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WE'RE GOING TO THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW!
Can't wait ~ and having a dickens of a time deciding what to take! Too many treasures!
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Vintage Guru Reveals Her Glamour Secrets
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intage can be intimidating. It's certainly not as simple as going to the mall, finding your size, and buying a mass-produced outfit. You have to dig through racks and racks of wildly diverse items, with mysterious sizing, looking for…
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a wo…
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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The Beautiful Chaos of Improvisational Quilts
What would jazz look like if it had a physical presence? According to Sherry Ann Byrd, a celebrated quilt maker who posts on Show & Tell, it might look something like the hand-made "M-provisational" q…
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Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of …
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This 1959 Goggomobil Is Insanely Cute and Gets 55 MPG. Why Can’t Detroit Do That?
The last time we spoke to Justin Pinchot, he took us on a guided tour of his collection of toy robots. Recently, J…
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin
When Bob Meistrell started surfing in Northern California during the early 1950s, 20 minutes was about all he could stand in the frigid coastal waters. Despite the constant rush of …
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The Unfiltered History of Rolling Papers, Plus Tommy Chong's Big Fat Jamaican Vacation
It’s kind of ironic that Tommy Chong, the smokiest half of Cheech and Chong, i…
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Collectibles
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World's Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects
Tucked away in a lower Manhattan back alley, the freight-elevator-sized, generically named Museum is one of New York City's newest curiosities.…
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Fightin’ Femmes: Unmasking Female Superheroes with Author Mike Madrid
When I was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, reading comics wasn't as popular as it had been in the ’40s or ’50s. But my older sister had comics, including a big collection of “Betty and Veronica.” Our parents encouraged us to read everything, so at 6 years old…
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Ticket StubsTicket stubs cut across a wide variety of collecting interests. They are so…
Advertising TinsThe widespread practice of packing food in tin cans and containers was a di…
Uh... I guess, Jason, but the wifey & I aren't really morning people and we live over an hour away. Should have opted for the noon admit. (sigh)
Do they give you the bum's rush once you have shown your stuff or can you linger?
Thanks for that great discription, Jason!
Did they have the 'Feedback Booth' there ~ how was that handled? Could everyone do it or was there an 'audition'?
Was it real regimented? Do you have to hold your place in those lines, or could you wander & talk to the other folks in the line to see what they had?
Assuming you weren't picked for filming with an appraiser, did you see anyone who was? Did it take long to get them thru that process? Do they do make-up and the whole magilla?
Not that I think anything we have is film worthy, but my family won't let me hear the end of it if they can't at least get a glimpse of us standing in the background. They all applied for tickets, but we were the only ones who got 'em.
Have another set of thanks, Jason! Yep, that was interesting and informative.
Looks like we beat the odds... one in ten applications gets a ticket? It only took six apps for us to get ours (great to have family) and my brother in Denver is the one that actually scored them. I think we will be spending most of our time in the folk art and toys lines.