National Appraisal Consultants, LLC will be permanently closing on or before December 31, 2022. The firm will no longer conduct any business beyond calendar year 2022.

For professional appraisal services, visit castnervalues.com or contact: Leon Castner at Castner Estate Services: leoncastner@comcast.net or (484) 973-6008

By Leon Castner Wallace Nutting was a nationally known printmaker and furniture expert of the 1900-30’s era.  His work is highly collectible and now recognized by most antique lovers.  Decorators particularly love his simple and somewhat romantic view of the American Colonial era.  Museums as well as collectors avidly seek his furniture, which copied early […]

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Spotlight on Art: Walter Emerson Baum

Alderfer Auction’s Fine & Decorative Arts Auction on September 28, 2017  featured some exceptional and very collectible works of art. Among them, were several paintings by Pennsylvania Impressionist Walter Emerson Baum (1884-1956) who was part of an esteemed group of artists that were also referred to as the Bucks County Impressionists or artists of The […]

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One of the greatest American painters of our area was born in Newburg, New York in 1825. After a short time his parents moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he learned drawing and painting with oil. He showed artistic talent at a young age, but was pushed into running the local family grocery. He was […]

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