These people are committed to making it work, and most important, the content has layers of information. Leigh Keno said his brother, Mitchell, has joined his firm in New York City in order to give him more time to devote to Antiques America, the Roadshow , and his book tour with his brother Leslie. Every day you log on to Antiques America a different person will greet you, identify new additions to the site with a short video-audio clip, and in time there will be chat rooms with the experts. By the end of the year, you will be able to add another antiques site to the already long list of sites. There is a lot of information on line already on museum Web sites.
Trade papers have Web sites.
M.A.D. 's site was one of the first. In addition to information and dealer ads, it has a useful database for pricing Americana. Log on and search for highboy, for instance, and you get every highboy that sold at auction and was illustrated in M.A.D. since 1996. Soon David Hewett's American cabinetmakers database will be added to the M.A.D. site. So far the site is free.