June, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND ,GARDENS ix 
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Travel 
THE ANTIQUE COLLECTING 
INSTINCT 
By ROBERT LEONARD AMES 
ERHAPS the antiquarian, like the poet, 
Pi born and not made. The spirit of 
the true collector will take him into all sorts 
of places—into the bypaths as well as the 
highways—for he has learned that in even 
the most unpromising spots a treasure may 
be discovered. Possibly the collecting in- 
stinct may direct him, for if it be that the 
true journalist is gifted with the “nose for 
news” it is quite as logical to suppose that 
like intuitions in others may be equally 
keen. 
Who could think of a field for collect- 
ing, more unprofitable than the homes of 
the very poor of the lower East side of 
New York city?—and yet here one collec- 
tor discovered the most beautiful pieces of 
old metal work which formed the greater 
part of a vast collection of brasses, samo- 
vars, candelabra, and many other objects 
of wondrous beauty. The writer remem- 
bers visiting this great collection late one 
Winter afternoon. In a long and lofty room 
of an old New York house the walls had 
been covered with a fabric of a rich, deep 
brown. The woodwork had been painted 
and rubbed down to an old ivory tone and 
amid this beautiful setting was arranged 
a dazzling array of brass, old braziers with 
richly perforated covers from Portugal or 
Spain; milk cans and warming pans with 
lids etched and pierced, from Holland or 
Belgium; candlesticks of every size and 
period and from every country, and the 
most wonderful objects—lamps and other 
religious emblems which must have been 
for generations the houshold treasures of 
the Dispersed of Judah. The effect of this 
bewildering variety of metal, softly pol- 
ished to a velvety surface, with the after- 
noon sun cast upon it, is a recollection ever 
to be enjoyed. ies 
Into our great cities is poured each year 
a vast horde of immigrants from the older 
countries of Europe. These people arrive 
with the tenacity of ideas which has come 
down to them through long centuries of 
poverty and oppression, but a subtle some- 
thing in the atmosphere of the land of the 
free seems to cause a sudden change in 
their attitude and this, of course, affects 
their methods and modes of living. They 
try, perhaps quite naturally, to become part 
of the life which they find about them and 
begin almost immediately to adopt the 
styles of dress which they see suggested in 
the shop windows and are quite willing to 
discard the costumes in which they reached 
Ellis Island, for the cheap finery they see 
worn upon the street. These altered ideas 
soon find expression in their willingness to 
sell their treasures and heirlooms for what 
will give more enjoyment, and right here 
is the opportunity for the careful collector 
to secure what to him are the most beauti- 
ful objects. The poor from Russia are 
soon ready to dispose of their icons and 
antique brasses, their samovars and such 
strange, semi-barbaric jewelry as their pov- 
erty has left to them. The women from 
Italy are eager to exchange their filet laces, 
embroidery and bright colored shawls for 
paltry furbelows, and the Norwegians see 
little of value in their carved wood and old 
pewter, when their sale will procure some 
of the hideous household furnishings which 
they see on sale everywhere, and which 
they think are examples of American taste. 
An antique dealer was once asked where 
he obtained the wonderful and beautiful 
things which crowded his shop. He re- 
plied that he imported but few antiques, 
but that he or his agents are continually 
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