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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 168453, member: 25"]Museums are good if you don't overdo it. Little and often and there are some great museums in Paris. Forget the super famous ones with the megamillion objects, find smaller ones with a more domestic type of collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned a lot of my stuff at auction rooms, the catalogue tells you what stuff is (most of the time) and you can handle and examine it, which you cannot do in museums.</p><p><br /></p><p>Museums are ruined for me now, I keep seeing stuff like that I have bought and sold locked up in glass cases. But you cannot beat them for that first perspective on things.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most vital thing to understand is that our antiques are yesterday's everyday stuff. Most of it changed style very slowly, and almost everyone copied almost everyone else. In the same way all modern cars look much alike, so do all 17th C spoons and 18th C longcase clocks and late 19th C furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same way that you could probably, right now, wander the streets of Paris and roughly date every car you saw, so once you have the basic idea of how things looked in an historical period, so you can do the same with antiques as you see them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does take a while. Try to start with a narrow focus and widen your scope as you get the idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 168453, member: 25"]Museums are good if you don't overdo it. Little and often and there are some great museums in Paris. Forget the super famous ones with the megamillion objects, find smaller ones with a more domestic type of collection. I learned a lot of my stuff at auction rooms, the catalogue tells you what stuff is (most of the time) and you can handle and examine it, which you cannot do in museums. Museums are ruined for me now, I keep seeing stuff like that I have bought and sold locked up in glass cases. But you cannot beat them for that first perspective on things. The most vital thing to understand is that our antiques are yesterday's everyday stuff. Most of it changed style very slowly, and almost everyone copied almost everyone else. In the same way all modern cars look much alike, so do all 17th C spoons and 18th C longcase clocks and late 19th C furniture. In the same way that you could probably, right now, wander the streets of Paris and roughly date every car you saw, so once you have the basic idea of how things looked in an historical period, so you can do the same with antiques as you see them. It does take a while. Try to start with a narrow focus and widen your scope as you get the idea.[/QUOTE]
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