We made a few mistakes when we started collecting. Now, Sy Rapaport is our mentor and advisor. We collect only American objects in only the finest possible condition, things that please our eyes. Our reputation has got around, and now we are only offered the best of anything. People know to bring us only the purest and most untouched objects.
Taste is our passion.
Whatever we collect has to have the best surface, the best form, be in the finest possible condition, and it has to please the eye. We own other weathervanes, but that's not our criteria. It was a wonderfully proportioned Connecticut piece, with floral carved rosettes, fans on top and bottom drawers, a cyma-shaped skirt, and the dimensions were just about perfect, as Maine dealer Ken Tuttle noted. The piece had restoration to a few drawer lips, but Ken Tuttle considered them minor problems. Her client was a dealer who often buys for New York City dealer Leigh Keno.