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Originally my husband and I collected cylinder phonographs, but after you acquire a few of them and their stands, you soon run out of room. So, I was looking for something sm… Read more
I got started collecting pocket watches partly because I hated wearing wristwatches; I used to carry my wristwatch in my pocket, so I thought; why not just try getting a pock… Read more
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 spen… Read more
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 Hous… Read more
How did I get started collecting Arts and Crafts silver? My wife and I had been collecting Arts and Crafts items as far back as I can remember, mostly furniture and tiles. On… Read more
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
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-Kon… Read more
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
I’m a packrat, so in 1995, I was itching to collect something. I went around to local flea markets here because they’ve got the Rose Bowl Flea Market and the one in Long … Read more
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
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
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
How did I get started collecting advertising antiques? My dad was a lecturer and tutor in graphics and art from the 1960s onwards, and was into vintage automobiles and advert… Read more
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
Victorian trade cards are an early form of collectible advertising. Popularized after the Civil War by businesses, they offer a co… (more)
Art Nouveau architecture, furniture, jewelry, and graphics took their inspiration from the curving shapes and flowing lines of flo… (more)
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)
Founded by Reinhold Schlegelmilch in what is now Suhl, Germany, R.S. Prussia produced ornate and floral porcelain objects for expo… (more)
Even before the first 19th century cameras were produced, wood was used for their predecessor, the camera obscura, to keep the ins… (more)
Hatpins reached a peak of popularity between the 1890s and 1920s, as music hall actresses like Lillian Russell and Lillian Langtry… (more)
The Morgan silver dollars of 1878 to 1904 and 1921 are probably the most collected U.S. coins other than Lincoln pennies. Designed… (more)
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$6,100 Ends Sunday 31 bids 24 watchersRegulator clocks, sometimes referred to as pendulum clocks, were invented in the late 18th century in a quest for greater timekeep… (more)
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)
Loetz was the premier Bohemian art glass manufacturer during the Art Nouveau period (or Jugendstil, as it was called in German-spe… (more)
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)
Candlestick telephones, also known to collectors as 'upright desk stands', gained popularity in the 1890s as the telephone became … (more)
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)
Art Nouveau sterling, like most items of the period, is distinguished by asymmetrical organic patterns, as well as motifs of neocl… (more)
Early American Pattern Glass (EAPG), also known as pressed glass, was mostly produced from 1850 to 1910, made in a cast-iron mold … (more)
About 1850, French craftsmen dollmakers started a trend that all others would follow: the Bebe. Until that time, most dolls were m… (more)
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