a certain time mal make e what the Ute decorators call caU amusing amusin notes in modern houses A collector o of this type of Victorian Victorian Vic Vie torian furniture suggests that such pieces be placed against plain walls or if the flowered vered papers of ot Victorian Victorian Vic Vie torian times be used that there be beno beno beno no patterns In curtains or A good plan to too Is to avoid aroId using the Brussels rugs of or grandmothers grandmother's grandmothers grandmother's grandmothers grandmother's grand grand- mothers mother's time tim as as' as asa a little too con con- fusing Oriental or plain modern rugs turn out better The Victorian rosewoods are upholstered upholstered up up- holstered in the fine damasks damasks' ol of other days but the walnuts may be beI redone in m white horsehair or maybe I white leather The armchair which was meant for the father of the family was the most comfortable furniture In the V Victorian home Mothers Mother's chair without arms in order to allow free play for her hoopskirt is best used for fer ornament nt only Victorian vases i imay may be converted into lamps but the fringes and tassels of the era together with much of the excess brac a Is wisely omitted in the modern Victorian room roam n