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December 2025: Future Trends & Collectibles

December 2025: Future Trends & Collectibles

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Business of Vintage

Holiday Marketing Checklist: Your Schedule for the Season of Sales

by Sloane Middleton Mann It’s the most wonderful time of the year—especially if you’re selling unique, one-of-a-kind, and easily giftable ...
A grouping of the time capsule box and its contents from 1891 around the cornerstone of the “New Bee Hive."

Through the Years: A Time Capsule is Opened

By Donald-Brian Johnson | All photos courtesy of Lisa Pektor A grouping of the time capsule box and its contents ...
Flawed Porcelain: The Dobree Family’s Frustration Errors could also sting. Take the English Dobree family, who in the 1750s ordered a porcelain arm-orial service decorated with their red shield and green mantle.

Curating the Unexpected: The Joy of Flawed Chinese Export Porcelain

by Shirley M. Mueller, M.D. “Look at me,” the large, not-to-be-missed porcelain cried out. And I did. It was not ...
Noel Gallagher’s Epiphone Les Paul used to record Oasis’ debut album Definitely Maybe.

From Collector to Curator: Turning Passion into Provenance

by Laurence Carpenter How a personal obsession became a professional pursuit—and what I learned about the stories objects can tell ...
November 2025: Personally Curated

November 2025: Personally Curated

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Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library

Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory, opening October 23 at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

BOSTON, MA – Around 1919, a young art student visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time, and ...
Image caption: Gisela McDaniel, Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021 Oil on panel, found object, sound, 45 x 32 x 6 in. © Gisela McDaniel. Image courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.

Final Weeks to see Gisela McDaniel’s First Solo Museum Exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art – On View through November 16, 2025

Gisela McDaniel, Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021 Oil on panel, found object, sound, 45 x 32 x 6 in. © Gisela ...
Restoring an Antique Apothecary Cabinet: From Candy Shop Display to Showpiece: a Step-by-Step Guide

Restoring an Antique Apothecary Cabinet: From Candy Shop Display to Showpiece: a Step-by-Step Guide

By Amy from 2ndlife.furniture.restoration on YouTube Before After Have you ever wondered how to restore antique furniture and bring it ...
/ Museums and Exhibits
Fabbrica di Capodimonte, Porcelain room of Maria Amalia of Saxony, 1757–59, Naples. Painted porcelain and stucco. Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Ministero della Cultura. Photo by Luciano Romano courtesy of Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Ministero della Cultura.

Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation Awarded to The Digital Porcelain Rooms Project

Media, PA — The Decorative Arts Trust is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will ...
$1,275 (Bids 63, Bidders 21) RARE Lrg Antique Hubley Cast Iron Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Parcel-Post Sidecar.

Hubley Cast Iron Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Parcel-Post Sidecar and a Raymond Loewy Colonial Model 700 Mephisto Bakelite Globe Tube Radio

by Jessica Kosinski $1,275 (Bids 63, Bidders 21) RARE Large Antique Hubley Cast Iron Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Parcel-Post Sidecar. Marked Harley ...
Benin artist, Benin Plaque, 1550–1650. Bronze; 20 1/4 in. x 14 1/8 in. Work loaned out by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria in Support of the International Friendship Being Fostered through this Exhibition.

Denver Art Museum and Nigerian Government Mark 50-Year Partnership in Repatriation and Cultural Collaboration

DENVER, CO – The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is proud to announce the successful continuation of its long-standing relationship with ...
Springfield Museums

The Springfield Museums Announces a Season of Spells and Spectacle: Witch Panic!, Spellbound, Moonlight Magic & Halloween at the Museums

SPRINGFIELD, MA — This fall, the Springfield Museums invites visitors to explore the intersection of history, folklore, science, and family ...
An Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen Egg chair, 1950s, offered by WYETH photo: 1st Dibs

Retro Meets Timeless: Inside the World of Mid-Century Modern

By Rob Wolfe of American Pickers Walk into any stylish home today, flip through Instagram, or browse a trendy furniture ...
Holt-Howard Pixieware condiment jar collection

Holt-Howard Pixieware: The Best Guide with Prices and Tips

By Yasmina Greco, Crazy4Me, Reprinted with permission Pixieware from Holt-Howard, Davar, Lefton, and Lipper & Mann There are remarkable individuals ...
Eero Saarinen designed the innovative and elegant Tulip seating in 1957

Why Mid-Century Modern Captured America

By Shirley M. Mueller, M.D. In the mid-1950s, the United States experienced the emergence of a design movement that would ...
The Halloween soundtrack on vinyl featuring the score created and performed by John Carpenter.

Horror Soundtracks and Four Color Comics

By Amanda Sheriff and J.C. Vaughn One of the things many horror fans enjoy in fright flicks is the spooky ...
Dinky’s number 132 Packard sported a driver figure wearing a suit.

Packard: Ask the Man Who Owns One

by Douglas R. Kelly During my senior year of high school, I worked in the mailroom of a non-profit sports ...
Civil War Currency

The Civil War Collector

by John Sexton Q: I inherited my great-great-grandfathers sword and his Civil War discharge and I’m interested in knowing what ...
ersonalized wedding plate with stylized doves, 1959. 12-1/4” d., $65-75.

Madison Modern: Century House Pottery

by Donald-Brian Johnson During the 1940s and ‘50s, most ceramics and pottery firms were based on the West Coast. Two ...
Jessica Rickman, Certified Personal Property Appraiser

A Steamboat’s Signature: The Nameboard of the Delta Queen

By Jessica Rickman, Certified Personal Property Appraiser Recently, I attended The Nashville Show, a prominent annual antiques show in Middle ...
Mid-Century Modern Furniture - Eames Chair

The Timeless Draw of Mid-Century Modern Furniture

by Jessica Kosinski The phrase "Mid-Century Modern" most often refers to goods produced in the middle of the 20th century ...
Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose

Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose

by Barbara Miller Beem If you could see me right now, you’d find me hunched over a laptop. I’m in ...
October 2025: Mid-Century Modern

October 2025: Mid-Century Modern

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