Comments on: Identifying Historical Fire Brigade Buckets Painted by ‘The Borden Limner’

By: Russ Goldberger

Russ Goldberger — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:58:57 +0000

Marty,

I read your article about the Blunt portraits and fire buckets. Well-done! What a find!

Russ

By: Martin Willis

Martin Willis — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:15:56 +0000

Very nice of you Maggie, thank you.

By: Maggie Turnipseed

Maggie Turnipseed — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:42:55 +0000

I dream about researching items like you had at your auction…. Great Story!
The Pixar Podcast…… was very interesting too!
Thank you!

By: Martin Willis

Martin Willis — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:43:53 +0000

Thank you so much Lisa!

Martin

By: Lisa Mull

Lisa Mull — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:10:15 +0000

Thank you, Martin, for a thoroughly delightful article. I hadn’t known where the term “firebrands” came from, so I learned something. I do own a family primitive portrait, so that info was also of interest to me (although mine is far more primitive, having been painted by an itinerant painter, we belive). I like the way you write–clearly, concisely and with the fascinating backstories.

Thanks for making my Friday!

By: Martin Willis

Martin Willis — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:46:24 +0000

You are right about that. Joe didn’t take to everyone, but he saw that I had a sincere curiosity for learning. I was lucky to have known him and Portsmouth was lucky for the history he preserved.

I agree about librarians and also want to mention that there is still a lot of information in books that you will not find on the internet.

Thank you Johanna,

Martin

By: Johanna Johnson

Johanna Johnson — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:35:22 +0000

I really enjoyed this article, thank you for sharing it. Joseph P. Copley sounds like a wonderful person, you were richer for having known him. I also wanted to mention that librarians are still a good source of information and help and people should not be afraid to approach them for that help.