From the Editor: Because Paul Said So

As I write this, spring has sprung here in Texas—at least this week. Next week, we could be back in the 20s, but my hope springs eternal. With the promise of renewal in the air, it feels somehow fitting that this is my first issue as editor of Kovels Antique Trader.If you’d told my 13-year-old self—whose weekly chore it was to dust my mom’s McCoy pottery with minimal breakage—that I’d someday be writing this column as the new editor of a national antiques maga