Weekly Antiques Auction News Chinese , Japanese Art and American Furniture.m

Hello again, it is Friday, November 6th, 2026, and this is the weekly video. We're going to take a look at a bunch of things today, auctions that took place already, one over in the UK at Chiswick's, or Chiswick's, I've been corrected so many times, I always say Chiswick, and I noticed a bunch of you in the comments when I've said it in the past that we pronounce it Chiswick, which is fair enough, because here in Massachusetts, the town I live in is Gloucester, and when people from out of town pronounce it, they say Gloucester. It's just variations of pronunciation, my apologies. But anyway, we're going to take a look at some results from over there, some results from here, some interesting things that I came across during the week, an upcoming sale in New Hampshire and David Moisons. It's got some very nice American furniture in it and a few pieces of Chinese art and so forth. So that's going to be it. All right, so let's take a look. Let's see, what's the first thing on the list here? Here is this. This is a plate that's coming up. This is to remind you about the Revere Auction. Revere Auctions is selling the Hydroph collection. And on the 11th and 12th of this month, we did a preview video on it. This is just a reminder not to forget. And there's some lovely pieces in there. And if you're building a collection, it's a chance to get something from a very prominent collector, one of the most prominent in the United States. And, uh... The power of provenance, as they say, is very important. And be sure to hang on to your receipts after you're done buying something. All right. And there's that. And then there's this, of course, the order of Cincinnati plate, the Washington plate is coming up. It's got a repair to it. Apparently, it was broken in half. But the estimate is reflective of that at $40,000 to $50,000. thousand And we'll see how that goes. But anyway, it's going to be an exciting auction. I'm very interested to see how it does. All right. Now, moving on. This. This is coming up at Toomey and Company in Chicago. dollars They've got a sale coming on the 12th of this month, about six days from now. next I guess it's next Thursday or Friday. And they've got three Rockefeller pattern China trade plates in it, which is really something. And they're all different scenes, which is very, very nice. And they look to be in very good condition overall. Here's the back. They didn't show a detail of the plate, though, but they enlarge well enough that you can see what they look like. And these look like nice ones. The gilding is all intact. As you know, we've covered many of these Rockefeller pattern plates when they've come up, and often the gilding is worn away to pieces much of the time. All three of these are in good condition. The plates measure, what are they, about nine inches? Just, uh... Nine and three-quarter inches in diameter, basically. One of them is 10 inches, so there's a slight difference in size, apparently. The estimate is $3,000 to $6,000, which is not unreasonable. In the past, we've seen singles, individual plates of these sell for $1,800 to $2,500. So they've got the estimate about right. It's a rare set. It's a rare pattern. If you're into it, go after it. All right. Now, over to this. This is some of the stuff coming up in Portsmouth, I mean, in New Hampshire on the 21st of November. This is sort of an early warning on this one. This is the Devon Moison sale. He's got a couple of days of auctions going, the 20th and the 21st, I think, or the 20th. Let me check that. I'm going to get the dates right here. The, let's see, the 21st and the 22nd, there it is, two-day sale, Americana. He gets a lot of good things out of New England houses, as you know. In the past, we've covered him. He had that very good China trade sale a few, what is it, just about a year ago, I guess, a little less than a year ago. And he's got this. This is some very good American furniture. We're going to start covering more and more American furniture because I think it's grossly overlooked. It's beautiful stuff. And this is a Portsmouth table, a dressing table with a step top on it, very desirable type, made of mahogany. And the style is very typical of the Portsmouth furniture market back in the early 1800s, what they were producing. They had spectacular cabinet makers working in that area. One of the most famous, of course, was the Dunlap family. But there were others as well. And this is a very, very fine table. And I think the estimate's extremely reasonable, $1,500 to $2,500. $1,500. It's got 22 people watching it already. This is a rare piece of furniture. Don't be surprised if it brings, you know, $6,000 to $8,000. But