My Daughters Blue Cabinet, The Business of Doing Business in Antiques – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – March 2002 In 1986, I purchased a child’s size cupboard in old blue paint. The cupboard was just the right size…
Hearth to Hearth: Cottolene (Lard) – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2002 The disappearance of lard from our diets has been a major puzzle for me. For centuries of food history, lard has been considered as unexcelled for deep frying…
A Royal Menagerie: A Palace Full of Meissen Porcelain Animals – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2002 Augustus the Strong, king of Poland (1670-1733) had long been a collector of Japanese and Chinese porcelain, and it was…
Home Sweet Home – American Folk Art Museum – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2002 Two school diplomas and a university degree were my reward for serving to seventeen years in the trenches of formal education. Names,…
Bob Cahn Guess What Article for January 2002 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” This month’s “Guess What” looks as if it came out of a box of Cracker Jacks. Diminutive, delicate – it denotes a miniaturization of Victorian form…
Hearth to Hearth: Christmas Pudding – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2002 In the great celebratory feast, a highlight of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Mrs. Cratchit’s Christmas Plum Pudding is described as only Dickens could do it: “Hallo! A great…
Bob Cahn Guess What Article for December 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” Simple but strange, or transposed to “Simply Strange” — either way describes this month’s “Guess What.” Obviously hand-held, this cast iron multiple opening device served a…
Hearth to Hearth: Childrens Cookbooks – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – December 2001 The world of the kitchen was surely one that included children from the earliest times, as mothers initiated their daughters into the culinary arts and instructed them on…
English Christmas Cards – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – December 2001 By Carol Woodbury The avant garde English magazine, The Studio, is a wonderful place to glimpse the artistic atmosphere of the late 19th – early 20th centuries.…
Hearth to Hearth: The Fireless Cooker – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – November 2001 The fireless cooker was a strange beast. Even its name seemed to be a contradiction in terms. It cooked without fire and provided an effortless hot…
