Dear Lee, Winners and losers in the stock market are constantly in the news and we thought perhaps collectors should analyze their buys, too. If we list our purchases in stock market terms, would we be savvy investors or losers?…
ADVERTISING Santa Claus, straw-filled body, from Wrigley's Gum premium catalog, c.1930, 25 in., $220 Orange Crush sign, gardener in straw hat, bottle, cardboard, 1940s, 36 x 24 in., $495 Armour's Star Ham & Bacon sign, boy selling ham to lady,…
Every year, a large and long-standing antiques show sets up in a nearby school building. Dealers bring country furniture, some formal furniture, and accessories of all kinds, from pressed glass, lamps, and silver napkin rings to country store stuff, books,…
Dear Lee,After a spring-like January, we had a North Pole February with snow over 18 inches in our backyard drifts. We have been stuck in the house, so we cleaned cupboards and file drawers. We look wonderful in 1980s photographs-very…
Houses were decorated with special Christmas objects long before special dinner plates were made for the holiday. There are at least five states that claim they had the first American Christmas tree: Pennsylvania (1747), Massachusetts (1832), Illinois (1833) and Ohio…
Q: I have a Holt-Howard candleholder that's a figure of a girl in a yellow dress. I would like to know something about it. A: Holt-Howard was founded by John and Robert Howard and A. Grant Holt in Stamford, Conn., in…