Gary Hendershott

I began collecting when I was just 11 years old and by the time I was 16, was traveling around the country buying up family correspondences, relics and estates which led me to a combination of buying both Art and History. I have been fortunate to have owned many of the most important rarities to have come on the market for several decades. My father was a Seabee in WWII and came home after the war; got a GI loan and began a construction company that prospered during the Eisenhower years when America moved from the Farm and Main Street USA to suburbs and shopping centers. Building those suburbs and shopping centers provided my source of income to collect as I went to work on construction jobs when I was a teenager. Many of those carpenters and job superintendents were also veterans of the war and they taught me not only a strong work ethic but the value of a honest days work. I flew out on my 1st Big deal when I was 16.