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Perfume: Egypt to the Modern Vanity Table

Perfume: Egypt to the Modern Vanity Table
by Deborah Washington International Perfume Bottle Association Perfume - The origins of the "juice." What exactly is perfume? How does it differ from fragrance? The academic/dictionary definition states that the ...

Keeping Time

Keeping Time
"Clockmakers and Collectors" at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library by Hilary Anderson Stelling Director of Exhibitions and Audience Development Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library A Generous Legacy ...

Time to Start Livin': Kitsch Clocks of the Mid-20th Century

Time to Start Livin': Kitsch Clocks of the Mid-20th Century
By Donald-Brian Johnson Clocks. We rely on them to bring just a bit of order into our hectic modern lives. They keep things running like . . . well ...

Comic Timing

Comic Timing
by J.C. Vaughn After a period in which a number of character watches enjoyed values that we might call "overly robust," the market has stabilized and it seems that we're ...

State of the Clock Market

State of the Clock Market
Fontaine's Auction Gallery Pittsfield, Mass. By John Fontaine It sounds like a cliche to say quality items sell for premium prices, but in the world of vintage and antique clocks ...

Fred Dennett and The Lakeside Craft Shops

Fred Dennett and The Lakeside Craft Shops
An Entrepreneur Navigates the Arts and Crafts Movement by Peter A. Copeland The Arts and Crafts movement - roughly the period from 1895 to 1915 - had its origins in ...

Collecting Van Briggle Art Pottery

Collecting Van Briggle Art Pottery
by Bill Thornbrook It is a longstanding tradition for travelers from the Northeast to vacation in places with abundant sunshine, magnificent scenery and, let's not forget, unique souvenirs to bring ...

Return to Craftsman Farms: Gustav Stickley in the Twenty-First Century

Return to Craftsman Farms: Gustav Stickley in the Twenty-First Century
By Erica Lome The year 1916 marked the final issue of Gustav Stickley's influential periodical The Craftsman, which introduced American audiences to the British-derived Arts and Crafts movement. Nearly a ...

The Arts & Crafts Auction Market Today

The Arts & Crafts Auction Market Today
by Jerry Cohen The Arts & Crafts market, like any collectible market, has buyers at low, middle, and upper price ranges. At the peak of interest during the second half ...

Thimble Collecting: A Small Passion

Thimble Collecting: A Small Passion
By Bridget McConnel It is useful to have some idea of the history and the earliest known examples of needles, awls, pushers and thimbles to understand why people collect thimbles ...

A Fondness for Frippery: Collecting Ribbon Work

A Fondness for Frippery: Collecting Ribbon Work
by Judy Nixon Kent For a collector of ribbon work, nothing is more beguiling than a bevy of beautiful ribbons skillfully twisted and sewn into a garden of glorious flowers ...

A Brief History of the Sewing Machine

A Brief History of the Sewing Machine
By Alex Askaroff Alex Askaroff is the enthusiastic founder of sewalot.com, a wildly popular website for all things sewing-machine related and officially named the number one antique sewing machine website ...