OUR EXPERTS A to C

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Lindsay Anderson
A professional antiques dealer for three decades, Lindsay has a special interest in early Western Canadian ethnic furnishings and folk art, factory-made furniture circa 1900 and vintage guitars. He has supplied artifacts to the National Museum, the Western Development Museum and the Motherwell Homestead Museum, and has conducted appraisals for institutions and individuals.

Peter Baker
Peter specializes in rural Canadian furniture and accessories with a particular interest in 18th and 19th century Quebec items. Peter enjoys restoration work and he has a strong technical knowledge of construction techniques, original colours and preservation. He runs a shop in Athelston, Quebec. http://www.peterbakerantiques.com

Heather Baker
Heather has been dealing in tin toys since she was three! (She grew up in a family of collectors.) A member of the Canadian Toy Collectors Society, Heather has been in business for thirty years and specializes in toys and nostalgia from the 1890’s onwards. She owns the successful store Baker’s Dozen in Vancouver.

Jeri Bass
Jeri came to Canada from the Southern United States in 1971. A bookseller for twenty-four years, Jeri is also a graduate of the Personal Property Appraisers Guild course and has participated in numerous appraisal clinics on the West Coast. She is the secretary of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada.

Rosemary Beckett
Rosemary opened her first antique shop in 1970 and since then has developed and led an adult education on Antiques and Collectibles and participated in many antique shows and evaluation days around the Maritimes. Rosemary is a regular guest on CBC Radio’s Maritime Noon phone-in show on the topic of antiques.

Brian Bell
Brian is the owner of The Coin Cabinet in Saint John and Moncton. His area of expertise is in Canadian, World and American coinage, paper currency, sports memorabilia and cards and famous signatures.

Geoffrey Bell
Geoffrey is a Past President of both the Canadian Numismatic Association and the Canadian Paper Money Society. He is a lifelong collector and researcher of paper money, medals and tokens, sports memorabilia and ephemera. He once owned the Coin Cabinet in Moncton, NB, a shop currently serving the sports card and coin collecting fraternities. <more>

Jessica Bent
Jessica is the president of MJR Fine period Jewels. She earned her degree in Fine and Decorative Arts from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and is currently working on her Gemologists Certificate from the Gemological Institute of America. She is regular contributor to Canadian Jeweller, Canada’s leading trade magazine.

Pat Boone
Pat is a life long doll collector with over 2200 dolls in her collection. A member of the United Federation of Doll Collectors, Pat has a special interest in Canadian dolls. Pat is also interested in toys, games and teddy bears. Pat is an internationally known doll sculptor and has often led workshops on doll collecting.

Michael Brandt
Michael has over 40 years in the antique business. He has been buying and selling furniture, china, glass and collectables since 1977. He has a special interest in antique toys and Christmas items. Michael has done numerous appraisal days for the McIntosh Gallery in London and has been writing a column called ‘Buried Treasure’ for the London Free Press since 1998.

Bill Brayley
Bill Brayley is the owner and general manager of Crowther & Brayley Ltd., a firm providing appraisal and auction services in Halifax and Nova Scotia. He is a charter member and past secretary of the Canadian Association of Personal Property Appraisers with approximately 27 years experience in the field.

David Brown
David has been collecting antiques since his 20s and is particularly passionate about silver. He opened his first store in 1980 before relocating to the Montreal Antiques Centre in May 2005. His specialties include formal English furniture, porcelain, silver, prints and accessories. He has been a member of the Canadian Antique Dealers Association for 22 years.

Hugh Bulmer
Hugh has been an auctioneer and appraiser for over twenty years, both in England and now in Vancouver. His areas of expertise include English furniture, porcelain, scientific instruments, Oriental ceramics and ivories, and European sculpture. Hugh is the Vice President of Maynards Fine Arts Auctioneers in Vancouver.

Darrell Butler
Darrell has been the head curator of Kings Landing in Fredericton, New Brunswick for over thirty years and has studied antiques at the University of Delaware/H.F.DuPont Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Butler is eminently qualified to appraise and discuss items dating from the Loyalists to the late Victorians including furniture, textiles, ceramics, tools, folk art and art.

Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell began his life-long love affair with sports memorabilia when he was just 7. He’s been collecting and studying the trends for close to 40 years and has recently begun doing appraisal work with Lelands, an American-based sports company. He is particularly adept at authenticating sports autographs.

Pamela Campbell
Pamela holds a Masters Degree from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England specializing in the decorative arts and a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Honours) from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, majoring in Art History. Pam was previously the Specialist and Director of Decorative Arts and Head of Appraisals at Sotheby's Canada and produced the international decorative arts auctions in Canada. During Pam's ten-year tenure at Sotheby's she was also Head of Special Events which included an outreach program of appraisal and fund raising projects for public galleries and museums across Canada. Early in her career she did curatorial work at the Decorative Arts wing of The Art Gallery of Ontario and a term at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Pam is a past member of the Board of the Volunteer Committee of the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto and a past Secretary of the Canadian Antique Dealers Association.

Janet Carlile
Janet has been an independent antiques evaluator for many years, beginning her career with Sotheby’s. She has lectured about antiques extensively in the U.K. and Germany and from 1994-99 she hosted the BBC Radio program “The A-Z of Antiques”. Janet has a special interest in 18th, 19th and 20th century glass, pottery and porcelain as well as silver and furniture.

Lee Caswell
Lee Caswell has been an antique dealer in his hometown of Port Hope Ontario for the past 20 years. He sells primarily eighteenth and early nineteenth century antiques consisting of brass, glass, silver, pottery, porcelain and formal furniture of this period. Lee is the current President of the Canadian Antiques Dealers Association (CADA) and has opened a quality multi-dealer shop, which he is co-managing next to the Historic Capitol Theatre in downtown Port Hope, called Antiques on Queen.

Lee has a keen interest in Historic Architecture and is the past President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Port Hope Branch. He is currently restoring a Georgian-Victorian Cottage in the Historic district called Englishtown in uptown Port Hope.

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Leonard Clarke
Leonard began his career in the antiques trade in Ireland in the 1950s and has continued in the business since immigrating to Canada in 1976. He is a member of the Silver Society, the Northern Ceramic Circle and the English Ceramic Circle. Leonard owns and operates Pacific Antiques in Victoria.

Arthur Clausen
A founding member of both the Institute of Canadian Certified Auctioneers and the Auctioneer Association of Canada, Arthur has been a licensed auctioneer since 1970 and owns Clausen and Sons Auctioneers in Edmonton.. He has done appraisals for numerous agencies including Revenue Canada, Queens Bench, University of Alberta as well as provincial museums in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Arthur has a personal interest in British silver, 18th and 19th century furniture and Victorian glass.

Kevin Colgan
A generalist with a wide range of knowledge including silver, porcelain, furniture, and paintings, Kevin has 30 years of experience in the antiques business. He spent a decade doing on-air appraisals for CBC Radio in Montreal and Ottawa and headed the Montreal operation of Phillips as both principle auctioneer and General Manager as well as writing their catalogue descriptions for many years. Kevin has also been called upon to give valuations as an an expert witness in court.

Gregory Connor
A member of the Canadian Antique Dealer’s Association (CADA) and the Furniture History Society, Greg has operated a store in Stratford for over 20 years. Greg has participated in CADA shows for the past decade, both as a dealer and as part of the vetting committee. His area of expertise is furniture, but considers himself to be a capable generalist.

John Cooper
Although his training is in the fields of Biology and genetics, John has been involved in the antiques business for four decades. Primarily interested in silver, ceramics, glass and original art, John has taught courses on antique identification at the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg School Division. John owns Abbey Antiques and Art in Winnipeg.

Charles Cripps
Charles was a member of the International Society of Appraisers and a certified appraiser of personal Property. A former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Charles had been appraising antiques, collectibles, silver and porcelain for over three decades. He ran Townsend Antiques and Appraisals in Edmonton and died at age 79 on February 15, 2008, following a brief critical illness. He will be sorely missed.

Roger Crowther
Roger’s life-long interest in silver began at the heels of his father, an antiques dealer, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. By a strange twist of fate, Roger ended up in Halifax, Nova Scotia and discovered that there was silver to be purchased and he began collecting. A former Literature professor, Roger has given talks and informal lectures on Ecclesiastical Silver and has bought and sold a number of finds through Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

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