An article in the Wall Street Journal can provide it. The value of antiques, specifically brown furniture, continues its decline. Here are some stinging highlights…

• That American Colonial George III table? It would fetch less on the market than a twill love seat at Crate and Barrel.
• Most people with money to spend on furniture just, well, don’t like antiques.
• there’s really only one true measure of the value of a piece: “Do you love it?