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Featured Interviews
How To Build a Killer Baseball Memorabilia Collection: Scouting the Minors With Dave Bloomer
Like most people my age—I'm 48—when I was growing up, baseball memorabilia meant baseball cards. The great thing about baseball cards at that time was that there was only one company, Topps, so not only could you collect, you also stood a good chance of getting all the cards that were available. Most people who h… (more »)
Secrets of the Blue Note Vault: Michael Cuscuna on Monk, Blakey, and the One That Got Away
When I was a jazz DJ in Philadelphia, Blue Note was always my favorite label. Naturally I had a lot of jazz-musician friends, and many of them told me that they’d played in a lot of Blue Note sessions that were never released. I started to keep a list of these sessions in a little notebook, and in 1973 I started … (more »)
Your Turntable Is Not Dead: Inside Jack White's Vinyl Record Empire
When the White Stripes got signed, Jack White created Third Man Records as an insurance policy. With the White Stripes and, later on, Whirlwind Heat and the Raconteurs, the bands only licensed their music to record companies—the labels didn’t really own it. So in case things went sour, Third Man was a way for Jac… (more »)
An Interview With Antique Stock Certificate Collector Gary Rose
I got interested in stock certificates by happenstance, really. I collected stamps at one point, and sold my collection to put a down payment on the house. I tried to get back into stamp collecting by going to an auction a year or two later, and ended up not buying any stamps. But at the end of the auction, I bou… (more »)
An Interview With Antique Wood Camera Collector Rob Niederman
How did I start collecting cameras? Actually, I had an interest in photography as a kid and owned a darkroom by the age of 12 or 13. My interest in photography grew. I spent lots of time in a Chicago gallery learning about black and white photographs by the old masters and was very fortunate to study with Ansel… (more »)
An Interview with Vintage Shoe Collector Jonathan Walford
I moved to Toronto in the early 1980s because I wanted to work at the Royal Ontario Museum, which had a costume and textiles department. A job came up at the Bata Shoe Museum, so I ended up working there as the assistant curator and then as curator. Shoes were thrust upon me; they were not something I initially c… (more »)
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Fruit Jars
The evolution of fruit or canning jars parallels the science of food preservation, which itself was an attempt to address a critical ne… (more Antique Fruit Jars (Canning Jars))
Costume Jewelry
Costume jewelry, which is also known as fashion jewelry, surged in popularity starting in the 1920s, and is still hugely popular today.… (more Vintage Costume Jewelry)
Indian Head Cents
The Indian Head cent, or Indian Head Penny, was designed by James Barton Longacre and struck from 1859 until 1909. It was minted in bot… (more Indian Head Pennies)