Bruce Newman, a New York antiques dealer and proprietor of his family’s business, Newel Galleries, originally founded as a prop house for theater and film productions, died on Feb. 9 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 94.

During his reign over the business, the building teemed with two centuries’ worth of treasures, most costing upward of five figures — carousel horses, Ruhlmann desks; benches from the Paris Metro; French Victorian dining chairs swirled in bronze trim, also Victorian wicker, French salon furniture, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Gothic revival, Biedermeier, Directoire, English Arts & Crafts, Renaissance and Medieval pieces, also the weird and the whimsical. Reportedly, Mr. Newman loved “the hunt.”

His customers? From Queen Elizabeth II and Jackie Kennedy to Barbara Streisand and Claus Von Bulow who, between trials for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny Von Bulow, sold Mr. Newman two 18th-century Venetian lacquered commodes from the couple’s Newport estate.