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Showing posts with label tin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tin. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Buckets of Fun at the Seashore

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  QUESTION: As I was browsing a local antique mall, I noticed an old tin sand pail sitting on a shelf along with a variety of other old toys...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Affordable Italian Majolica

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  QUESTION: Recently, I’ve fallen in love with Italian majolica pottery. While some consider it garish, I find the colorful motifs upliftin...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

It's All in the Packaging

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  QUESTION: I’ve been fascinated with food containers, especially old ones since I was a young adult. When I go to the supermarket, I’m ama...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Happy 10th Anniversary

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QUESTION: I’ve been working on my family’s genealogy and was going through some boxes of documents and such that have been passed down fo...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels

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QUESTION: I was recently cleaning out drawers in my mother’s house after her death and came across a bunch of coins with the slogan “Mi...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Sweets from a Queen

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QUESTION: I have an old tin candy box with a picture of the Queen Mary on the front. It says on the side that the box contains candies mad...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Shining Like a Jewel

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QUESTION: My mother had a collection of ruby glass that she left to me. She would always display it around the Christmas holidays. To thi...
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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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