About This Magazine

The Green Mountain Collector is an independent magazine about antiques and collecting in Vermont and New England. It is written for people who find old objects at estate sales, country auctions, flea markets and family houses, and who want to understand what they have found before they keep it, restore it or pass it on.

What this magazine covers

The magazine is organised in five sections. Antique Clocks covers timekeeping, from tall case clocks to carriage clocks. Lamps and Lighting covers oil lamps, leaded and slag glass shades and reverse painted work. Advertising and Ephemera covers tins, signs, trade cards and paper. China, Glass and Porcelain covers tableware and its marks. Smalls and Sporting covers jewelry, hatpins, bottles, textiles and fly fishing tackle.

Each section opens with a guide to its families, and each guide links to pages that take the reading of an object further. The method is the same everywhere: look at the whole object, then at its parts, then at its marks, and trust the agreement between them rather than any single feature.

How this magazine treats its subjects

The Green Mountain Collector is a magazine, not a shop. It sells nothing and it values nothing for a fee. The dealers, auction houses, associations and makers it mentions are described in the third person and are never presented as the magazine itself. Where an outside body is named, it is named as a source or a reference, with a link, and the reader is left to judge it.

The domain druryhouse.com once carried the website of an antiques shop in Weston, Vermont. That shop is not this magazine, and this magazine does not speak for it, sell for it or answer for it. What the two share is a subject: the collecting of old objects in this part of the country. That subject is public, and it is the whole of what this magazine is about.

Who writes it

The magazine is written by an editorial team and signed collectively as The Green Mountain Collector editorial team. It does not invent a person, a shop, a valuation or an experience. Where a fact is uncertain, the magazine says so, and where an object needs a specialist, the magazine says that too.

Corrections and questions

Readers who find an error, or who want to suggest a subject, are welcome to write. The contact page explains how, and the legal notice sets out the publishing details and how the magazine treats privacy and images.