The best way to judge the age of a piece of furniture is to study how it is constructed. Part of this information is technical, but most of it can be used by any antiques buyer out for a day’s…
The word “ephemera” is the plural form of the Greek word that means something that lasts through a single day, such as a winged insect. Today the word refers to something minor, usually paper, that was made to be used…
Prints, photographs, and all sorts of small paper ephemera, including baseball cards, postcards, and labels, became important to collectors in the twentieth century. Printed pictures, often drawings, were published to illustrate news stories in the nineteenth century. Lithographs, woodblocks, even…
The twentieth century saw astounding changes in the American home and American food. The nineteenth-century housewife killed the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned, cut, seasoned, and cooked the chicken on an open flame. By 1990 she went to a…
Lamps, Christmas Cards, Toy Locomotives, Bottle Sale, Living With Your Antiques - Christmas Trees, Clocks, Errors in Decorative Antiques, English Pottery and Porcelain Marks, Christmas Commemoratives, President Andrew Jackson Impeachment Ticket Reproductions, Collector's Gallery, French Empire Cradle, Greek and English…