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Thursday, August 31, 2023
The Teapot King
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Aladdin Teapot QUESTION: My mother was an avid tea drinker. When she was a young woman, she began buying old teapots at flea markets and ...
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Forecasting the Weather in Vane
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QUESTION: I’ve noticed that old weathervanes are bringing some pretty high prices at high-end Americana antique shows and in online antiq...
Monday, March 26, 2018
A Clock for Everyone's Mantel
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QUESTION: I fix up old houses. While cleaning up a house to resell recently, I discovered a heavy clock with pillars on the front that ...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The Most Printed Book of All Time
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QUESTION: Last year I purchased an old Bible at a church festival. It’s one of those big Victorian pictorial family ones and seems to ha...
Monday, August 22, 2016
The Many Faces of Victorian Whimsy
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QUESTION: My great aunt left me a very unusual chair, probably because I admired it when I went to visit her. The chair has a grotesque fa...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
19th Century Tupperware
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QUESTION: I recently won a box lot at a local auction. Inside the box I found what looks like a cup with an attached saucer. It’s heavy an...
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