Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium A U.S. one-cent stamp commemorating the Pan American Exposition of 1901 with […]
Author Archives: Maxine Carter-Lome
With the start of summer the antiques trade traditionally moves business outdoors. Fields, fairgrounds, and outdoor venues, dormant through the winter months, and some even longer due to pandemic restrictions […]
By Paul Norton Trunks and travel articles tell a story of adventure and intrigue. The impulse to travel—into town or overseas—required bringing along one’s necessities. As 18th and 19th […]
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor In 1889, the Industrial Revolution was up and running thanks to the practice of mechanical engineering and manufacturing. Just picture metal, grease, gears, […]
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher On December 17, 1892, American businessman and socialite Arthur Baldwin Turnure published the inaugural issue of Vogue, a weekly high-society journal whose editorial mission was […]
by Jessica Kosinski Have you ever heard of Buster Brown? If so, you are not the only one. For well over a century, Buster Brown has been part of the […]
Every year on the first Monday in May, everybody who’s anybody in the world of fashion and celebrity attends or watches on TV the famed Met Gala at the Metropolitan […]
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium A pair of carved wood ducks by Charles “Shang” Wheeler (1867-1956) […]
Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall All prices include the buyer’s premium A Baird Chicago-era Coca-Cola advertising store clock sold for $17,010 at a […]
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “On January 10, 1910, a teenager from Nebraska stepped off a train in Kansas City, MO, with little more than big dreams and two shoeboxes […]