The Magazine Antiques - February 1992

Overview
The Magazine Antiques - February 1992 is a substantive back issue of one of the most respected American periodicals devoted to fine and decorative arts, collecting, connoisseurship, and material culture. This issue is especially useful for collectors, dealers, decorators, researchers, and anyone building a reference shelf around American furniture, photography, and cross-cultural decorative arts. The cover reproduces a detail of Cascades of Columbia by F. Jay Haynes, c. 1885, from the Amon Carter Museum, giving the issue a strong visual identity rooted in nineteenth-century western landscape photography.

The contents include Martha A. Sandweiss on rethinking western landscape photography, Peter M. Kenny on a McKim, Mead and White stair hall of 1884, David L. Barquist on American looking glasses in the neoclassical style, 1780-1815, and Carl L. Crossman on China trade furniture. Together these articles give the issue more than casual magazine interest. It is a compact research object, useful for comparing scholarship, images, terminology, provenance language, and market-facing descriptions of antiques before the internet made such references fragmentary and searchable but often shallow.

Dating / Background
Published by Brant Publications in February 1992, this issue belongs to the mature late twentieth-century run of The Magazine Antiques, when the publication still served as a central meeting place for museum scholarship, dealer advertising, collecting taste, and serious decorative arts writing. The subject mix is particularly strong: photography of the American West, Gilded Age and late nineteenth-century architectural interiors, American neoclassical mirrors, and China trade furniture all remain active collecting and research categories.

Why Collect
Back issues of The Magazine Antiques are often valuable less as disposable magazines than as period reference material. They preserve article scholarship, period dealer advertisements, museum credits, collection terminology, and the visual culture of the antiques trade at a specific moment. This February 1992 issue has useful crossover appeal for readers interested in American furniture, early photography, western imagery, neoclassical design, and China trade collecting. It can serve as a reference copy, a dealer library item, or an affordable addition to a specialist shelf where older scholarship and market context still matter.

Dimensions (inches)

• Height: 11 7/8
• Width: 9 1/8
• Depth: 1/4
• Weight: 0.9 lbs

Condition
Fair/good condition. Light spine roll; lightly to moderately handled; clean interiors with slight age toning; bumped corners; cover edges are bunched with a slight tear on the front cover right edge; light mossing on the back cover. Oversized magazine format remains complete and readable, with the expected handling evidence of a period reference issue.