Bob Cahn Guess What Article for August 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” When an item has a key or a cylinder lock like this month’s “Guess What,” it should send a message that includes the words “restricting,” “restraining,”…
Hearth to Hearth: Ice Cream – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – August 2001 Ice cream is everywhere in the warm weather, and often in the cold. It is a treat, especially when home made, and always has been. Think of pre-industrial…
Guess What Article for July 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” There are two subjects this column seriously tries to avoid: religion and politics. But this month’s “Guess What” slightly deviates from this self-imposed policy, since we are presenting…
Hearth to Hearth: Sallets – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – July 2001 One often hears that our ancestors did not eat salads. The remark is all-too often made with a certain amount of scorn and some kind of pity for those…
The Corning Museum at 50: Preserving 3,500 years of sand, ash, lime and fire – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – July 2001 by Adam Halterman They make glass. By day and night, the fires burn on…and bid the sand…
Guess What Article for June 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” This month we’re giving you a “Guess What” with a view. In fact two views – bird’s eye and worm’s eye. Patented Sept. 12, 1876, this hand-held or…
Hearth to Hearth: Hasty Pudding & the Pudding Stick – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – June 2001 The most plebian of kitchen tools are sometimes the hardest to identify. The pudding stick, or mush stick, is a great example of the…
Guess What Article for May 2001 By Bob Cahn, “The Primitive Man” We’ve got something slightly smaller to challenge you with this month. It can actually be held in the palm of your hand, is nickel on brass and has…
Hearth to Hearth: The Stove – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2001 Today the word stove conjures up the large blocky industrially-made appliance that sits in the kitchen and produces heat fairly automatically. It cooks and bakes with an increasingly…
Vintage Fashion Buzz – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2001 By Debbie Regan Cleveland As the antiques business marches along in the new millennium, vintage fashion is making strides and blowing horns in the marketplace, museum world,…
