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Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts
Saturday, July 6, 2024

What's All the Fanfare?

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  QUESTION: I was digging around in my mother’s attic the other day and discovered a flat box containing two very beautiful fans. I imagine...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Beauty and Strength from Paper

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  QUESTION: When I think of papier-maché, I remember my days in school art classes soaking strips of paper in a mixture of flour and water f...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Finding the Way Around the World

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QUESTION:  I’ve always liked maps. When I was a teen, I read the road maps when my family went on road trips. Then later, while taking a wor...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Early Bank Notes Reveal a History of Our Country

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QUESTION: My dad collected old currency and coins. Some of the currency is quite old and doesn’t look anything like today’s money. What c...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Keepsakes, Not Throwaways

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QUESTION: Sometime ago I purchased a box of colorful decorative holiday cutouts and imprints. Many of the designs feature St. Nicholas an...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Captured in Silhouette

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QUESTION: I found this delightful little silhouette at a recent antique show. I’ve seen them in books but know nothing about them. What ar...
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Bob Brooke
Writing has been my life and my work for the last 30 years. During that time, I've had the opportunity to explore a variety of subjects, researching many of them on travels to over 70 countries. I’ve also been an avid collector of antiques and collectibles and specialize in writing about antiques. My antiques articles have appeared in many antiques and consumer publications, including British Heritage, AntiqueWeek, American Antiquities Journal, and Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine. I have also published two books on antiques, How to Start Your Own Antiques Business in Your Home and Recognizing and Refinishing Antiques for Pleasure and Profit, both from Globe Pequot Press. Throughout my writing career, I've produced nearly 4,000 articles and 15 books. I write non-fiction because I feel that fact is infinitely more interesting than fiction. However, in one of my latest books, Shipwrecks and Buried Treasure: The Outer Banks from Globe Pequot Press, I crossed the boundary between nonfiction and fiction, writing an historical narrative of the harrowing disasters in the seas off North Carolina.
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