Antique Advertising at Auction: When Color Became King

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By Michael Eckles In the last ten years, antique advertising has become a very popular lot in auction arenas around the country. The category is made up mostly of posters ...

The Emergence of Toys at Auction

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by Dick Friz Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, defined "toy" as a "petty commodity, a trifle; a thing of no value, a plaything or bauble." Today, the good ...

Deal Me In

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Collectible Playing Card Art Story & Photos by Donald-Brian Johnson Mary Nastase has over five thousand playing cards. That's right, five thousand. And for the most part, they're all different ...

Top Collectible Toys By Decade

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by Eric Bradley The toy business and the toy collecting hobby are surviving in the midst of genre-busting trends. The arrival of the internet made it cheaper and easier for ...

Cooking With Glass

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The Rise of Kitchen Glass for Cooking By Rosemary Trietsch The term "Depression Era Glassware" usually evokes images of beautiful table settings in a rainbow of colors. But what very ...

The Nutmeg Grater: A Kitchen Collectible, And So Much More

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Story and Photos by J. E. Klopfer The well known antiques writer Mary Earl Gould was the first to introduce mechanical nutmeg graters to modern collectors, when her 1958 book ...

Defining Your Space: Kitchen Storage

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by Franceen Munson The kitchen, perhaps more than any room in a house conjures up more memories and associations than any other, with its smells of favorite foods, images of ...

The State of the Rock and Roll Memorabilia Market

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by Megan Mahn Miller If the art auction market is a civilized dinner party, where beautiful works of art trade hands, the rock and roll memorabilia auction market is a ...

A Collector’s Take on Music Posters

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by Gary Sohmers In the beginning, there was art. Then music, performance, and finally, advertising. So begins the growth of the cultural arts, a path towards enlightenment, amusement, and profitability ...

Finding Your Inner Music Collector and Investor

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Lessons Learned from The King by Stephen Shutts, the "Indiana Jones" of Memorabilia We have been in the era quite some time now, where the average rock & roll fans ...

Up to Snuff

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Collecting Antique Snuff Boxes Story and Photos by Donald-Brian Johnson Hmmmm... Just what are those elaborate little boxes intended for, anyway? Trinkets? Change? Cufflinks and earrings? Breath mints? The answer: ...

In the Eye of the Beholder

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The Vanity Table, Then and Now by Erica Lome Almost every home has a space for "putting on one's face." Perhaps without our conscious knowledge, dressing tables have made this ...

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