After making a fortune selling soap, Elbert Hubbard decided that money was not the most important part of his life. He founded a community with workshops that made furniture, leather goods, metal ware, baskets, rugs and wood carvings. Hubbard and…
The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, recently purchased two sets of archives, one on Tiffany glass and the other on Lalique, that will be helpful to collectors and researchers. The Tiffany papers, which include the recipe for…
Folk art is just that—art made by common folks. There is no special age, no special type. It is anything unique made by an individual. Books about American folk art in the 1950s discussed 18th- and early 19th-century paintings by…
...continued Ralph collects cufflinks, and a dealer who specializes in sewing items and pottery told us he had a new batch of costume jewelry, including cufflinks. So he put all the links in a bag and sold them to Ralph…
Q: My latest find in bookends is a pair that looks like a woodcarving of Scotties. It has a 'Syrocowood' label. Do you know what it's made of? A: Syroco, spelled Syrocco by some collectors, is made of wood 'flour,'…
Prisoner-of-war art objects of the 19th century are often elaborate ship models made of tiny pieces of wood and ivory. Prisoner arts and crafts made in the 20th century include ship models made from matchsticks, and purses and belts made…