it's a beautiful piece of furniture, highly desirable and very elegant. You know, wouldn't you like that in your house as a hallway table or in a bedroom or something? It's a beautiful piece of woodwork, all, of course, handmade, great wood selection. Very nice mahogany on here. That's that very beautiful wood color you're seeing in mahogany legs. The whole piece is mahogany, except for some of the secondary woods, which are used to hold it together, which are very likely made of pine or maybe bits of maple or something. But anyway, it's a very good piece of furniture. And also there's this in the sale. Very nice Chippendale slant-legged desk made of cherry. Very, very beautifully done. We'll And this is, they believe, Samuel Dunlap. I had mentioned the Dunlaps a minute ago from Bedford, New Hampshire, circa 1790. be seventeen ninety and Very nice proportions, beautiful wood selection, nicely carved base. right The Dunlap stuff is very desirable in the collector market. And slant leg desks are great because you can open them up, back. you can put a laptop on them, so you can use them. And there's the interior with those beautiful shell carved drawers with a slightly alternating pattern in the shells up here at the top, as you'll see. Very typical of Dunlap work. And four nice graduated drawers. It looks to be in very good shape. You can call and get more information on it. The estimate is $20,000 to $40,000 with a $10,000 opening bid, which is not unreasonable. Also in the sale is this. Now, this is a very nice Kangxi period lamp with the, There he is, with the Fu lion on it. Nice Wucai enamels and so forth. And this particular lamp was on the bottom. A label from, there it is, Moog, down in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the best Chinese dealers in the country for many, many years. And the old price tag is still on it, $3,200 back in the day. And this was probably bought back in the 80s or the 90s. It's a fairly old tag. So this is when they were charging that kind of money for these things. The estimate on this time around is $600 to $900. I suspect it'll go beyond that. It is a nice Kangxi example. It's a beautiful table lamp. If you're looking for a great table lamp, this is it. The base itself measures just a little over a foot in height, and the lamp height overall is about 16 inches. So it's an ideal size. All you've got to get is a shade for it, and you're in business. And then this is also in the sale. There's a very, very nice Chinese school of a courtyard and sort of a little complex of some kind in the mountains of China. Very nice detail, beautifully done. Watercolor, of course, gouache on paper, very beautifully framed. It's a nice thing. It's a great looking thing. And it's fairly good size. The frame size overall is 18 by 18 inches. So it's a nice wall painting. Thank What do they have? No, there's nothing else written about it as far as condition goes. Possibly a view of one of the summer palaces. you That's possible. That's possible. And it could have also been the home of a wealthy farmer for or a wealthy merchant. And outside of a major city, they did have summer houses back then. joining. You know, very famously, the wealthy Chinese folks would have houses in the countryside. The emperor, of course, had many. And then there's this Chinese export plate. Now, this is not in that sale. This is in Litchfield Auctions has a sale coming up. And they have this very nice early, well, beginning of the Qianlong period, We had Grisaille decorated Chinese export dish. of some sort of mythological scene on here. I'm not sure what that is. I've seen this pattern before. It's a winged gentleman holding out a spear. Peter, it's... I'm sure it comes from Greek mythology or something. You'd have to go look it up. But it's a nice-looking plate. It's a well-known type, by the way, with these gilded sort of wreaths going around the exterior. Thank And they typically sell, just to let you know, in auctions in the past, they've sold for between Oh, on the low end, around $650, $700, you and on the high end, around $1,100. for It's a well-known pattern. Many of you have seen it before. This one looks like it's also in very good shape, having so that should help the price of it. And it measures 8 3⁄4 inches diameter. And then over to this, me. this is coming up at Treadwells in Franklin, New York on the 14th of November next week, is this very nice, appears to be certainly a Kangxi example and mille-fleurs on a raised plinth. You need to examine it. But it looks to be Kangxi work, the way the details are done, the translucency of the aubergine, the tone of the yellow and so forth, of this mythical god. And he's got a dragon coming up, or he's carrying a dragon around his