Features
Curated articles that explore the rich intersections of history, craftsmanship, and collecting culture. These long-form pieces are your gateway to learning something new, seeing the familiar in a fresh light, and connecting with the past meaningfully.
What, If Anything, Is Your Old Technology Worth?
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Consumers born after 1980 have no memory of a world without cellphones, home computers, or personal ...
Technological Art: The New Design Element
By Judy Weaver Gonyeau, managing editor Patents, blueprints, scientific diagrams, and curious drawings reveal inventions and discoveries coming into its ...
Riding the Technology Wave: My Front-Row Seat to the Rise of Cellular
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Fifty years ago this past April 3, 2023, Motorola engineer Martin (Marty) Cooper placed a phone ...
Identifying Glass In The Age of The Internet
By Glass Specialist Peter Wade It’s a beautiful, sunny day and you decide to go out for a ride and ...
The Tiffany Girls: Under the Glass Ceiling
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Glassmaking has historically been a man’s trade. This can be attributed to the ability of boys ...
Artist Josh Simpson Configuring Glass
An Interview by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Our Earth, which seems so limitless, is really only a tiny little blue ...
Paul R. Williams: Designer for Iconic Hollywood
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Imagine being the only black child in your school who is striving to enter the ...
Interviewing Angela Lansbury
By Donald-Brian Johnson In 1984, on her way to the West Coast to begin filming the first season of the ...
Movie Posters: Collecting Trends and the Current Market
By Amanda Sheriff, Gemstone Publishing Collecting movie posters is plain and simply a fun hobby that expresses the love for ...
Film Memorabilia: The Reel Thing
By Douglas R. Kelly The original props. The one-sheet posters. The lobby cards. The sculptures and statues and autographed photos ...
Edith Head: Designing A Hollywood Legend
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “Accentuate the positive and camouflage the rest,” … words legendary designer Edith Head lived by. At ...
What Styles of Glass Are You Passionate About?
A walk-through of American glass styles and inspiration with Peter Wade In the late 1800s, Canary glass was “all the ...
Chair Styles: Take a Seat … or Two … or Three …
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Everyone has their favorite chair, whether it is an ergonomic masterpiece or an overstuffed recliner ...
Jeans: The Iconic American Style
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher From 19th century miners and railroad workers to the cowboys of the Old West, hippies, rock ...
Madame Alexander: Alexander Doll Company, Inc.: 100 Years of Doll Play
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor One-hundred years ago, Bertha Alexander turned the porcelain doll industry on its head when she ...
Yankee Stadium: East 161st and River Avenue – The home of Legends
By Douglas R. Kelly Pittsburgh Pirates fans have been through it. So have Baltimore Orioles fans and Detroit Tigers fans ...
King Tut: 100 Years of Discovery
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher One Hundred years ago this coming February, British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter entered an undiscovered ...
Non-sports cards: A Tale of Two Collections at Auction
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher, in an exclusive interview with Alex Winter of Hake’s Auctions In November, Hake’s Auctions held a ...
Disney: 100 Years of Wonder
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher The Walt Disney Company has a big birthday to celebrate in 2023 and they will be ...
Here Comes Santa Claus!
By Donald-Brian Johnson “Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane!” – Gene Autry & ...
Ultimate Christmas Kitsch: Blow Molds
By Carrie Polales Sansing They are known by various names. Light-ups, lawn art, plastic kitsch, illuminated figures, or simply blow ...
You’ve Got Moxie: America’s Longest-Lasting Soft Drink
by Judy Weaver-Gonyeau, managing editor Courage. Pluck. Perseverance. … Moxie. A little bit sweet, a little bit bitter. What some ...
The Name of the Game: Frisbee or Frisbie, it’s an American Cultural Icon
By Douglas R. Kelly There are few product names in the games and sporting goods industries that can match “Frisbee” ...
Stuckey’s: A Sweet Roadside Oasis
by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “You’ve got to be honest with the public. And you’ve got to work. Of course, good ...
Urns: Their History and Collectibility
by Judy Weaver Gonyeau, managing editor Cremation as a form of burial goes back to the Neolithic or Stone Age, ...
