Our Service Pledge

I’ll get your purchase n the nail within 3 business days n nearly all cases. I do live in a remote area and have to drive parcels to my post office in town.

About Us

My name is Scott Spencer Kesson .
I have been a collector since I was around 12. My first trip to see the Native American collection at the denver art museum ! I was overwhelmed! I couldn’t stop thinking about some of the pieces I had seen , this launched a lifetime passion for antique Native American art and artifact. My profession was conservation and restoration of antique Native American art, mostly beadwork and quillwork from the period 1750 to 1870. I worked on some of the more important private collections in the world and partnered with the conservation teams at two museums as an advisor on difficult restorations .
I had a particular eye for children’s things , dolls especially. My study of Native American toys really led me to dolls. I’ve always loved tribal dolls as they say so much about what a people value and illustrate how cultural traditions are learned and passed on . first time I got to handle and really spend some time with an antique French Doll I was captivated. I began to keep a weather eye on auctions and estates for antique dolls and began collecting china dolls and as you probably know one thing leads to another and soon enough my studio was full of dolls from all over the world.
My conservation work led me to collecting antique fabrics, originally fabrics that that were very specific to Native American and colonial American material but that soon led to just a passion for collecting antique fabrics! In particular fabrics made before 1850 that were all vegetal dyed.
I’ve been a natural dyer for 30 years and in my profession I work mostly with Cochineal, Madder and Indigo.
I’ve amassed a huge collection of antique materials and though I’m retired from restoration work now I still like to keep my hands busy making costumes for antique dolls .
I have a lot of antique French fabric that I bought specifically for costuming antique dolls and I’ll be listing some of my favorites .
My love for antique material, trade items of the early American frontier and items associated with the fur trade, antique beads from around the world, antique fabrics and textiles, antique dolls from Thuringia and Paris, Japan and the Czech Republic.
I have so many interests but it all really centers on an earlier color palette, things that are handmade and intended to educate or delight and fine artistic sensibilities. Things made with a skilled and delicate hand.
One of my Hero’s Willam Morris sad it well
“ Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
I think my shop will reflect my own sensibilities and while there may be an odd variety everything is what I consider to be the best example.