belt, I guess, in this, like a bucket. Very interesting. It's a very interesting demon. There it is. Nice quality. Beautiful work. I'll leave a picture of the bottom. Should be flat and unglazed. There it is. Yep. Yep, looks like a Kangxi pot to me. Uh, and. And it measures, it came out of a collection in New York, and it measures 15 inches in height. So this is a pretty big one. That's a pretty big statue. The estimate is 4,000 to 6,000, which I think is right in line. All right. It's already got a bid at 1,500. There are 33 people watching this. It's a very unusual one. It's a very unusual demon. I don't want to depict it too often in biscuitware like this. And I think there's another one in this sale, too. So go check it out. Okay, this is Treadwell Auctions, Franklin, New York, on November 14th. It's on Live Auctioneers. And, of course, you could probably go to their website for it. And then over to this. Now, this is coming up at Smith's, right, up at William Smith Auctions up in Plainfield, New Hampshire. This is a very, very nice North Shore or possibly Southern New Hampshire desk with the chest with these oval inlaid veneers on a mahogany. It looks to be a mahogany case. Or maybe it's a maple case. Let's see if they say what the case is, because I don't see a lot of figuring in the wood, so it's making me wonder. Okay, no, it's mahogany. Okay, there it is. It just doesn't have a lot of figuring showing through the finish. Beautifully done. 38 inches wide, too. It's a very desirable size. Once you get into American case furniture under 40 inches, it becomes much more in demand because it's rarer. Most of the pieces were a bit larger, 42 to 44 inches. And this one is only estimated at $4,000 to $6,000. $2,000 opening bid. It's a beautiful piece of furniture. Really, really lovely. It's probably, you know, It's a better thing to put your clothes in than probably what many people use. This is a nice, usable bureau. And the knobs are replaced. Looks like, are they white ivory? Are they ivory knobs? Sometimes they used ivory knobs on these. You want to find out. Those might be ivory. And they're not a problem with them being ivory because it falls under the de minimis amount rule, Meaning that if the ivory content... Yeah, they look like ivory knobs. That's very nice. That's very unusual. They did use ivory knobs on very fancy pieces of furniture at times. There was a famous sewing table that had belonged to Martha Washington that we actually handled at one point when we were doing auctions. It had been illustrated in Wallace Nutting's book. And we searched it out and found out who the current owner was and told them it was probably a pretty good time to sell it. But it was what they called a Martha Washington table. This one actually came from Mount Vernon, and it had ivory knobs on the ends. It was very unusual, but it was from roughly the same period. And they used ivory, but back to the de minimis rule. If it's less than 5% of the total content of the piece of furniture, an object, pianos, you know, piano keys are exempt because they're not more than 5% of the total mass. They're perfectly legitimate to sell. Ivory inlays are fine, but the piece can't be, you know, 50% ivory, then it's a problem. So the ivory knobs on this are not a problem for shipping, nothing, they're perfectly fine. This is a very nice piece of furniture with those knobs and this beautiful inlay. Very, very well done. They're just saying North Shore of Massachusetts. They also made somewhat similar chests in southern New Hampshire, but it probably is North Shore. At Salem, they made things like this in the best workshops in Salem. All right, and then that's more of the Hoodruff collection. Just I don't know why that tab was there, but it was. And then we get into some results for the week. um This was the Chiswick sale, you starting this very nice reticulated, underglazed blue teapot, very 18th century, Chinlong period, probably about 1760. Very unusual. They did these, there was also a couple in the sale that were with enamels. much. to Those are more, they're not, none of them are common, but those are a little more common with speak. the enamels. This one was all done in underglazed blue, which is very unusual. And it did pretty well. It did quite well. It ended up going for about US currency, about $3,000 for that. But it was a very, very pretty teapot, beautifully done. Do they give any information on this? Please refer to a pair of similar teapots illustrated by Marchant in a recent acquisitions catalog from 2002. So a similar pair of those went through Marchant about 24 years ago over in London. And that was a nice one. That's a very, very nice pot. I have to say, and then there's this, this is the Three Friends of Winter Bowl, which is identified by the trees on it. So you have the pine tree, the bamboo tree, and there's the prunus blossom, the plum blossom tree, and the bamboo tree. And those are tied to the identities of the three sages, including Confucius. All right, so at any rate, this was a very nice, beautiful bowl, and it did fine. In the end, it ended up going for about $6,500, $7,000 for the bowl. It measured, what is it, about six or seven inches in diameter? 