Clinton Howell Antiques

Clinton Howell Antiques

English antique furniture is more than a sum of its parts. Every piece that I have bought and sold over the last thirty-five years has in some small way contributed to what I have bought that is being shown on this website. And yet, what I knew then and what I know now is not at all the same. English antique furniture has been for me a learning curve that is not readily apparent. Part of the truth about that learning curve is in my appreciation for what I deal in which never ceases to grow, particularly when I come upon something that is, as far as I know, unique. It is, in more than a word, a sublimely delightful business to be in, finding and handling items that were beautifully made and, remarkably well looked after for two hundred years and more. Please take a minute to browse this site and see if you, too, can find the enthusiasm that I have for this genre.

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I would like to think of myself as a thinker, but I am not certain that I fully qualify. In reading, "The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry, it is clear to me that great thinking requires a dedication to the re-thinking of those things you consider well thought out. The battling of the 1918 flu pandemic was a battle not just to save lives, but to re-cast medicine and the science of medicine to cope with such extraordinary crises and to jettison those methods, despite their current ...Read More