Margaret K. Hofer is curator of Decorative Arts at the New-York Historical Society, where she has organised numerous exhibitions, including 'A New Light on Tiffany' (2007), which she co-authored. Debra Schmidt Bach, associate curator at the New York Historical Society organised the exhibition 'The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society',(2010). Kenneth Ames is professor of American ... Read moreDecorative Arts and Material Culture of the 18th and 19th-centuries at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. His publications include 'Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition'; 'Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture' (1995). David Barquist is curator of American Decorative Arts at Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a scholar on colonial New York silver. He is the author of 'Myer Myers Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York' (2001). Show Less