Salt and pepper shakers are inexpensive collectibles
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Looking for an inexpensive, amusing collection for a small display area in your house? Or perhaps an item to encourage your children to be collectors and go to ... Continue Reading →
Phrenology head serves as decoration
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Medicine has come a long way since the early 1800s, when phrenology was an accepted theory of diagnosis. It was said that each bump on your head covered a part ... Continue Reading →
What’s in a name?
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It sometimes is difficult to know the proper name for a piece of antique furniture. Names can change. A commode can be a chest of drawers; a cabinet like a sideboard; ... Continue Reading →
Lincoln carving made in late 1800s
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President Abraham Lincoln has been memorialized in many ways since his death in 1865, but there are things that few people remember today.
The president and ... Continue Reading →
Clobbered porcelain may have added value
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The English word “clobbered” has been used since at least the 1600s, but its meaning has changed. It still means beaten up, badly injured or damaged. But the ... Continue Reading →
Slat-back chairs from Canada look different
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Ever see an old chair that seems different – the parts are a little more curved, the stretchers between the legs have more shape and the seat seems a little ... Continue Reading →
‘Antique’ blown glassware may be a copy
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It is very difficult to identify early blown glassware from the 18th century because talented modern glass blowers can make good copies in the earlier styles and ... Continue Reading →
Children like scooter toys
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Children have always liked toys that can move and make noise and look like something from the adult world. Victor Bonnet was a French toymaker working after 1919 ... Continue Reading →
American Windsor chairs first made around 1730
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The Windsor chair was introduced in England in the late 17th century, and it was about 50 years later, around 1730, that the first American Windsor chairs were ... Continue Reading →
Mermaid lamp holds two light fixtures
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Mermaids and mermen have been “seen” and pictured since the Babylonian era. In past centuries, Greece, Japan, Ireland, Russia and Scotland have believed in local ... Continue Reading →
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