LeBaron Antiques Trading

LeBaron Antiques Trading is in the business of buying, selling, and brokering antiques and other decorative arts. It can handle large and small estates or collections, as well as individual pieces of merit.

Sarah Shinn Pratt, President of LeBaron, started her career in the decorative arts at Sotheby’s in 1981, after receiving a B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Mount Holyoke College, and an M.B.A. from U.C.L.A. Anderson Graduate School of Management. In 1986, after years of appraising and cataloguing decorative arts for Sotheby’s, she was appointed Vice President and Director of Sotheby’s Arcade Division. While continuing to catalogue and appraise decorative arts, Sarah oversaw approximately thirty sales a year of fine and decorative arts. Trained as an auctioneer by the venerable John Marion, she conducted most of the sales in the Arcade Division and many specialty sales over the next eight years. In 1993, Sarah became Director of Sotheby’s Appraisals, North America. In 1994, she resigned to start her own business, the LeBaron Art Advisory Service, based in New York City, and now called LeBaron Antiques Trading based in Woodbury, Connecticut. She has participated as an Expert on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow every year since the 2000 season.

LeBaron can work on an hourly fee and/or a commission.