The Hunt Club

Freelance art broker Julie Harelson, 34, buys 19th and early 20th century jewelry. “I’d like to find late 19th century French-cut garnet jewelry. The craftsmanship is incredible: They don’t cut them like that any longer.”

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Marc Friedland, 39, president and creative director of Creative Intelligence, which designs high-end party invitations, is passionate about old pen nibs and inkwells. “I’m after nibs with unusual shapes and forms, such as the ‘pointing finger’ that is fashioned after a human hand, and inkwells made of unusual materials, such as the camel bone one I found from Morocco.”

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Jenny Fritz, a 25-year-old TV literary agent with ICM, loves 19th and early 20th century flasks. “I’m looking for decorative flasks with unique shapes: They’re the hardest to find. I still recall an Art Nouveau etched-glass flask with a silver top I once saw in Paris. It was clearly a woman’s flask--very feminine and beautiful.”

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Dean Pollack, 32-year-old head of the independent film company Show & Tell Productions, collects copper pennies from the years 1793 to 1814 that are known as U.S. Large Cents. “I’m looking for a Sheldon 198, a very rare variety of 1800 Large Cents--there are only 10 to 15 known to exist.”

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Rachel Pulido Oakley, 32, a writer for the TV comedy “The Downtowners,” scheduled for fall, collects 18th and 19th century French and English textiles and needlework. “There are so many English and French needleworks. I would like to find a Spanish Colonial needlework--something closer to home and my own Latina heritage.”

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Michael Parks, a 33-year-old lawyer with Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, is taken by early 19th century exploration and travel books. “I would really love to find ‘Sketches of Western Adventure’ from 1832 by John McClung. It’s a primary source book about settler-Indian relations in the Northwest.”