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1890s Related Articles

An Interview With American Cut Glass Collector Barbara Meek

I started collecting cut glass when I was about 18. My sisters were married, and during the summer, I would go out and stay with them in the Midwest and work. That was back i… Read more

An Interview With Antique and Vintage Typewriter Collector Richard Polt

I started to get interested in typewriters around age 12. My dad and I stopped at a garage sale and he bought me this typewriter from the 1930s, and I was just learning to ty… Read more

An Interview With Art Glass Collector Reyne Haines

I started becoming interested in art glass when I moved from Texas to New York, and wanted to decorate my apartment with New York-type things, things I had never seen in … Read more

An Interview With Early American Pattern Glass Collector Elaine Henderson

My mother was our inspiration for collecting pattern glass. She collected it, and she died at a very young age. My sister and I inherited it and my aunt said not to sell anyt… Read more

An Interview With Victorian Trade Card Collector Ben Crane

How did I start collecting Victorian trade cards? In the late 60s I was a bottle collector, early American bottles and flasks. I started noticing there were colorful trade ca… Read 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 … Read more

An Interview With Arts and Crafts Silver and Jewelry Collector Paul Somerson

[caption id="attachment_437" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Sterling Silver Kalo pitcher with monogram"][/caption] How did I get started collecting Arts and Craft… Read more

An Interview With Silver Bookmark Collector Howie Schecter

[caption id="attachment_2513" align="alignright" width="216" caption="American made by S Kirk & Sons 1921 - 1940"][/caption] I’m a packrat, so in 1995, I was itching t… Read more

An Interview With Antique Advertising and Porcelain Sign Collector Alex Renshaw

[caption id="attachment_729" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Muratti's New Ladies Flat 10 Cigarette Tin, 1900"][/caption] How did I get started collecting adve… Read more

Guest Column: Collecting Early Typewriters of the Late 1800s

Collecting antique typewriters circa 1900 has been a wonderful experience for me over the years. My collection is really just the tip of the iceberg, as literally hundreds of… Read more

An Interview With Loetz Art Glass Collector Eddy Scheepers

Loetz was a Bohemian company. It was a factory; and the region’s biggest and best glass manufacturer. There were other contemporaries like Kralik, Rindskopf, and Pallme-Konig… Read more

An Interview With Antique Pocket Watch Collector Barry S. Goldberg

[caption id="attachment_426" align="alignright" width="250" caption="16 size Hamilton model "992" Railroad dial"][/caption] I got started collecting pocket watch… Read more

An Interview With Victorian Furniture Collector John Werry

How did I get started collecting Victorian Furniture? Antiques is in my genes, my mother's family were longtime antiquers and lived in a house built in the 18th Century. But … Read more

What All These Hatpins Were For, and Why We Stopped Using Them

[caption id="attachment_929" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Satsuma hatpin: made in Japan out of ceramic and hand painted"][/caption] Originally my husband and I … Read more

1890s Related Categories

French Dolls

About 1850, French craftsmen dollmakers started a trend that all others would follow: the Bebe. Until that time, most dolls were m… (more)

Regulator Clocks

Regulator clocks, sometimes referred to as pendulum clocks, were invented in the late 18th century in a quest for greater timekeep… (more)

Trade Cards

Victorian trade cards are an early form of collectible advertising. Popularized after the Civil War by businesses, they offer a co… (more)

Pocket Watches

Pocket watch use peaked in the late 19th century as a wave of investment went into pocket watch design and manufacture. This was b… (more)

Early American Pattern Glass

Early American Pattern Glass (EAPG), also known as pressed glass, was produced from roughly 1850 to 1910. Cheaper to manufacture t… (more)

Candlestick Telephones

Candlestick telephones, also known to collectors as 'upright desk stands', gained popularity in the 1890s as the telephone became … (more)

Arts and Crafts

The Arts and Crafts movement that swept the United States and Great Britain from roughly 1880 to 1920 was a response to the indust… (more)

R.S. Prussia China

Founded by Reinhold Schlegelmilch in what is now Suhl, Germany, R.S. Prussia produced ornate and floral porcelain objects for expo… (more)

Tobacco Tins

Tobacco tins first came into popular use in the mid 1800's, and can be found in a wide range of styles, including figural tins, ba… (more)

Hatpins and Hatpin Holders

Hatpins reached a peak of popularity between the 1890s and 1920s, as music hall actresses like Lillian Russell and Lillian Langtry… (more)

Cut Glass

While cut glass has been produced for thousands of years, it reached a peak of popularity during the late 19th century in the so-c… (more)

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau architecture, furniture, jewelry, and graphics took their inspiration from the curving shapes and flowing lines of flo… (more)

Wood Cameras

Even before the first 19th century cameras were produced, wood was used for their predecessor, the camera obscura, to keep the ins… (more)

Art Nouveau Sterling Silver

In the 1880s and 1890s, a new style spread across Europe and the United States—Art Nouveau. Unlike the austere Art Deco that event… (more)

Loetz Art Glass

Loetz was the premier Bohemian art glass manufacturer during the Art Nouveau period (or Jugendstil, as it was called in German-spe… (more)

Morgan Silver Dollars

The Morgan silver dollars of 1878 to 1904 and 1921 are probably the most collected U.S. coins other than Lincoln cents. Designed b… (more)



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