A passion for weather vanes and other antiques

In the foreword he wrote for the catalog of his 40-year personal collection of antiques that Pook & Pook Inc. will sell May 5, dealer James Grievo says a love of weather vanes dominated his passion from the start. Indeed, there are 11 in the sale beginning at 10 a.m. at the gallery in Downingtown, with half of them expected to bring five-figure prices. But the 400 lots to be offered are otherwise so diverse as to suggest that Grievo, who lives and works with his wife, Sheryl, in Stockton, N.J., is consumed by the thrill of acquisition for its own sake. “It was never about the money,” he said this week. “It was the love of finding great things.”