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Playing Games in the Great Outdoors
A Sampling Jacks Jacks, also called jackstones, fivestones, or dibs, is one of the oldest and most widespread games in the world. Children in ancient Egypt played a version of ...
The Art of the Game
The Colorful History of McLoughlin Bros. by Maxine Carter-Lome While you might not recognize the name McLoughlin Brothers, or the names of their books and games for that matter, chances ...
The Market for Toys
An interview with Tom Miano How things look in the Toy Market often depends upon who you ask; their chosen areas of expertise; the market with regard to their age, ...
Game Boards: The Game is Up
by Melody Amsel-Arieli Through the ages, nearly all cultures have developed pre-marked surfaces used for playing games. Players, drawing on skill, strategy or luck while following pre-determined rules, move game ...
Civil War Surgical Tools
by Melody Amsel-Arieli The Civil War, which left over 600,000 dead, was the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. Initially, surgeons tended the injured at the front, ...
Medical Art: A Spectacle on Display
by Judy Gonyeau “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” - William Shakespeare, As You Like It. At no other time and place was ...
Bloodletting Instruments and Methods
by Douglas Arbittier, MD, MBA Antique bloodletting or Phlebotomy instruments have long been a collectible within the medical field that crosses over with collections prized by tattoo artists, civil war ...
The Rise of Swedish Modernism
by Peter Wade Throughout the history of glassmaking, certain common designs and patterns have emerged. The glass we collect today often originated from an individual artist’s vision. The idea was ...
Higgins: A Glass Act
Fused Glass from the Fabulous ‘50s Text by Donald-Brian Johnson; Photos by Leslie Pina Stardust, Barbaric Jewels, Arabesque, Mandarin. The titles glow with color and imagination. The glass objects they ...
19th Century Glass in a 21st Century Market
By Jeffrey S. Evans "Nobody wants glass anymore” is one of the most common off-the-cuff remarks that we hear today. In fact, collectors do still want glass, just not the ...
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
America’s Catalog (1888-2010) By Ian Moody The Sears catalog - once a four-pound, 1,400 page colossus featuring a staggering 100,000 items - has been tossed into the dustbin of history, ...
The Shopper’s Friend: S&H Green Stamps
By Judy Gonyeau It is hard to shop anywhere that does not have some form of a rewards program in place. Even in the earliest times, shopkeepers looked for ways ...
