Talk of the Trade
In the Maker’s Hands: Connecting objects with their makers enhance our understanding of the antiques we value
At the heart of the items that we collect and admire are the stories behind their creation, craft, and use. While an object might bear the mark or label of ...
“Collecting Music in the Virtual Age.” Now that music is online and digital-based, what is left to collect?
The ways we listen to music are always changing, but the people who feel the need to amass as much of it as possible never go away. Yet, with so ...
The Funny Side of Business: From vaudeville and slapstick comedy to standup, political satire, cartoons, sketch comedy, sitcoms, and inside jokes, comedy as an art form and business has been around since funny found a receptive, paying audience.
Every decade and generation are defined, in part, by the humor embraced by the zeitgeist of the times and the medium of the art form, especially in the early decades ...
The Parlor: An Island of Formality. You entered it only rarely, and you weren’t meant to be comfortable there. But every house had to have one, no matter how high the cost.
No room in the American home in the nineteenth century was more tenderly cared for, fussed over, or jealously protected than the parlor, especially during the Victorian era. It was ...
The 100 Year Perspective
On January 1, 1921, California beat Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl. In that same week, the country’s first religious service radio broadcast aired on KDKA-Pittsburgh, Turkey made peace ...
“Militaria Findings”: Conflict and combat are as old as the story of man. The result is centuries of military artifacts dating back to antiquity that tell the history and bear the scars of the hard-fought battles of their time.
Conflict and combat are as old as the story of man. To engage, man needed weapons to attack, and armor in various forms to protect himself. The result is centuries ...
Facebook Live: If you are a Facebook follower then you know it’s getting a lot noisier on your feed these days. The change has changed me as a user and social media follower.
If you are a Facebook follower then you know it's getting a lot noisier on your feed these days. Pre-recorded videos with audio and live broadcasting have replaced traditional image ...
The Show Must Go On(line)!
With the slow, and in some states unpredictable, return of antique shows and flea markets around the country, more and more show promoters are looking for alternative ways to host ...
An Education in Needle Work
In eighteenth-century America, a girl was expected to grow up, get married, have children, and take care of a home. Because of the limits of her sphere, a girl received ...
Collecting Natural History
Growing up in New York City, one of my favorite places to visit on cold and rainy days when you could not play in the Park was the American Museum ...
To our readers
With so much change and uncertainty these past few weeks we are happy to finally be able to publish an issue for you even if it is not in our ...
Who’s Buying Glass These Days?
Every year when we start work on our Annual Glass Issue we challenge ourselves to find topics, makers, and glass types not previously explored in past issues. What we have ...
Publisher's Corner March 2020
By Maxine Carter-Lome [divider align="center"] Celebrating 20 Years of Living and Loving Antiques [divider align="center"] This issue marks the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Antiques & Collectibles; two decades ...
February 2020 Issue: A Solute to Americana
By Maxine Carter-Lome The best definition of Americana that I have come across is, “material ephemera of the distant American past.” Many kinds of cultural artifacts fall within the definition ...
January 2020 Issue: Defining Vintage
The word “vintage” is ascribed to items in the range of at least 20, but more appropriately 50 years old or older. Unlike “antiques”—definitively defined at 100 years old or ...
Publisher’s Corner: December 2019
Traditions and Discoveries by Maxine Carter-Lome As we close out our 2019 editorial calendar with this December issue and head into a new year, I celebrate my fifth anniversary as ...
Publisher’s Corner: November 2019
Living in a Miniature World by Maxine Carter-Lome Recently I read Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.’s book Empty Mansions (Ballantine Books, 2013), the amazing story of William A ...
Publisher’s Corner: October 2019
Enthusiastic About Ephemera by Maxine Carter-Lome Merriam-Webster defines ephemera as “something of no lasting significance - paper items (such as posters, broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant to be ...
Publisher’s Corner: September 2019
Visiting the Hudson River Valley by Maxine Carter-Lome If you’ve ever visited or spent time in the Hudson River Valley of New York State, than you know something about the ...
Publisher’s Corner: August 2019
Growing Up Watching the General Store by Maxine Carter-Lome For those of us who grew up in a city or were born after 1930, chances are our only real association ...
Publisher’s Corner: July 2019
Decorative Collectibles by Maxine Carter-Lome Throughout modern history, a room or space has been set aside for the Master of the House to call his own - a place where ...
Publisher’s Corner: June 2019
Collecting Fun & Games by Maxine Carter-Lome Every child grows up with a favorite game or toy that carries with it precious memories of bygone days and friends from the ...
Publisher’s Corner: May 2019
Inside the Doctor’s Bag By Maxine Carter Lome For those of us old enough to remember when doctors made house calls, nothing is more iconic than the leather Doctor’s Bag, ...
Publisher’s Corner: April 2019
The Allure of Glass 18 Years Later by Maxine Carter-Lome For 18 years the Journal of Antiques & Collectibles has published an annual April Glass Issue. Although we pride ourselves ...
Publishers Corner: March 2019
The Happy Homemaker by Maxine Carter-Lome The term “Happy Homemaker” is a 1950s throwback to a time when housewives took their role and job as wife and mother seriously and, ...