13 centimeters, so about five inches in diameter. Beautiful piece of porcelain. The examples like this did quite well in the sale. The more typical Chinese export stuff and that sort of thing, we're a little bit softer. But remember one thing. There's so much material coming up for sale in the next couple of weeks over in the UK. It's almost unimaginable that the market there is strong enough to absorb all of it at high prices. This is a thing that happens. It happened last year. It's happened in other years. There are so many sales. I heard from somebody over there, and he didn't know which sale to go to. Uh, he, He's hit as many as he can. He's previewed the bottom sale. I think he's going to Drew Weitz and this and that. But he said there are so many sales, you can't hardly keep up. And some of them, it's a little bit of a drive between some of them, a couple of hundred miles or so, 150, 200 miles. So you've got to be selective. But there are... You know, probably a dozen significant auctions taking place all within a period of a couple of days over there between the 8th and 9th through about the 19th. So in about 8 or 10 days, they're going to have a slew of auctions to happen, and we'll cover the results afterwards. But if you're over there, carpet bomb the auctions with bids, even from here. Many of the auction houses, I did a video for the Patreon folks. If you haven't seen it yet, go over and if you're a Patreon subscriber, go and watch it. Talking about a couple of the sales that are Malhams and Doran Reese and so forth. And they've got. They've done a smart thing because they recognize that the market is very competitive these days. They've all put... For the most part, very modest estimates on everything, prices anybody would be happy to pay, and that is because they're trying to get the eyeballs in their direction over their competitors because it's very competitive right now. It's extremely competitive, so keep that in mind. This did fine. It ended up going for about $6,500. $500. And then there was this. Now, this was a piece that was sold in the U.S. last week at Crescent City Auctions. And I couldn't get an answer from them whether or not it had a bottom in it or not. Okay. Oh, they've added this picture. There we go. It didn't. The base is missing out of it. That often happens on these ivory brush pots. The bases are made of a separate piece and fitted in and often they fall out. And I had asked them and they never answered, but somebody added this photograph and it's got some staining. I think that's mostly dirt that'll clean off. But this was a very, very nice piece of carved ivory. It was beautifully decorated. It needs a little TLC. It looks like it's been in the bottom of a drawer for a long time. But the paint decoration on it was excellent. And somebody got it for a bargain. There's the base of it. Yeah, that's where the bottom would have been. See, it's very thin. It's easy to get knocked out. I actually have one of these. It's reticulated with a poem on it that has no bottom in it either. I don't think so either. So it's sort of expected. But anyway, this was estimated 500 to 1,000. And I think because of ivory, people recognized it was ivory. They didn't want to risk buying it. It went for $375 plus premium, which is very reasonable. That was about $475 or something. This is a wonderful pot. Now, I'm assuming they've got some way to sell this legally. I don't know. I can't imagine Crescent City would stick their necks out to sell a piece of ivory. But that was a beautifully decorated piece. I think a lot of this yellowing on here may be nicotine. It may be house dirt. It may be anything. But I think with a little attention, it will clean up very, very nicely. Um And it went for a bargain price, a nice piece of ivory. And then over to this, this is the, what is this for? This is the Chiswick sale, just to go through. you And you can take a look, and you can see in here, I put this up here, very because you can go through it, and you can see this very nice, you know, Kanshi-style dish, vase went for 360. much. The bowls, of course, do well. This one brought 3,400 pounds. The food pot here, I don't know if that's a food pot or an incense burner. It could be either. It's a jar. It's a jar. Beautifully