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chasenantiques.com Philip Chasen Antiques The blog for chasenantiques.com SearchHome About Post navigation ← Older posts After a 90° pivot, I’m pivoting another 270°, right back to where I started. So here are some of my latest purchases. Posted on February 13, 2024 by Philip Chasen Reply I will be writing blogs again, but on a very occasional basis, when the mood strikes me. I thought that a number of estates were coming my way but they didn’t materialize. At the same time, I was doing a significant amount of business from my website. So I decided to do a full 360°. I’m back to my regular business. I never retired, as some people suggested, but I directed my attention to estates. I’m still interested, if and when they come my way. So here’s a few nice items I purchased recently. Very fine Tiffany Studios 16″ Black-Eyed Susan table lamp Tiffany Favrile Calyx flowerform vase Highly detailed Daum Nancy sailboat vase Click Philip Chasen Antiques to take a look. I will make every effort to actively list new items as often as time permits. There are many items for sale, sold items with prices and free lessons about glass and lamps. Don’t forget, I’m still buying, so let me know what you have to sell. Posted in Auctions | Leave a reply I’m pivoting my business to selling estates, so read on please… Posted on August 25, 2023 by Philip Chasen 1 (UPDATE) It’s mid-January, 2024, and I’m having second thoughts about what I’ll be doing going forward. I’ve been doing really good business from my website and in no particular hurry to sell my inventory. I’ve been buying a few things here and there, which I’ve been listing on my website. So for the time being, I’m going with the flow. If estates come my way, I’ll work with those. But if few or none are coming my way, I’ll continue to buy and sell from my website. ————————————————————————————————————————– For about 50 years I bought and sold American and French Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass and lamps. The point has come where I won’t be doing that much longer. I will be selling off my remaining inventory at great discounts to get down to zero. It’s not that I don’t want to keep doing the same thing, but it’s gotten so much more difficult. Most antique shows have failed or have been severely cut back. And unfortunately my best clients have died within the last year. I was all set to exhibit at my last show ever, in Miami, this January, 2024, but you know the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. I took a bad fall and broke a couple of vertebrae. So it looks like my last show in Winnetka in November, 2023 was indeed my last show. Too bad. I was looking forward to the Miami Show. I have some really nice items that I wanted to sell at the show. So I ask that you check out what I have left to sell. It’s several hundred items, of the best quality, all hand-chosen my me. Some are listed on my website but many are not, as I don’t have the time to photograph and list them all. So please ask and I’ll send photos. What I have pivoted to is selling other people’s items, mostly estates. I’m in the process of selling the contents of a 20,000 sq. ft. home in upstate New York, as well as the Jamaica Estates estate of a deceased friend of mine. I’m also working on selling the artwork from the estate of a famous artist. If you are a relative, a friend, or an attorney, and you have one item, or several items, or the estate of a living or deceased friend or relative to sell, please let me know. My fee will be 5% – 15%, depending on the number, value and quality of the items. I’ll take care of everything, so all you have to do is watch, wait for the items to be sold and receive a check. I personally know most of the auctioneers in the United States. I know who’s honest and who isn’t. I know all the ins and outs of the auction business, so I can negotiate the best deal for you. You can try to do it yourself, but you’ll end up with the best result if you trust it to the expert. You’ll get the most money with the least hassle. It doesn’t matter where you live. If the value is sufficient, I’ll fly out to do business with you in person. Posted in Auctions | 1 Reply I will be writing very few blogs from now on Posted on May 9, 2022 by Philip Chasen 16 I will publish a new blog once in a blue moon, which as you know is not very often. What was my motivation for writing a blog? Well, what is anyone’s motivation? It’s got to be self-serving. I wanted people to know that I was very active in the antiques business and that I was an expert in my field. I wrote about new items for sale, items I’d sold, antiques news, lessons, etc. And it worked. I remember an incident at an antique show many years ago. I told a client that a lamp I was selling was authentic. So I referred her to another dealer on the floor of the show to verify what I was saying. In fact, he wasn’t knowledgeable enough to verify what I had said. So the client returned to my booth and asked me How do I know what you’re telling me is correct?” I was put in the position of having to defend my knowledge. There was no good answer. I didn’t have a degree in lamps or art history or anything of the sort. No gray hair at the time. I was right, but I couldn’t prove it. Fast forward to today. That rarely ever happens anymore. People know that I’m the expert and don’t question my credentials (which I earned from the school of hard knocks and experience). Many auction houses use my services to authenticate and evaluate consignments of glass and lamps. Part of the credit goes to my blog, which people have been reading for the last 12 years. So why would I stop now (or slow down tremendously)? 1. It takes a lot of time and effort to write. 2. Readership is down considerably to about 1/3 of what it was at the peak. (If readership were stable or going up, I would continue to write.) 3. I don’t get much feedback from my blog. 4. I shot myself in the foot more than once. Let me explain. I write honestly and sometimes too bluntly. I’ve heard from many readers that that’s one of the reasons they like to read my blog. Some of the blogs I’ve written have been critical of auction houses or dealers. I wrote the blogs from my point of view and didn’t realize in some cases that I was offending or demeaning the subjects of the blog. Some of the subjects of my blogs took great offense, when none was intended. So at this point in my career, my blog is causing me more harm than good. So I may write a blog from time to time, but for the most part, my blog is finished. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it and maybe learned a thing or two, but for now it’s adios. No shows until October 20, 2022, when we’ll exhibit at the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show . Two weeks later we’ll exhibit at the Antiques + Modernism Show in Winnetka, IL, starting on November 4, 2022. Let me know what interests you, even if you don’t see it on my website. I’ve got lots of items that I haven’t listed yet and I know how to locate what you desire. I listed some of the new items on my website and will list more every week. Click Philip Chasen Antiques to take a look. I will make every effort to actively list new items as often as time permits. I always strive to offer the finest objects for sale on my website and at every show. There are many items for sale, sold items with prices and free lessons about glass and lamps. And remember to keep reading my blog. Posted in Auctions | 16 Replies Prices were on fire at Toomey & Co.’s sale of The Ira Simon Collection , April 27, 2022 Posted on May 2, 2022 by Philip Chasen 2 I will do my best to publish a new post every Monday. Toomey & Co., Oak Park, IL, held a sale of The Ira Simon Collection on April 27, 2022, with outstanding results. Included in the sale were some very fine examples of Tiffany lamps, and a multitude of unique Art Nouveau and Art Deco items. Following is a review of a few interesting lots by Tiffany Studios. There were other categories and makers that also...