Guess What? June 2001
Guess What Article for June 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” This month we’re giving you a “Guess What” with a view. In fact two views – bird’s eye and worm’s eye. Patented Sept. 12, 1876, this hand-held or…
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Hearth to Hearth: Hasty Pudding & the Pudding Stick
Hearth to Hearth: Hasty Pudding & the Pudding Stick – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – June 2001 The most plebian of kitchen tools are sometimes the hardest to identify. The pudding stick, or mush stick, is a great example of the…
Guess What? May 2001
Guess What Article for May 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” We’ve got something slightly smaller to challenge you with this month. It can actually be held in the palm of your hand, is nickel on brass and has…
Hearth to Hearth: The Stove
Hearth to Hearth: The Stove – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2001 Today the word stove conjures up the large blocky industrially-made appliance that sits in the kitchen and produces heat fairly automatically. It cooks and bakes with an increasingly…
Vintage Fashion Buzz
Vintage Fashion Buzz – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2001 By Debbie Regan Cleveland As the antiques business marches along in the new millennium, vintage fashion is making strides and blowing horns in the marketplace, museum world,…
Guess What? April 2001
Guess What Article for April 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” This month we’re taking the time machine back to the 18th century and the land of forges and blacksmiths. We have a pair of twin forged structures standing…
Hearth to Hearth: Aren’t We Lucky To Be Living Now!
Hearth to Hearth: Aren’t We Lucky To Be Living Now! – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2001 Imagine living in a time when all our electronic kitchen aids were beyond the range of imagination, when gas and…
Venetian Glass
Venetian Glass – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2001 by Sheldon Barr The Gardner & Barr Venetian Glass Gallery opened in 1992. Initially we sold Venetian glass from the 1920s — wine goblets and generic decorative objects.…
Guess What? March 2001
Guess What Article for March 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” Before or after, open or closed — the photos of this month’s “Guess What” are extremely sharp in detail. Working the handles like a pliers enabled the inner…
Hearth to Hearth: Frontispieces of Old Cookbooks
Hearth to Hearth: Frontispieces of Old Cookbooks – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – March 2001 At the beginning of many a cook book is a frontispiece, an illustration that tells us something about the culinary aspirations of its author. No matter…