I found this photo about a year after the matching bird photo posted earlier! It could well have been in the same dealer's unorganized collection but the reunion was still wondrous.
Angelica of Swapatorium has introduced me to her world, and what a world it is! She's an accomplished hunter and quite generously shares her trophies. Take a look!
She has contributed the handsome snapshot of Clyde and friend above. Reminds me of Alex.
The flu & laryngitis, apartment hunting, and a chaotic few weeks at my shop have all taken me away from uploading, downloading and hosting. An end-of-May excursion and a June move to a gorgeous apartment (any collector will no doubt sympathize with the impending task of packing and moving of a near Collyer-size mountain of curiousities and books) will make my blogging a bit spotty for the next couple of months - my sincere apologies in advance. But please do keep it coming! Each and every contribution means a lot to me.
If you would like to contribute to this project, please email a good quality image to socus.locus@gmail.com. Please include how you would like to be credited. The idea here is to assemble collections of heretofore unknown pieces. All images are copyrighted by their owners. Please respect copyrights! I don't have the spare time to defend myself against spoilsports. Suggestions for topics, comments, gushing praise and/or intriguing offers can also be sent to the email address above.
As a collector of many curiosities and items of limited appeal and availability, with limited means and space, and having many friends who have similar passions and limitations, it occurred to me that there are many of us and that we could easily band together and share our interests, knowledge and collections to create a trove of inspiration for and with each other. My intent is to post an obscure topic and request submissions via email, which will then be curated and posted for everyone's benefit, effectively forming a collective collection where ownership is not the objective. In this way, a substantial collection could theoretically be pieced together from many small collections, or from the odd, companionless pieces of note that I presume are scattered over the world. My hope is that this will lead to the publication of books of these obscure collections for all of us to consult for our various projects. My project will include Show & Tell evenings in the NYC area in which those of a similar mind can assemble and share their collections and the anecdotes, history and background that accompanies them, while meeting others who are cut from a similar cloth and opening up the possibility for forging new interests and friendships. The stated emphasis here is a very broad idea that incorporates that which is suggested by the following words: antiques, antiquity, the various branches of history, scarcity, curiosities, obscurity. I am going to focus predominantly on topics that bring up little or no information when online searches are performed.
I am an artist, collector and picture framer. My interests are varied and include natural history especially but history in all its forms, music, traditional and obscure and dying arts, antiques, curiosities, thoughtful design, books & film, and the thirst for knowledge.