Editoral Page

	ON THE COVER - September Issue 2006 Celebrating 20 Years! The Antique Shoppe Newspaper is now 20 years old! The newspaper has evolved with the antique industry in Florida and the Southeast. The firs issue was 12 pages and published 6 featured six display advertisers. Our page layout and content has continually changed over the 20 years of experience. The first issue used one color on 4 pages, we now use up to 27 pages per issue of process color.
	Q. I have seen several pieces of antique furniture in shops and at shows that were made by the Mahogany Association. I saw a table in a shop recently that had a Mahogany Association tag but no further information. I am now confused. Is the Mahogany Association a company that makes solid mahogany furniture? Are they still in business? Are their products actually antiques? Anything you can tell me would be appreciated.
	The Mystical, Magical World of Maxfiled Parrish.....by Carol J.Perry Is there anyone among us whose parents or grandparents didn't include among the family's decorative accessories at least ~ Maxfield Parrish reproduction? From the turn of the century right up until the outbreak of World War II, Maxfield Parrish enjoyed tremendous popularity among America's great and growing "middle class." Ethereal nymphs, marble porticos, castles and moats, incredibly rich, translucent blues...held great appeal for the "I don't know anything about art but I know what I like" school of thought.
	The Beauty of Bakelite Jewelry....by Robert Reed When it comes to classic folk pottery some consider North Carolina to be the fairest land of all. Historians find the enduring tradition of North Carolina's pottery making to be nearly unequaled in the United States. Artists, collectors, and worldwide visitors still marvel at masterpieces of redware and stoneware crafted generations ago.
	THE ANTIQUE DETECTIVE Duck Decoys Still Affordable & Collectible Duck hunting season is about to begin and so is the hunt for duck decoys. Not that collectors need a season to go hunting for them. Before they began to be seriously collected in the 1970s , they were thought of as another form of folk art. Now they are known as “hunter’s art”. As early as 1934, collector Joel D. Barber wrote a book, “Wild Fowl Decoys,” referring to them as “floating sculptures.
	One of the most frequently seen arrangements of seating furniture in an antique shop or at a show is the ubiquitous "parlor set." It seems to usually consist of a rather poorly constructed small scale love seat and a couple of more or less matching chairs, one of them probably a rocker. Not much to look at and not much to get real excited about. But looking at a set like that is like looking at a small bird and trying to imagine the gigantic, majestic dinosaur from which it originated.
	Q. Attached are photos of two antique Russian candlestick/lamps that my mother inherited. There is a brass cap on the bottom with a Russian inscription, large building and the date 1833. The shades are glass and each has two different portraits opposite and a lion holding a sword. They are not a matched set. Any information appreciated.

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