AntiquesQ&A
Monday, October 24, 2016

A Romantic Tale

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QUESTION: Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved the look of Blue Willow china. My mother had a set that she brought out for special occasions...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Life in Miniature

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QUESTION: My sisters and I loved to play with dolls. My mother bought us each several sets of large doll furniture made by the Hall’s L...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Royal Botanicals

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QUESTION: A dealer at a high-end antique show had several unique pieces of porcelain dinnerware which he called Royal Copenhagen. Accordin...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Some Things to Occupy Your Time

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QUESTION: My mother has a large collection of figures stamped “Occupied Japan”—at last count over 200. Over the years, collecting them has...
Monday, August 29, 2016

The Mystique of Cobalt Blue

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QUESTION: I’ve always loved objects made of cobalt blue glass. The shimmer of the deep blue glass as the sunlight filtered through it used...
Monday, August 22, 2016

The Many Faces of Victorian Whimsy

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QUESTION: My great aunt left me a very unusual chair, probably because I admired it when I went to visit her. The chair has a grotesque fa...
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Monday, August 15, 2016

Surfs Up!

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Q UESTION: I recently found an old surfboard at an architectural salvage store. I’m not exactly sure what it was doing there, but I bought...
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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Monday, August 1, 2016

Little Keepsakes That Tell a Story

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QUESTION: I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended some of the events at the Olympic Games held here in 1996. During the games, I acquire...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Star Trek Keeps on Beaming

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QUESTION: I was digging around in my attic the other day and found a box with some old toys belonging to my son who now has his own fami...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Whatever Happened to Elsie the Cow?

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QUESTION: When I was a kid, I remember seeing Elsie the Cow all over the place. She appeared on all Borden dairy products, billboards, and...
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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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