done. And it didn't go for a lot. I don't think that's too much. $2,100 plus about $2,700. Very reasonable. That was a very nice piece. And you can go through the sale. Always go back and go through sales once they're over. I know people that they bid and they don't get something and they get discouraged. It's a great learning tool after the fact. All right. And here are a couple of the, there are those blue, uh, pots again. Um, this one, I think had a repair to it. That's why it went for 750 pounds instead of a higher price, but there's some very good blue and white pieces in here. And I don't think they, they brought the world. I don't think they, they, they went terribly high in general. If you're looking at the prices, $180, passed. When you see passed on something for $300 to $500 that should have sold, you know that the competition is tight out there. They didn't have enough people in the room, perhaps, to carry it all. But at any rate, this is online to carry it, I guess, these days. But you had this very nice Dewab, a Gu form beaker, went for $650. That seems very reasonable. And I Based on the prices we've seen around here lately, think anyway, this very nice Meiping vase, they listed this as 18th century, and it went for, that's they didn't include a picture of the bottom. That's a fatal mistake. really But that looks like an 18th century foot rim. The color is good. I don't know what the problem was. important. That should have brought a lot more money than, even $1,500 was a bargain price. But $1,200 US plus premium, that was a very good buy. That was an excellent buy. And then that candlestick holder that was so wonderful, because a lot of these pieces came from the Santos collection. In the Tibor collection, this is a very rare candlestick holder, extremely rare. And somebody picked it up for about $950, including the buyer's premium. That's a very rare type. It's extremely elaborate. We previewed that a few weeks ago because I thought it was a wonderful piece of porcelain. And then there was this one, of course, the underglazed red and blue Kangxi period inscribed with a cyclical date on it and all that. These documentary pieces tend to do very, very well. And this was at Bonhams. This was a Bonhams sale. The last one was Chiswick's. This is Bonhams. Very desirable. It went for $24,000 plus premium or around $33,000 all said and done. But highly desirable, very collectible, and a very pursued category. Category. And then over to this. This was at Alex Cooper's sale. This is just ending today. I was watching it earlier. There was that very nice antique Serapi rug in the sale. I thought this was visually very, very attractive. It's an old rug. This was a second quarter or third quarter of the 1800s rug. Very nice and very unusual pattern in the middle. Very unusual, nice light blue border and very good size, 8 by 13. This is a big rug. And I think somebody got a nice buy. This is a very good buy. There it is. Had some wear visual on it. Visually, you can see it. But that's normal to a certain degree on these big room-sized rugs. But it had that very, very nice soft pink in it. Very, very nice. I like a very soft coral color. I like that a lot. Here's the back of it. That's what it should look like. The base of the back of the rug is all sort of flattened out from being walked on for 130 or 140 years. All right, and then let's see, what did it go for? $3,700 plus the premium. They'd estimated it $4,000 to $6,000, which I did think was all crazy. And it ended up at about $4,900, $5,000 with the buyer's premium. That's a heck of a nice rug for $5,000. That was a great, that's a very, very pretty rug. You never get tired of that. And then over to this. Now, this was an interesting thing. I got in touch with, this was... Was this Alex Cooper? Yeah, it was Alex Cooper's. Because they had listed these as pith paintings. And I was looking at them pretty carefully. And I thought, boy, they don't look like pith, the paper. Pith, as you know, is a fibrous material that's just sliced out of the core of a tree. And none of it is actually paper. It's a fibrous, more or less a fibrous membrane. And I was looking at these and looking at the quality of the colors. And this doesn't look like, I said, I asked them, I said, these are not pith. Because in one of them, I saw what are known as laid lines. If you're familiar with European and Western paper, they would have lines, vertical lines in the paper. And if you look, hold on a second. There we go. If you look at this page, this is a little tip in the future. If somebody says something is pith paper and you're not sure, I mean, usually you can tell by looking at it by the quality of the work, the way the details are done, like the details here, there's