Q: I bought a gold-colored metal sugar cube bowl at the French Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It has a mechanical sugar clamp that fits onto the top of the lid. The pusher at the top of…
One of our most popular features is “What’s It Wednesdays,” were we post pictures of unusual objects and ask readers to tell us “what is it”! Honestly, sometimes even WE are stumped, as evidenced by these top five, most-talked-about #whatsitwednesday…
Storage of valuable jewelry has been a problem since ancient times. Special dressing boxes or toilet cases, as they were called, were used by both men and women to hold toilet articles and jewelry by the 1700s. Only the well-to-do…
What started out as a whittling craft among European and American itinerant carvers more than 150 years ago is today a respected form of folk art known as "tramp art." Much of the respect today's experts and collectors give to…
The Jim Beam animal and fish decanters made to hold Jim Beam bourbon in the 1970s went out of favor with collectors in the early 1990s. The 10-bottle fish-decanter set was made to raise money for the Fishing Hall of…