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Guest Column: A History of Dimestore Christmas Village Houses

The following is a history of these wondrous little artifacts called cardboard Christmas village houses - a history devoted to establishing some way of categorizing them … Read more

An Interview With Sam Baker, Collector of Petroliana and Vintage Ford Cars and Signs

I’ve always had an old Ford Model A or something to tinker around with or play with. It may not have been on the road but I was always building or working on something. Aroun… Read more

Jim Potts on Vintage Petroliana

I became interested in Petroliana in a kind of roundabout way. I’ve been in the automotive repair business all my life, and have always liked cars and been interested in auto… Read more

Piecing Together the History of Jigsaw Puzzles

[caption id="attachment_632" align="alignright" width="339" caption="New Dissected Map of World ca. 1888"][/caption] What inspired me to collect old jigsaw puzzles? I grew… Read more

An Interview with Vintage Cigarette Lighter Collector Urban Cummings

[caption id="attachment_5211" align="alignright" width="350" caption="Ronson Touch-Tip with Cigarette Box 1939"][/caption] At the very beginning, my interest in lighters w… Read more

Guest Column: Understanding Antique Radios

You've just acquired an old radio, but apart from the manufacturer's name on the front, you don't know a blessed thing about it. Learning more about your radio may satisfy yo… Read more

An Interview With Antique Toy Model Car Collectors Ron Sturgeon and Rodney Ross

Ron Sturgeon: I had an automotive repair shop in about 1976 and spent a lot of time repairing Mercedes. About 1979 I decided to start collecting Mercedes toy cars. I was youn… Read more

Stuck on Comic Character Pinbacks

I started off collecting comics, and still do, but I’d been given a few early Disney pinbacks as a child and always thought they were interesting. In the early 1990s, I start… Read more

An Interview With Vintage Television Set Collector Steve McVoy

[caption id="attachment_650" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Murphy V136. Britain, 1949."][/caption] In the 1950s when I was a teenager I used to work for a televi… Read more

Guest Column: Collecting Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Cigarette lighter collecting is a hobby that never gets boring. Just by browsing eBay auctions for ten minutes, for example, I recently found a lighter shaped like a lion’s h… Read more

An Interview With Cowan Art Pottery Museum Curator Carol Jacobs

[caption id="attachment_5153" align="alignright" width="400" caption=""Spanish Dancers" by Elizabeth Anderson - 1927"][/caption] I’m the curator here at the muse… Read more

An Interview With Antique Clock Collector Bill Stoddard

How did I get interested in clocks? Something about them has always been ingrained in me. My mom’s father had a small collection of antique clocks and when I was a little boy… Read more

Archtops, Hollowbodies, and Jimi's Legacy

[caption id="attachment_1712" align="alignright" width="265" caption="1956 Gibson L-4C Acoustic Archtop"][/caption] I grew up in upstate New York in Rochester, and started… Read more

An Interview With Antique Glass Insulator Collector Ian Macky

[caption id="attachment_640" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Colbalt blue Hemingray"][/caption] I got interested in insulators when I lived in El Cajon and my neig… Read more

Guest Column: Trends in Fishing Tackle Collecting

I’ve been a collector of antique fishing tackle for over 20 years, and have been selling antique tackle in my shop since 1990. I collect all aspects of fishing memorabilia. I… Read more

Angry Chicken's Amy Karol on Sewing, Vintage Slips, and Her Apron Obsession

[caption id="attachment_1820" align="alignright" width="320" caption="McCalls vintage apron pattern"][/caption] I think I started collecting vintage aprons seriously proba… Read more

Why People Flip Over Vintage Pinball Machines

[caption id="attachment_8190" align="alignright" width="309" caption="Detail of back glass, Gottlieb Grand Slam, 1953."][/caption] I didn’t really get into to pinball mach… Read more

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Murano and Italian Art Glass

When people talk about Italian art glass, they are usually referring to the vases, paperweights, goblets, and decorative objects p… (more)

Ford Model A

Although Ford produced its first Model A in 1903, it was the 1927 model by that name which turned into a huge success, following i… (more)

Gas Pumps

The first gas pumps were built in the 1880's by the Bowser Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, followed in 1898 by pumps that could pu… (more)

Martin Guitars

When Levon Helm of The Band sang "I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead" in "The Weight," he wasn’t alluding to… (more)

Lalique Art Glass

Even though he is known today for his antique art glass, René Lalique (1860-1945) began his career in 1881 as a freelance jeweler.… (more)

Depression Glass

During the 1920s, 19th-century pattern-glass manufacturers such as McKee, Heisey, and Fostoria struggled as the real thing from Wa… (more)

Roseville Art Pottery

In 1890, George F. Young founded the Roseville Pottery Corporation in Roseville, Ohio, as a utility ware manufacturer. The move wa… (more)

Art Deco Clocks

Clock design was heavily influenced in the 1920s and ’30s by Art Deco, a machine-like aesthetic for a fast-paced industrial age. N… (more)

Insulators

Insulators were originally made to keep telegraph and telephone wires electrically insulated from wooden telephone poles (especial… (more)

Bakelite Costume Jewelry

Bakelite was an early plastic resin, developed by Leo Baekeland in 1907. Originally used for industrial purposes thanks to its abi… (more)

Franciscan Dinnerware

First offered in 1934 by Gladding-McBean and Company in California, Franciscan ware designs were largely floral. One Franciscan st… (more)

Shirley Temple Dolls

In the 1930s, lovable Shirley Temple became a symbol of happiness and hope in the midst of the Great Depression. A wave of merchan… (more)

78 Records

Before iTunes, CDs, 8-tracks, LPs, or even seven-inch EPs, 78s were the main medium for recorded music, so-called because they wer… (more)

Coca-Cola Trays

The Coca-Cola Company began distributing tin serving and change trays to soda fountains in 1897. Trays produced from that date unt… (more)

Philco Radios

The Philadelphia Storage Battery Company was organized from the Helios Manufacturing Company in July 1906, with Frank S. Marr as i… (more)

Putz Village Christmas Houses

The tradition of building miniature Christmas village landscapes (‘putz’), including houses, animals and other hand-crafted wooden… (more)

Fishing Lures

Fishing lures have been around about as long as prehistoric humans have contrived ways to catch fish. The earliest, prehistoric lu… (more)

1920s and 1930s Womens Clothing

After the tight corsets and long-flowing dresses of the Edwardian Era, the 1920s was a decade of liberation for women. The most im… (more)

Fishing Licenses

Many states used small badges for anglers and hunters from the teens through the 1940s. Some issued license holders after the 40s,… (more)

Milk Bottles

For many young people today, the milkman must seem like some creaky myth from the past. In fact, it wasn’t all that long ago that … (more)

Art Deco

Art Deco was an international design and art movement in the 1920s and ’30s. Influenced by sources as varied as the Bauhaus School… (more)

Bakelite and Catalin Radios

When many people think of plastic Art Deco radios, the word Bakelite immediately comes to mind. That’s understandable enough, sinc… (more)

Lou Gehrig Memorabilia

Lou Gehrig, known affectionately by fans as “The Iron Horse,” was one of the most popular professional baseball players of all tim… (more)

Lobby Cards

In the days before multiplexes, movie theaters generally only had one screen and one movie. To boost ticket sales, studios printed… (more)

Tin Model Cars

Prior to the mid-19th century, toy model cars and trucks were generally made by hand from wood or thick card stock. As sheet-metal… (more)

Aladdin Lamps

At the turn of the 20th century, light was still considered a somewhat supernatural commodity. Edison’s light bulb remained a work… (more)



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