Home! Sweet Home!

If “Once upon a time. . .” is an invitation to enter a world of imagination and memory, our Once Upon A Time in America collection engraves that in bronze [338, 482]; silver [404, 420] and gold [281, 337].

So many of these treasures – whether hallowed or homespun – are haloed by song: Is she singing a show tune or standard? [233] Is this trio playing Tin Pan Alley or just any old alley? [236] How many kitchen tunk jigs and reels has this harvest table heard? [345] When Eugene Sandow sank his sore muscles into his living room couch after a strongman show, did he listen to Caruso or Eubie Blake? [271] What fantastic concerts got conducted from that F&A music stand? [574]

That Thonet bentwood piano stool [93] needs no piano to make sweet music! You can sit upon it and play cowbells [501]; a cowhide drum [566]; wind chimes [391]; even a Roger McGuinn or George Harrison song on that 1972 D12–20 Martin guitar [538].

Ever wonder who was teaching piano, violin, or singing lessons in Hudson 50 or 100 years ago? Leaf through the pages of these Hudson City Directories [181, 185-187] and find out.

If you ever visited Clark Murray in his studio, please stop by and tell us what he would listen to while making such great jazz with his paints, please.

It’s quite possible that every single one of these 601 lots was serenaded by song as it was fashioned, and surely they have all heard plenty of tunes down through their histories. As you stroll the aisles of the catalog or the PS! Showroom, whatever tunes play in your ear, know that they all resolve into the immortal refrain of John Howard Payne’s 1823 Home! Sweet Home!