Children like scooter toys
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Children have always liked toys that can move and make noise and look like something from the adult world. Victor Bonnet was a French toymaker working after 1919 ... Continue Reading →
Victorian Christmas toys are collectible
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Christmas toys were popular in Victorian times. Hundreds of different family card and board games were manufactured and sold. Today they are collectible as complete ... Continue Reading →
American Windsor chairs first made around 1730
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The Windsor chair was introduced in England in the late 17th century, and it was about 50 years later, around 1730, that the first American Windsor chairs were ... Continue Reading →
Unique shape adds value to match holder
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Antique shoppers must learn the vocabulary of collectibles to read catalogs, make online searches and understand words with double meanings like commode (dresser) ... Continue Reading →
Mermaid lamp holds two light fixtures
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Mermaids and mermen have been “seen” and pictured since the Babylonian era. In past centuries, Greece, Japan, Ireland, Russia and Scotland have believed in local ... Continue Reading →
Metallic postcard couldn’t go in the mail
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Postcards are among the most popular inexpensive collectibles today, perhaps because they are easy to find. But they require time and searching to create a special ... Continue Reading →
Few early clay bird whistles remain
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“I bought a wooden whistle, but it wouldn’t whistle” is part of an old children’s song that goes on to joke about buying a metal whistle. But a ... Continue Reading →
‘Adam style’ developed by two brothers
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The auction described the settee as “in the Adam taste,” but an online search for the words won’t explain what that means. When it says “Chippendale ... Continue Reading →
‘Snail’ Inkwell dates to 1800s
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In ancient Egypt, a rich man would not write his own letters but would travel with a scribe who wrote his letters for him. The scribe used a crude pen that had ... Continue Reading →
Jack-o-Lantern among popular Halloween antiques
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Halloween is the second most popular holiday among collectors of holiday memorabilia. Christmas comes first. But Halloween decorations are in such demand ... Continue Reading →
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