✦A Private Sourcing House✦

Chase— VESPER —

We hunt the rare and the remembered, for the collector who has searched everywhere but here.

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The Founding

Four Generations
of the Eye

There is a particular hour my grandmothers loved best — the evening, when the day's hunt was done and the laughter began. Maxine Coleman and her daughter Sandra were night owls, two women who opened an antique shop together in 1950s Kentucky and spent their lives chasing the perfect piece across the countryside — auction houses, abandoned homes, a forgotten table in someone's yard. They never met a stranger; they could charm their way into any estate, any sale, any locked-away collection, and they carried a refined eye that could find the one true thing in a room full of imitations.

I spent my summers at their sides, learning that eye — the gift for telling the genuine from the imitation, the treasure from the clutter, in a single glance. It is not a skill you can buy. It is one you inherit, slowly, over years and evenings of laughter.

On my father's side was Martha Chase, Martin by birth — the most elegant woman anyone ever knew. From a teenage start at Sears Roebuck she built nearly ninety years of fashion and flair, kept her own dress shop, raised Kentucky racehorses, and she embodied kindness, humility, and class. She gave this house its grace, and its name.

Vesper — the evening, the evening star, the quiet prayer of gratitude at day's end.

That is what this house is. Gratitude for four generations of women who taught me to hunt, and a promise to carry their art into the hours and the generations still ahead. I founded my own store in their footsteps; now I build Chase Vesper with my husband and our two children, so the eye and the joy pass forward into the next generation, and the next. We hunt, still, the way they taught us — patiently, gladly, into the evening — for the rarest and most beautiful things. We would be honored to hunt for yours.

How We Work

The Hunt, On Your Behalf

I

The Inquiry

Everything begins with a conversation. You tell us what you collect — the obsession, the grail, the piece you've described to dealers for years and never found. We listen the way our grandmothers listened to a room full of antiques: for the one true thing.

II

The Brief

We build a private brief around you — your niche, your taste, the makers and eras and qualities you prize, your firm no-gos, and your budget. This is the map for the hunt, and it stays yours alone.

III

The Hunt

Then we do what our family has done for four generations. We scour estates, auctions, and private collections — the quiet corners no algorithm can reach — and authenticate with an eye trained across decades. We do not present you with everything; we present you with the right thing.

IV

The Acquisition

When we find it, you see it first: photographed, documented, its provenance and condition laid bare, its price clear. You decide. We handle acquisition, logistics, and discreet delivery. The thrill is yours; the work is ours.

V

The Relationship

Most of our clients stay with us. The hunt is never truly over — there is always a next piece — and the longer we work together, the sharper our eye becomes for exactly what moves you.

The Circle

Deliberately Few

Chase Vesper is not a marketplace. We take on a small, capped circle of collectors and serve each one deeply — the scarcity is the point. To be among them is to have four generations of the eye hunting quietly on your behalf.

Membership is by introduction and inquiry.

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Tell Us What You Seek

We keep the circle small. We respond personally to each inquiry.