Guide to Maine Antiques
From the earliest cartographers who tried to make sense of Maine's vast wilderness and jagged coastline to printmakers such as Winslow Homer and Currier & Ives, the Pine Tree State has provided the source material for printed matter since Mr. Gutenberg's
Sleuthing Out AntiquesCollecting fine prints is really no mystery at all, says detective novelist and antique print dealer Lea Wait of Edgecomb.
Lea Wait grew up in history. As a young girl, she recalls standing on the front lawn of her family home in Edgecomb on languid summer days and waving to tourist-laden riverboats that ambled up the Sheepscot River vying for a look at the gracious Colonial she called home, a structure reportedly built by a captain enjoined to smuggle Marie Antoinette out of France at the start of the revolution.
