P is for Provenance
Sunday July 5, 2009
Appraisers tend to throw the word
provenance around pretty freely, and rightfully so. It's an important consideration when valuing antiques and collectibles, including the chair shown here which belonged to Scottish poet Robert Burns. Click through to learn about the colorful name given to this chair by Burns, and a little more about what provenance is all about.
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Comments
Pamela, I hope you don’t have any Scottish readers… they’d be likely to hunt you down and subject you to death by bagpipes. Rabbie Burns English?!
Reminds me of when I recently mailed a present to my cousin in Scotland and the man at the PO said: Scotland? That’s in the UK, isn’t it? I replied: NOT BY CHOICE!!
Had a good notion to recite the speech from Braveheart
The Cameron Clan
The thought of death by bagpipes. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Not sure where I got the English reference, unless it was with the photo description. I’ll change it straight away. Antiques I know, poets, not so much!