QUESTION: Some time ago, I was browsing at a local flea market where I came upon a small decorated wooden box on one of the tables. The to...

QUESTION: How do I find out if items I have are really antiques?  Do dealers need pictures to come look at my pieces? How do I find hones...

QUESTION: Many years ago I purchased a snowglobe from the 1939 New York World’s Fair that contains a miniature Trylon and Perisphere. Wha...

QUESTION: On a recent trip to England, I came across some small ceramic objects with heraldic crests on them. At first I thought that th...

NOTE: On this day in 1939, the New York World's Fair was well underway. People flocked to it as if going to some sort of urban paradise....

QUESTION: My mother collected Statue of Liberty memorabilia for a long time. She began when she was only a teenager with a little statu...

QUESTION: I recently have become interested in possibly collecting ladies’ compacts. I see them at flea markets all the time and the pri...

QUESTION: When I was a kid, my parents used to take me to Atlantic City every summer. As I get older, my memories of those summer vacat...