The Magazine Antiques - June 1970

Overview
This June 1970 issue of The Magazine Antiques is a substantial period reference for collectors, dealers, decorators, and researchers interested in American decorative arts, museum collecting, historic houses, eighteenth-century furniture, ceramics, and silver. The cover features Infant Blowing a Conch Shell, a lead sculpture dated circa 1670-1680, and the table of contents reflects the magazine's traditional strength: serious, object-centered scholarship joined to a richly illustrated antiques marketplace.

The issue includes articles and departments on Philipsburg Manor and the Upper Mills at North Tarrytown, Louisbourg and its archaeology, ceramics from an eighteenth-century wilderness fort, a Louis XIII cabinet at Toledo, Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, silver tureens in the Campbell Museum collection, Charleston furniture, Charleston silver, museum accessions, collectors' notes, and books about antiques. It is the kind of issue that remains useful well beyond its publication month because it preserves period scholarship, collecting priorities, dealer advertising, institutional attributions, and market language in one physical source.

Dating / Background
Published in June 1970, this issue belongs to the mature twentieth-century run of The Magazine Antiques, one of the important American periodicals for the study and trade of antiques and decorative arts. The contents show the broad reach of the magazine at the time: American furniture and silver, European furniture, archaeological research, museum collections, historic sites, and dealer offerings. For anyone researching provenance, taste, collecting history, or the antiques trade itself, back issues like this can be more than casual reading; they are primary documents of the market and scholarship of their moment.

The advertising is also part of the value. The rear Shreve, Crump & Low advertisement presents furniture, Sheffield plate, Wedgwood, brass, and iron objects with period prices and concise dealer descriptions. Such pages help document how objects were categorized, priced, and presented to collectors in 1970.

Why Collect
Back issues of The Magazine Antiques are useful collector references because they combine scholarship, connoisseurship, museum material, and trade advertising in a format that is difficult to reproduce digitally. This issue has particular appeal for readers focused on early American furniture, Charleston silver and furniture, Winterthur-related scholarship, historic-house interpretation, and eighteenth-century material culture. It can serve as a reading copy, research source, decorator shelf object, or period companion to a specialized antiques library.

Dimensions (inches)

• Height: 12
• Width: 9 1/8
• Depth: 1/2
• Weight: 1.6 lbs

Condition
Good condition with occasional bumped corners, fraying at the cover edges, spine roll, moderate handling, clean interiors, and light age toning to the sheets. The issue remains complete and usable as a reference copy, with condition consistent with a handled 1970 periodical.