Category: Antique and Vintage Jewelry
From delicate, Victorian filigree necklaces to loud, diamond-studded chokers designed by jeweler to the stars Harry Winston, pieces of … Go to fine jewelry
Category: Baseball Cards
A lot of men have been known to cringe when they recall the childhood games they played with their baseball cards. One of the most popu… Go to baseball cards
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: Antique Fruit and Canning Jars
The evolution of fruit or canning jars parallels the science of food preservation, which itself was an attempt to address a critical ne… Go to fruit jars
Category: Antique Cartes-De-Visite Photographs
Carte-de-visite, or CDV, is French for "visiting card" or calling card. That's because when a French daguerreotypist named André Adolph… Go to cartes-de-visite
Category: Antique and Vintage Dining Chairs
In Europe, chairs were relatively uncommon until the 17th century. Before that time, kings, queens, and even clergymen enjoyed elaborat… Go to dining chairs
Category: Antique French Silver
Normally when we think of antique sterling silver we think of England, where the tradition of hallmarking the metal for quality control… Go to french silver
Category: Antique and Vintage Ashtrays
Even though the practice of smoking tobacco has been around since the 16th century, cigarettes did not achieve widespread popularity un… Go to ashtrays
Category: Antique Meerschaum Pipes
Meerschaum is found in a handful of places around the world, but the most famous source for the stone is in and around the city of Eski… Go to meerschaum pipes
Category: Art Glass Paperweights
Some of the earliest paperweights were made in Venice in the 1840s. They were gathered together out of scraps of latticino and other ty… Go to art glass paperweights
Category: Baccarat Art Glass
Founded in 1764 with the permission of Louis XV of France, Baccarat is an art glass manufacturer that has transcended eras and fashions… Go to baccarat art glass
Category: Eyeglasses and Spectacles
Reading spectacles appeared at the end of the 13th century in Italy and were first depicted in a painting by Tommaso da Modena in 1352.… Go to eyeglasses
Category: Limoges China
Even though the word Limoges (sometimes misspelled as "Limoge") is synonymous with fine bone china, it was not until the late 18th cent… Go to limoges china
Category: Vintage and Antique Cameos
Picture an antique cameo, and the first image that probably pops into your mind is a woman's profile carved out of white shell against … Go to cameos
Category: Vintage Designer Signed Jewelry
Part of the appeal of signed pieces of fine jewelry is the aura cast by their designers, who were often leaders in aesthetic originalit… Go to designer signed jewelry
Category: Costume Jewelry Parure
To constitute a true parure, a set of jewelry must have at least three matching items. A set with only earrings plus a necklace, brooch… Go to costume jewelry parure
Category: Cartier Wristwatches
Cartier was founded in 1847 when Louis-François Cartier, then an apprentice to Parisian jeweler Adolphe Picard, took over the business … Go to cartier watches
Category: Collectible Russian Coins
Russian coins from the 16th century to the end of the 20th track the rise and fall of numerous Czars, the Bolshevik revolution of 1917,… Go to russian coins
Category: Collectible French Coins
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, in 1795, France instituted a decimal monetary system in which the value of the franc was set… Go to french coins
Category: Collectible European Coins
Since 2002, European merchants have made change in cents clad in copper-plated steel or an alloy called Nordic gold, as well as in euro… Go to european coins
