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More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation. Such was the case with the late Price Glover who made his livelihood crisscrossing the Atlantic as a pilot for Pan American Airlines. A native Virginian, Glover had nurtured his appreciation for the decorative arts while he was a student at William and Mary College, which is just a stone's throw from Colonial Williamsburg. He developed a passion for English pottery, pewter, and brass, which he was able to collect in quantity because he was such a frequent traveler to London, where he delighted in scouring the antiques shops in and around the city.
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In the early 1960s Glover was facing mandatory retirement age, and so he and an old friend, Dunbar Bostwick, decided to go into business together. In 1964 they purchased an interest in a building on East Fifty-seventh Street in New York City and opened an antiques shop, specializing in English decorative arts.