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LEGO®: Building a Company Brick by Brick
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “Our idea has been to create a toy that prepares the child for life – appealing to their imagination and developing the creative urge and joy ...
Free of Charge? Sports giveaways were worth the price
By Douglas R. Kelly If you were roaming the earth in the 1950s, 1960s, or 1970s, you most likely spent at least a little time rummaging through cereal boxes or ...
An Interview with Simeon Lipman: Appraiser, Collector, Entrepreneur
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Simeon Lipman is a lifelong pop culture, film, music, art, history, and sports enthusiast, who has been appraising collections, curating auctions and exhibitions, and coordinating ...
Dick Perez: The Diamond King of Baseball Artists
By Barry Blair, Sports Collectors Digest Most long-time readers of Sports Collectors Digest know the name Dick Perez as well as they know the names Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, and ...
An Archaeological Project Attempts to Find Clues About the Beginnings of One of America’s Oldest Black Churches, but Where Is The Story?
By The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation staff A version of this article first appeared in the winter 2021 issue of Trend and Tradition. Connie Matthews Harshaw was driving on Nassau Street ...
RESTORATION or RENOVATION WITH BRETT HOWARD
1. 1940s Mid-Century Modern Art Deco Waterfall Dresser With Mirror, restored with Howard Restor-A-Finish a. Pieces like this can be purchased at garage sales, thrift shops, and antique stores (Usually ...
An Interview with Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration
by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor On the left, is a delicate portrait of a beautiful young girl. She may look a bit on the yellow side – what some may ...
White House Relics and the Stories They Tell
By Wayne Smith Collect the White House … really? Can you even do that? That’s a phrase, or a variation of one, I have heard over many years. It turns ...
A Spiritual Reunion: The Recovery and Return of Edith Wharton’s Personal Library to The Mount
By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Edith Wharton’s Library at The Mount by Eric Limon Photography A December 15, 2005, article in The New York Times announced the news that Edith Wharton’s ...
Tales from the Closet: Fashionable Stories of Ten Remarkable 18th-20th Century Women
by Maxine Carter-Lome Both the best and rare examples of clothing, accessories, and textiles that have survived the proverbial “wear and tear” of history populate museum and private collections around the ...
Wool in America and the Revolution of the Mill Girls
by Judy Gonyeau,managing editor The English immigrants who came ashore in the 1600s brought their acumen with them, including a taste for British goods when it came to the household ...
Lace Fabric
by Melody Amsel-Arieli Faded doilies and lacy gloves may evoke visions of bygone afternoon teas in overstuffed parlors. Yet these openwork textiles were likely inspired by highly embroidered Italian Renaissance ...
