QUESTION: I first became introduced to little butter dishes, known as butter pats, while browsing tables at a local flea market. Most of ...

QUESTION: An uncle of mine collected Victorian silverware. All the pieces he had—some 400–were from the same pattern, Renaissance. One day...

QUESTION: I recently purchased an odd sort of butter churn at a local antique show. It’s a horizontal container suspended by straps to a ...

QUESTION: My mother died recently and left me, among other things, her set of Autumn Leaf china.  When I was a kid, I remember her settin...