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In 1978, inspired by the first Decorative Arts Trust meeting, which was held in New Harmony, Indiana, and included as speakers Wendell Garrett, Berry B. Tracy (1933--1984), Joe Kindig III, and others, a Saint Louis couple purchased a simple New England Federal period card table and began a collection of early Americana. From that modest beginning, they have brought together an assemblage of significant examples of American furniture, silver, needlework, and ceramics, many of which were included in the exhibition Useful Beauty: Early American Decorative Arts from St. Louis Collections, held at the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1999. (1) In recent years the couple decided to ...