From piggy banks to cookie jars, pigs are a fixture in many Western homes. Common household pigs include wooden folk art sculptures, kitschy salt and pepper shakers, Steiff toys, and a host of figurines, particularly ceramic ones in everything from porcelain to majolica and glass ones made by the likes of Fenton, Cambridge, and Heisey.
Interviews & Articles
Before Sesame Street and Electric Mayhem, a Crude Kermit Lip Synced Pop Standards

When "The Muppets" storms the world’s multiplexes this holiday season, there will no doubt be lots of little kids who, thanks to “… [more]
Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)
National Carousel Association

Since 1973, the National Carousel Association has been dedicated to preserving and restoring carousels and carousel… [read review or visit site]
The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes

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