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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
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 started collecting Roycroft around 1992 when I visited the Peter Roberts Gallery in New York City. That was sort of the peak of the Arts and Crafts mania and there were man… 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
When I was around 10, my grandfather passed away, and my dad brought home his Victrola and stuck it under the stairs in the basement. He didn’t want it or care about it. It… 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
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 collecting jewelry when I was about 13 years old. I was very close to an interior designer who took me to antiques shops. While she looked for paintings and objects… Read more
I bought my first piece of jewelry—a gold ring with a big lapis stone propped on prongs—when I was about 12 with money my grandfather gave me. Then, as a teenager, I work… 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
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
What are vintage magic posters? Posters of magicians printed by the stone lithography method qualify as vintage magic posters. The stone lithography process was in it hig… 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
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 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
I don’t remember the first Rookwood piece I ever bought, that’s getting close to 40 years ago. But I must have liked it, because I kept studying and learning, and it’s … Read more
Wood wall-mounted telephones were the first phones put into wide circulation following Alexander Graham Bell's invention in 1876. … (more)
Art Nouveau sterling, like most items of the period, is distinguished by asymmetrical organic patterns, as well as motifs of neocl… (more)
$152.46 Ends Sunday 1 bid 
2 watchersArt Nouveau architecture, furniture, jewelry, and graphics took their inspiration from the curving shapes and flowing lines of flo… (more)
$1,326 Ends Tuesday 11 bids 38 watchersIn 1893, the Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania began producing pocket watches primarily for railroad workers. Rail… (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)
Frank Lloyd Wright, the influential American architect, pioneered new designs during the Arts and Crafts period which mirrored man… (more)
Founded by Reinhold Schlegelmilch in what is now Suhl, Germany, R.S. Prussia produced ornate and floral porcelain objects for expo… (more)
Tobacco (cigarette) cards became commonplace in the mid 1800s and hit the height of their popularity in the early 20th century. Or… (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)
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)
Candlestick telephones, also known to collectors as 'upright desk stands', gained popularity in the 1890s as the telephone became … (more)
Hatpins reached a peak of popularity between the 1890s and 1920s, as music hall actresses like Lillian Russell and Lillian Langtry… (more)
The mission oak style became popular in the early 1900s as part of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Some of the most famous … (more)
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