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 ...