no fuzziness. There's a fuzziness on pith paper because it's fairly fibrous on the front. This doesn't have it. And when you look down here, you see these lines running down the page. Those are from being made, that's from paper. That's how they used to make paper. And they would press it, and it would leave what they call laid lines, L-A-I-D. And if you see laid lines, it's paper. It's not pith, because pith wasn't made that way. Pith was just sliced out of a tree. And these pretty clearly look like laid lines to me, but they described it as pith. Pith typically doesn't bring as much as paintings on good European paper when they're done in China. And also the size, 11 by 15. I'm not that—I don't think I've seen many slices of pith. pith that are 11 by 15. Usually they're several inches smaller because the tree doesn't get that big. Anyway, this was a great set of paintings. And I think it went very reasonably. It went for $1,600 plus premium or around $500 or $600 bucks a painting. They They should have probably – somebody got a great buy. Whoever bought these got a great buy. I'll put it that way you because the frame job alone on them is worth $1,000 – thousand dollar is worth, well, about $1,800, $2,000 worth of frames. your So somebody paid for the frames and got the paintings for free basically. And the same thing – now, this is a Pith painting. time. They had other paintings. This is a gouache Pith painting. And when you look at this. And you see there's a slight fuzziness to it. That's how you tell it's pith. It's slightly, almost like it's slightly out of focus because the paper is very fibrous. And here's another one that was in the sale that they also thought was pith. This is clearly paper. You look how sharp and clear all the lines are. You can't get that sort of sharpness on a pith. You can get pretty close to it. The Tid Qua, the Sun Qua workshops could get close to that, but they couldn't do this. They can't do this kind of shading on the on the leaves and so forth. You can't see the laid lines to it because they probably put a layer of But this is this is pith. That's that's on paper. And this was a wonderful picture. And somebody got a great buy because and this again is one of those situations. The site size, the sheet size is 15 by 19 inches. Gouache on pith. I don't think there's ever been a pith tree that could have produced a 15 by 19 inch sheet of paper. And this was a very nice picture. The estimate, I think, was sort of in the right range, but they misdescribed it. So somebody got a steal. Because I think a lot of people said, oh, I don't want to, you know, $600 is plenty for a Pith painting. And even though we've seen Pith paintings doing pretty well lately, I think, or maybe there was confusion. At any rate, this ended up going for just $600 plus premium or about $780. Thank And it could have probably brought $1,500 to $2,000. you so It was a very nice painting. But, you know, I'm not knocking Alex Cooper for it. That's what they thought. much But, you know, maybe next time have somebody that knows for the difference between pith and paper, you know, look at the paintings, joining because this is a very, very fine early 19th century gouache on paper, probably Whatman or Dutch paper. us. All right. And then this, this is a series of interiors also that were listed as being gouaches on pith. And these are not pith either. These are also on paper. And again, it looks like they came, might've come from the same workshop as the previous one, judging by the way the red balustrade is being done here. And this one here. Very similar. They might have come out of associated albums or something because the way this balustrade is done and the configuration of it and the balustrade here, very, very, extremely similar. Extremely similar. So is the brushing technique, the painting technique. And these were beautiful. And somebody got the both of them for, what's that work out to? About $600 a piece again. And these are more in line with the size of pith paper, but still a bit on the big size, 10 by 13 inches. Very, very nice paintings. Very nice China trade paintings. And then over to this. This was in the sale. Now, I had two inquiries on these jars, people that were interested in them, because they're very unusual. They're sort of diamond-formed, as they describe them, Chinese export jars from the 18th century, done around 1780 or so. And it's got the very well-known scene that you see on lots of China trade porcelains, on punch bowls, teapots, plates, everything. Very common. But the shape of these is highly unusual. Very unusual to see this form. And these are fairly good sizes, I recall, about 12 inches or so, 10 inches, 10 and a quarter inches in height. So they were