Christine,

You might want to look into the programs offered by the Williamsburg
Institute.  You can get a listing by starting at the Colonial Williamsburg
home page: www.history.org and searching for "Williamsburg Institute
Programs".  As a graduate student years ago I attended the Antiques Forum,
and it was fabulous.  A lot of the seminars scheduled for next year sound
great.  Good luck!  - Anne Douglas.

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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Christine Mouw wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> Does anyone know of any connoisseurship workshops or courses
> offered to non-graduate students besides the Winterthur January
> course? (it's a bit late to get into that one this year)
>
> What I really want to learn is how to distinguish styles of objects and their
> place of origin by looking at the object itself.  How, for example, does one
> tell the difference between a chair made in Boston in the 18th century vs.
> one made in Philadelphia during the same time period?
>
> Any help would be, of course, much appreciated.
>
> Chris.
>
> Christine Mouw
> Assistant Curator
> Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
> West Branch, Iowa  52358
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