Selling from the Comfort of Your Own Home

Avon, direct sales, Features, Gifts, home parties, Jafra, Jessica Kosinski, Mary Kay, party host, PartyLite, Sales, Sarah Coventry, Stan Home, The Pampered Chef, Touchstone Crystal, traveling salesmen, Tupperware

by Jessica Kosinski Today, we are all familiar with home parties such as The Pampered Chef, Touchstone Crystal, Jafra, PartyLite, and more. But who can forget those great vintage home ...

Clean as a Whistle

clean, clothesline, clothespin, Donald-Brian Johnson, Dryer, Features, iron, ironing, laundry, laundry basket, soap box, swizzle sticks, teacups, thimbles, wash tub, washboard, Washday, Washer, washer-dryer

The World of Washday Collectibles by Donald-Brian Johnson Some folks collect teacups. Or thimbles. Maybe even swizzle sticks. Tiny treasures that are compact, easy to display, and even easier to ...

Exploring Antique Humidors

Celebration, Cigarettes, cigars, Cuban Habanos, Deminican Republic Alcantaras, Features, Fine Cigars, humid, Humidors, Melody Amsel-Arieli, Mexican Gloria de Colons, pipe tobacco, rolled tobacco, smoking, storage box, Tobacco, tobacco leaves

By Melody Amsel-Arieli Fans of fine cigars, like Cuban Habanos, Dominican Republic Alcántaras, or Mexican Gloria de Colóns, may not smoke them right away. Instead, many prefer to save them ...

The Antique Tobacco Pipe

Ben Rapaport, Bronze, clay, ER Billings, Features, iron, meerschaum, Pipe smoking, pipes, Porcelain, Stone, Tobacco, tobacco pipe, wood

Invention • Function • Art By Ben Rapaport To open, tobacco was native to the Americas as early as 6,000 B.C. The uninterrupted consumption of tobacco in a variety of ...

The Library for the Children

Books, British Library, Children, Children's books, drawing, Features, Flickr, illustration, Library, reading, scans, The Huffington Post

Recently the British Library uploaded over one million images to Flickr from scans of books published in the 17th-19th centuries – including children’s books. The Huffington Post recently shared this ...

The Gentleman’s Library Through the Ages

Features

By James Dawson For this article, I thought it might be interesting to look at not only how a gentleman’s library had changed through the years, but perhaps how the ...

Toleware: A Dressed-up Poor Man's Silver

decorative, Features, Maxine Carter-Lome, painted metal, painted sheet metal, sheet metal, The Revolutionary War, tin art, tinsmith, Tole, toleware

by Maxine Carter-Lome The term tôle, derived from the French tôle peinte, meaning "painted sheet metal," refers to the decorative process of applying paint and lacquer to tin, initially as ...

UnEarthed: The Greatest Ancient Silver Hoard Ever Discovered

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Reproduced with permission from Art&Object.com Before there was Normandy in northern France, there was Gaul, under provincial rule in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 5th ...

Pewter: Is It Worth Anything?

Candlesticks, Collectible, Decorations, Features, First Quarter Finance, FirstQuarterFinance.Com, Flatware, kitchenware, lead, metal alloy, metalware, mugs, pewter, pots, saladware, scrap metal, tankards, tin, William Lipovsky

by William Lipovsky, First Quarter Finance, firstquarterfinance.com Pewter is a metal alloy of tin and lead, but it’s mostly composed of tin. Tin prices generally fluctuate between $7 and $11 ...

Collectibles of the Future

Antique Clocks, Comic Book, comics, Features, Figurine, Funko Pop, Gary R. Sullivan, Gemr.com, Lionel Trains, Mantle Clock, Marvel, Pop Culture, Sabretooth, Tiny House

by Gary R. Sullivan As influential as our formative years are on our psychological, emotional, and physical development, so too are they influential on what we choose to surround ourselves ...

Turning Antique and Collectible In the New Year 1919-2019

candy, Candy Store, Cufflinks, Cupcakes, Fanny Farmer, Features, General Electric, Hostess, Maxine Carter-Lome, Pop Up Toaster, Products, Root Beer, Rotary Phone, Toaster, Waters-Genters Company

By Maxine Carter-Lome One hundred years is the age when items officially become antiques, and sometimes more valuable as a collectible. As we ring in 2019, we look back on ...

10 Things You Didn't Know Were Collectible

Cards, Christmas, Directory, fabric, Features, Handkerchief, Hanky, Luggage, Luggage Labels, Menus, Paper Bag, Photo Albums, Richard Davies, scrapbook, Telephone, Telephone Book, Timetable

By Richard Davies, AbeBooks Photo albums The biggest growth area in the rare book world is vintage photo albums. Collectors and institutions want unique items, and personal photo albums fill ...