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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
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 ...
Thirty-five Years of White House Christmas History
By The White House Historical Association In 1981, the White House Historical Association created the first Official White House Christmas Ornament, establishing a tradition that honors the presidents of the ...
To Entertain Polite Company: Stylish Silver for the Tabletop
Janine E. Skerry, Curator of Metals The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Benjamin Franklin, despite his "Poor Richard" persona, liked to shop. Letters written from London to his wife Deborah in Philadelphia ...
The Gilded Table at the Campbell House
By Suzanne Corbett When Robert and Virginia Campbell's last surviving child, Hazlett Campbell, died at the age of eighty in 1938, many thought the Campbell's palatial old townhouse that graced ...
Come Fill The Cup: Christmas Bone China
Christmas bone china Story & Photos by Donald-Brian Johnson Most of the year, it's kept safely tucked away in drawers, or on display behind the locked glass doors of a ...
Collecting Political Memorabilia
by Raymond M. Farina Collecting memorabilia from America's past political campaigns and elections can be traced to the first inauguration of George Washington and the several varieties of then expensively ...
Inside The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Movie Posters
by Amanda Sheriff What makes a movie poster attractive? In The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Movie Posters, we attempt to answer that question. We explore the factors that appeal to ...
Collecting the Presidents
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The Iconic Pepperbox Revolving Pistol
By Charles Worman If one were to prepare a short list of those distinctly American firearms of pre-1900 vintage which have iconic status, you would almost certainly find the Pennsylvania ...
American Bird Decoys
By Ted Harmon The use of decoys to lure waterfowl to the hunter is purely an American invention. Decoys were tools made to lure wildfowl within range of Native Americans ...
The Kentucky Rifle – America's Own Art Form
By Ronald G. Gabel Why do people collect "Kentucky" rifles? Why are they considered America's rifle? How were they used? Why are they called "Kentucky" rifles? Why are they historically ...