a nice size. They were estimated reasonably at $1,000 to $1,500, and they went well over it. They ended up going for about $2,700, $2,800. But it's a very rare shape. It's an unusual shape, and the period and the decoration is all in keeping with the 1780s or so, roughly, plus or minus 10 years. All right, and then there was this. This plate I brought up on a Patreon video because I thought it was so wonderful. This is a very unusual plate. Fort William in Calcutta is depicted on this plate. The plate was done around 1800 or so. 1790s to 1810 somewhere in there but it was a wonderfully done and very beautiful border on this. Extremely attractive border decoration and then you have the fort in the background. Pretty sure it's Calcutta. Yeah Calcutta, India, Fort William. And it was based on an engraving that was done in England by Laurie and Whittle in 1794. And this was not an uncommon practice where they would take English engravings and plates and give them to Chinese artists and have them duplicated onto a piece of porcelain, which they did with incredible fidelity. And this was a very nice piece. So with the buyer's premium, it ended up going for about... It's $780 roughly for over the $300 to $500 estimate. I think it's a wonderful piece, though, and it's another one of these documentary things. You can go back and you can find the source of the image. You know the period it came from. And, of course, the British and their involvement in Calcutta and in India with the opium trade. It all fits into that whole era just beautifully. All right. I'm glad it did well. It deserved it. That was a very unusual piece of porcelain. It only had one minor little area of glazed discoloration right in there, I noticed, but the rest of it was so gloriously well done. Why not go for it? And how big was this? 11 by 14 inches. So it was good size. Had a nice presentation side. Looked great hanging on a wall or, you know, serve vegetables and fruit in it or something. All right. So that's sort of it for the week. So there's a lot going on. The prices are good. You always want to look for the anomaly or the thing where something is slightly misidentified or misdescribed because it opens the door for an opportunity. Because most people don't look beyond the description. So always remember that. When you look at a listing, Eight out of ten people, if somebody is described as being a certain thing, the viewer will often think that, well, because they're an auction house, they must know. They must have an expert. And sometimes they just miss things. Sometimes things get missed. They're dealing with hundreds and hundreds of objects, and it's not a hard thing to miss something. And you want to look for those opportunities where you can get yourself a nice object at a very reasonable price. Uh, cause then you have more money to spend on other things another day. All right. That's, that's how I view it. Especially if you're a collector and if you dealer, you know, um, use your own, um, own knowledge based on your own market, where you are. Um, if you're in a major city and you've got high rent, you can buy expensive things and sell them for higher prices because you've got the foot traffic for it. And so it goes. All right. Have a great week. And, oh, last week, just as a point of interest, on the newsletter page over on BidAmount, the week before we had something up here on the— What was the last heading up here? On the Society of Cincinnati Export Plates. And this week, this past week, we had up for the week the workshops of Newport, Rhode Island, furniture making, which I thought would be kind of fun because I know a number of you have commented and you like to see things about furniture. This was a very good article, and it had all kinds of line drawings and depictions in it and so forth. And there's that famous Goddard Townsend School shell block. um that they would put on their furniture and then there's there's a reverse of it going into the wood and uh it was a very good article at any rate it was it wasn't too long it's about a probably a 10 minute five five or 10 minute read depending how fast you read um with illustrations and so forth so if you if you read that you went through it and you enjoyed it let me know um because there's all kinds of stuff out there that's sort of interesting that people enjoy seeing All right. Have a wonderful weekend. It is rainy and very unusually warm here today, actually. It's probably in the low 60s. So we'll take it. That's very good. All right. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to us here if you haven't. Join us for the weekly video and join us over on Patreon if you're of a mind to. We'd love to have the company. And thanks for watching. Okay. Bye-bye.