Category: Vintage Horse Postcards
Horses and ponies are beloved for their beauty, speed, and grace, but they've also played an important role in American history. They w… Go to horse postcards
Category: Antique and Vintage Horses
Horses are among the first animals depicted in art. Outlines of what appear to be Asiatic Wild Horses on the walls of the Chauvet Cave … Go to horses
Category: Firefighting Antiques
Firefighters save lives with the help of countless tools—fire extinguishers, helmets, fire trucks, and hoses, to name but a few. Many o… Go to firefighting
Category: Antique and Vintage Accessories
All clothes protect the body from the elements, but dressing with flair and style is a way of announcing one’s taste and standing in so… Go to fashion accessories
Category: Vintage Bags
Whether it's the alligator briefcase your dad carried in the 1960s or the kid leather Chanel clutch your mom took with her to meet him … Go to bags
Category: Antique Railroad China
Railroad china, like railroad silver, was a product of the boom in comfort offered to train passengers in the last part of the 19th cen… Go to railroad china
Category: Vintage Circus Posters and Ephemera
With the debut of the modern traveling circus in the early 1800s, circus posters became crucial tools for drawing crowds to what were o… Go to circus posters and ephemera
Category: Antique and Vintage Chess Sets
Few board games can claim the same breadth of history as chess, which spans the globe, transcending borders and languages. It is taugh… Go to chess sets
Category: Antique and Vintage Cribbage Sets
To understand the card game cribbage, one needs to understand its creator, 17th century Englishman John Suckling, who was widely consid… Go to cribbage sets
Category: Antique Bitters Bottles
Bitters are a form of patent or proprietary medicine made by steeping herbs, roots, and other spices in alcohol. They likely originated… Go to bitters bottles
Category: Vintage Santa Collectibles and Figurines
The modern-day American concept of "Santa Claus" emerged around 1863. Of course, the legend of an elderly, bearded winter gift-giver ap… Go to santa collectibles
Category: Vintage Reindeer Christmas Decorations
Santa Claus is thought to be a fusion of Catholic myths about Saint Nicholas and Norse pagan myths about the god Odin. Odin, disguised … Go to christmas reindeer
Category: Vintage Christmas Trees
Evergreen trees have been part of Germanic Christmas celebrations for centuries. Germans would traditionally cut off the top of a fir t… Go to christmas trees
Category: Collectible and Vintage Christmas Bells
The tradition of ringing bells at Christmas evolved from an ancient pagan winter rite in which people rang bells or made noise to frigh… Go to christmas bells
Category: Postal Antiques
Before email, cable news, telephones, or even the telegraph, the postal service was the social network for millions of people, distribu… Go to postal antiques
Category: Vintage Tin Signs
When tin advertising signs first appeared in the U.S. around the beginning of the 19th century, they were hand-painted, making them rel… Go to tin signs
Category: Vintage Deere Tractors
There are few things as American as a John Deere tractor. “Nothing runs like a Deere” is one of the most recognizable marketing slogans… Go to john deere tractors
Category: Vintage Farmall Tractors
Under the leadership of Cyrus McCormick and Charles Deering, the International Harvester Company was born from a merger between the McC… Go to farmall tractors
Category: Tin Model Cars and Vehicles
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 tech… Go to tin model cars
Category: Antique Pedal Cars
Pedal cars for children first appeared in the late 1880s, when Karl Benz introduced his three-wheel Patent Motorwagen for adults. By th… Go to pedal cars
