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The Lampworks

The Lampworks

Lamp collector and dealer Dan Edminster has put together an incredible reference site on antique lamps and related accessories like shades, burners and chimneys. Start with the site map and then work your way... Read More or Visit Site

Old Fashioned Piggy Banks

Old Fashioned Piggy Banks

Gert Deelman's site showcases a wonderful and diverse collection of clay and porcelain piggy banks from Europe, U.K., The Netherlands, and Mexico. What's unique about Gert's 900 or so piggy banks is that none... Read More or Visit Site

M31 Galaxy of Transistor Radios

M31 Galaxy of Transistor Radios

Robert Davidson's great site (galaxy, really), one of the earliest transistor radio sites on the web, features over 380 pages of stunning high res photos and super cool graphics and ephemera related to... Read More or Visit Site

International Arcade Museum

International Arcade Museum

This site boasts more than 13,000 pages of educational content on arcade and coin-op collecting, including innumerable photos of vintage pinball machines, slot machines, video games and jukeboxes. Browse by... Read More or Visit Site

Milk Glass Collectors Society

Milk Glass Collectors Society

This excellent milk glass reference site is definitely not for the lactose intolerant. Includes seven high resolution photo galleries of milk glass items (plus descriptions), a milk glass FAQ page, a page of... Read More or Visit Site

George Hunzinger Furniture

George Hunzinger Furniture

Scott Geyer's blog on the innovative Victorian furniture designs of George Jacob Hunzinger, who began manufacturing furniture in New York City in 1855. Geyer posts pictures of and commentary on dozens of... Read More or Visit Site

Texans Incorporated: The History of a Lamp Company

Texans Incorporated: The History of a Lamp Company

Mark Stevens has created an impressive living memorial to Texans Inc., a 20th century Texas manufacturer of ceramic lamps including TV lamps. Originally intended as a book focusing on lamp designer Howard... Read More or Visit Site

Folk Art in Bottles

Folk Art in Bottles

Whether you call them Bottle Whimseys, Whimsey Bottles, Puzzle Bottles, or Whimsies, this site showcases great folk art carvings in bottles dating from the mid 1800s through the present. If you ever wondered... Read More or Visit Site

Ad Access

Ad Access

Duke University's library has pulled together an impressive collection of over 7,000 ads printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad Access concentrates on five main subject... Read More or Visit Site

MyVintageVogue

MyVintageVogue

The history of 20th-century women’s fashion largely played out in the pages of magazines such as “Harper’s Bazaar” and “Vogue.” Jessica Hastings has made it her mission to bring that history to... Read More or Visit Site

Antique and 19th Century Cameras

Antique and 19th Century Cameras

Rob Niederman’s homage to (and collection of) late 19th century wood cameras. This site contains extensive galleries with detailed information on the early wood, brass, and leather view cameras, multi-lens... Read More or Visit Site

National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum

Check out this sampling of nautical and maritime items held by the U.K.'s National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Includes navigational instruments, charts and maps, flags, ship models,... Read More or Visit Site