”Collecting Rarities in Silver” with Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh

One in a free six part lecture series which accompanies the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show.

With experience spanning three decades of silver collecting, dealers Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh of Spencer Marks, Ltd. will discuss what makes items rare and special and how collecting and connoisseurship have evolved influencing the market. Discussion will include utilitarian objects as well as museum acquisitions.
 
Spencer Gordon & Mark McHugh have been in business together as Spencer Marks since 1986 selling fine antique silver to clients including many museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Winterthur Museum; and The Baltimore Museum of Art; several historical societies and many important private collectors all over the world. The editor of Silver Magazine has said they are "...some of the most knowledgeable (people) in the field of silver" and others agree. They have been quoted as experts in publications as diverse as Maine Antique Digest, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Town & Country and American Express's Departures Magazine. Both Mark and Spencer focus on research and unlocking the story behind an object.