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Cameras and Co

Cameras and Co

An impressive collection of antique and vintage cameras, this site features high-resolution images of over 120 cameras used from 1892 to 1999. The gallery includes images of cameras by manufacturers such as... Read More or Visit Site

Rene Rondeau's Antique Phonograph Museum

Rene Rondeau

A collector since age 12, René Rondeau's site showcases the early history of recorded sound, with great photos and detail of late 1800s/early 1900s recording machines. The site covers tinfoil, cylinder and... Read More or Visit Site

Thimbleselect of Australia

Thimbleselect of Australia

Sue Gowan's impressive thimbles reference database. Using the left-side navigation, choose 'Learn More About' and select thimbles. You'll get to an index page linking to pages with seemingly thousands of... Read More or Visit Site

Market Street Railway

Market Street Railway

This website is the virtual companion to the entirely functional, outdoor museum of vintage streetcars serving riders on the streets of San Francisco. It includes great illustrations of PCC and other vintage... Read More or Visit Site

Beast Coins

Beast Coins

Yes, Zach Beasley’s Beast Coins website features numerous pages devoted to coins with bears and other beasts on them, but the bulk of the site offers a rich array of ancient and world coins, most of which... Read More or Visit Site

The Coins of Colonial and Early America

The Coins of Colonial and Early America

A wealth of information about colonial coinage! Features images and in-depth essays about a wide range of colonial coins, from issues used during the Revolutionary War to British, French, and Dutch coins used... Read More or Visit Site

American Watch Company Web

American Watch Company Web

Tom McIntyre’s reference site on antique watches, especially those made by the American Watch Company (later known as the Waltham Watch Co.). See detailed photos and descriptions of watches by makers like... Read More or Visit Site

Picos Pigs

Picos Pigs

This stunning and well-catalogued collection of toy piggy banks, put online by Flavio Del Greco and Alvise Felici (originally in Italian) is nothing to snort at. The collection includes 750 pigs crafted in... Read More or Visit Site

Gruen: The Art and Mystery of Watchmaking

Gruen: The Art and Mystery of Watchmaking

Paul Schliesser's elegant site offers a comprehensive history of the Gruen Watch Company of Ohio. The easy-to-navigate site is divided into sections, each representing a significant turning point in the... Read More or Visit Site

Alphabetilately

Alphabetilately

First shown in 2008 to celebrate the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's 15th anniversary, Alphabetilately is essentially a giant glossary of stamp collecting, 'from advertising covers through Zeppelin Post.'... Read More or Visit Site

Thepotteries.org

Thepotteries.org

Steve Birks' super deep site is a tribute to a bygone era, chronicling how a pottery center of excellence (they didn't call it that at the time) developed over the centuries in the six English towns of... Read More or Visit Site

Clockhistory.com

Clockhistory.com

Bill Stoddard's clock history site offers a trove of great reference information on clock and watch makers including Westclox, Seth Thomas, Telechron, Standard Electric Time Co., New Haven Westinghouse,... Read More or Visit Site