But caught between hearty sips of takeout soup from the auction house's rooftop café one fall afternoon, the dapper regular on PBS's 'Antiques Road Show' gnawed on a question about his ardor for Americana.Īmericana is a handy term that covers just about every imaginable collectible one might find in an American home (or barn) from, say, 1660 (the so-called Pilgrim era) to 1845 (the so-called Empire period).
Keno, Sotheby's senior specialist and director of business development for American furniture and decorative arts, is rarely at a loss for words.
