QUESTION: I recently bought what I thought was a Tiffany lamp. I paid several hundred dollars for it and thought it was a steal. Now I'...

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...

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: I love to collect things. But my passion for collecting seems to be getting out of hand. How can I control this? And how can I ...

QUESTION: My grandfather gave my parents a wooden child’s chair, covered with letters, that he had when he was a kid for me to use. I reme...

QUESTION: My grandmother just gave me a flat basket that smells as sweet as new-mown hay. She said it belonged to her mother but isn’t sur...

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...

You’ve figured out a numbering system and assigned numbers to the items in your collection. The next step is to apply them to your objects...

QUESTIONS: I love collecting things and have been doing it a long time. But I now find I really don’t know exactly what I have. Can you g...

QUESTION: I love old boxes and want to start a box collection. But where do I begin? What sort of boxes are highly collectible? ANSWER:...

QUESTION: My great grandmother passed down a rectangular basket that, according to family legend, she purchased up country from a Shaker w...

QUESTION: My husband and I recently discovered an antique wardrobe at a house sale and fell in love with it. We purchased it but have no ...

QUESTION: I recently came across an old Coca Cola wall calendar from 1913. It’s in reasonably good shape. Can you tell me anything a...

QUESTION: I recently purchased a very thin summer quilt with a sunburst pattern. It really brightens up my day to see the sun spread ou...

QUESTION: We’ve been using an old R.C. Allen cash register in our clock and watch repair shop for at least three generations. It still wor...

QUESTION: I have several old cast-iron doorstops that I’ve picked up here and there over the years. I wouldn’t go so far as say that I ha...

QUESTION: We just purchased an old farm house and barn. The barn has an old weather vane mounted on top of a cupola on the roof. My husban...

QUESTION: I recently began to collect old bottles. I found and bought an old blue glass bottle with what looks like a spout at a flea mark...

QUESTION: I’ve been collecting antiques and such for a number of years. Do I need extra insurance or will my homeowner’s policy cover wh...

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...