QUESTION:  My great grandmother left me a beautiful Oriental carpet runner. My grandmother said it is quite old, but I’m not sure by how mu...

QUESTION: My mother loved to collect souvenir spoons. She had over 100 of them. She recently died and now I have these spoons. One of the...

QUESTION: My grandmother has what she calls a “Larkin” desk. It doesn’t look like a normal desk but more like a tall oak bookshelf with a...

QUESTION:  I have what I believe to be an English ceramic plate with a mark that looks like a diamond with a bunch of letters and numbers ...

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: I love to go to flea markets and root around in the cases of small items that some dealers have on their tables. I never know w...

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: I have inherited a cookie jar from my mother's estate, our family home outside Philadelphia. The cookie jar is marked on th...

QUESTION: I have been doing research on some antiques I have, as I plan to open a booth in a local antique mall soon. I have a Watt oven ...